Courthouse District
Located on the north side of downtown, this district is bounded by Marble Avenue, Roma Avenue, Second
Street, and Seventh Street. It is named for the three major courthouses located at the intersection of Fourth and Lomas: Pete V. Domenici United States Courthouse, Bernalillo County Courthouse, and the New Mexico Metropolitan Courthouse.

Warehouse District
On the north side of downtown along the railroad tracks, the Warehouse District includes the area between Second and the railroad tracks, north of the Convention Center to Slate Avenue. As its name implies, this area contains mostly warehouses from the railroad era.

Plaza District
The Plaza District is the central area of downtown, bounded by Roma, Copper, Seventh, and the railroad
tracks. It is centered around Civic Plaza and includes many of Albuquerque’s large office and government
buildings including the Albuquerque City-County Building, the Convention Center, Albuquerque Plaza, the Compass Bank Building, and the Albuquerque Petroleum Building. The Main Library of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo
County Library System is also located in this district.

Arts and Entertainment District
This district is centered along Central Avenue and Gold Avenue east of First Street. It contains most of downtown Albuquerque’s historic buildings as well as most of its shopping, dining, and nightlife destinations. Notable landmarks in this district include the KiMo Theater, Occidental Life Building, First National Bank Building, and Sunshine Building. There is a small concentration of government and office buildings on Gold Avenue which includes the Dennis Chavez Federal Building, Gold Building, and Simms Building. Amy Biehl High School is also located in this district.

Downtown is roughly defined as the area between Marble Avenue, Coal Avenue, Seventh Street, and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks. The area on the east side of the railroad tracks is known as East Downtown or EDo

Street grid

Downtown Albuquerque is laid out in a standard grid pattern, with numbered north-south streets and named eastwest avenues. Central Avenue (originally known as Railroad Avenue) is the main east-west thoroughfare through the center of Downtown, while Lomas Boulevard (originally New York Avenue) is a major east-west arterial through the north part of downtown.
The streets start with First Street just west of the railroad tracks and increase in number moving westward.
Fourth Street was originally the main north-south thoroughfare through Downtown but today it is discontinuous, interrupted by Civic Plaza and a two-block pedestrian mall north of Central. Since these developments took place Second Street has been the main north-south street through downtown.
Fourth Street through downtown Albuquerque was part of U.S. Route 66 prior to the route’s 1937 realignment.
Afterwards, Route 66 ran along Central Avenue until its decommissioning.