{"id":724,"date":"2019-08-11T16:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T16:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/?page_id=724"},"modified":"2019-08-11T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T16:26:37","slug":"wheels-museum-gets-545000","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/?page_id=724","title":{"rendered":"Wheels Museum Gets $545,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>By Harry Moskos<br>Of the Journal<\/strong><br>Sunday, April 20, 2003 <br> The Wheels Museum received a boost this month when Gov. Bill Richardson signed measures providing $545,000 for planning and exhibit acquisition. <br> The museum is proposed for a Downtown tract that once housed the Santa Fe Railway repair shops along Second Street SW. The 27-acre parcel includes 350,000 square feet of space in several buildings once used to service Santa Fe&#8217;s steam engines. <br> The idea originated in 1998 with Leba Freed, whose family operated the Freed Co. imports store on Central Avenue for 80 years. <br> The Urban Council of Albuquerque Inc., a nonprofit organization, purchased the tract from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad for $2.5 million in 2000. <br> &#8220;The redeveopment plans would have the Wheels Museum as a component in the development of that site,&#8221; notes Alan Vincioni of Berger Briggs and vice president of the Urban Council. <br> &#8220;As with any big project, everything is not as simple as it should be,&#8221; says Freed, the Wheels Museum president. She noted that difficulty in raising funds has pushed back the museum&#8217;s original opening date by two years, to 2007. <br> And there have been some conflicts with the Urban Council, which may be headed for mediation. <br> Joe Craig is vice president of Wheels and Alan Clark, who worked 30 years for the city&#8217;s library system, is executive director. <br> Clark says the goal of Wheels is not just a museum but a source of economic development highlighting &#8220;our history and culture.&#8221; <br> There are many details yet to be worked out. One, for example, is whether an existing building will house the museum or a new structure. A new structure would be in the shape and design of the old Santa Fe Railway roundhouse, which was demolished in the 1970s. <br> Clark points out that the railroad and Route 66 changed New Mexico. <br> &#8220;The history of the Atchison Topeka &amp; Santa Fe Railway is the development of the West,&#8221; he notes. &#8220;In the &#8217;20s, &#8217;30s and &#8217;40s, one-fourth of the people here worked on the railroad in one aspect or other.&#8221; <br> Plans call for about 60 percent of the museum&#8217;s space to be allocated for permanent exhibits, with the remaining space available for touring exhibits. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Harry MoskosOf the JournalSunday, April 20, 2003 The Wheels Museum received a boost this month when Gov. Bill Richardson signed measures providing $545,000 for planning and exhibit acquisition. The museum is proposed for a Downtown tract that once housed the Santa Fe Railway repair shops along Second Street SW. The 27-acre parcel includes 350,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}