Downtown & Main Street
Downtown Las Cruces was remade in the 1960s and again since: Main Street is open to cars once more, the farmers’ market fills the mall twice a week, and the city’s museums sit within a few blocks.
Discover Downtown & Main Street
In the 1960s an urban-renewal project tore down a large part of the original downtown, including St. Genevieve’s Catholic Church of 1859, to make a pedestrian mall. A six-block stretch of Main Street was closed to traffic in 1973, and a 2005 master plan brought two-way traffic back to the street in 2012. (Wikipedia)
The downtown mall holds a large farmers’ market on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, with stands run by local farmers, artists and craftspeople. The area also has museums, restaurants, churches, galleries and theaters. (Wikipedia)
Since 2014 a 19-foot New Mexico chile lit with 400 feet of LEDs has come down from a crane at the Plaza de Las Cruces on New Year’s Eve, to live music, a piñata and carnival games. USA Today ranked the Chile Drop third among the best New Year’s Eve drops in 2023. (Wikipedia)
Las Cruces magic: Desert peaks, valley farms and a chile that drops at midnight
→
Inquiry
We read everything
LET’S COLLAB. Run a business in Las Cruces? Want to be listed or featured, spotted something to fix, or want to bring Made In to your own town? Tell us.