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Last month, in his address to the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Tim Keller challenged local business leaders to think differently about Albuquerque's future. Rather than offering a standard update on city initiatives, the mayor framed his remarks around a larger idea: abundance versus scarcity. His message was simple but important. Albuquerque cannot become the city we want by only managing decline, rationing ambition or stretching major projects across decades. We have to build more of what our community needs 鈥� and we have to do it with urgency, discipline and confidence.

That message resonated deeply with the chamber's membership because it is exactly the kind of thinking Albuquerque needs.

For too long, our community has had a habit of recognizing the right idea, debating it for years, funding it in pieces, delaying it through process, and then wondering why the final product costs more, takes longer than anyone expected, or doesn't happen at all.

Scarcity thinking does not always sound negative. Sometimes it sounds cautious, reasonable and incremental. But over time it produces the same result: projects that move too slowly, infrastructure that arrives too late and public needs that grow faster than our response.

The Albuquerque Rail Trail is a clear example. This is a visionary project with the potential to connect Downtown, Old Town, Sawmill, the Rail Yards and the bosque through a safe, beautiful and economically productive urban trail. It can support small businesses, improve mobility, strengthen downtown and give residents a new way to experience the heart of our city. But a project like this should not have to crawl forward one segment at a time over a decade or more. Under an abundance mindset, we would recognize its value, fund it and build it in a sustained push 鈥� so the public can benefit sooner.

The same lesson applies to the Gateway Center. Years ago, the chamber made the case that Albuquerque needed a single-site, low-barrier shelter and service facility because our homelessness response had major gaps. Too many people were sleeping outside. Too many services were spread across the city. Too many first responders had nowhere appropriate to take people in crisis other than jail or an emergency room.

The Gateway Center will never solve homelessness by itself 鈥� but it represented the kind of infrastructure Albuquerque had been missing. That is abundance thinking in practice. It does not mean pretending every problem is easy. It means building the systems needed to respond effectively. The Gateway Center gives the city more capacity, more coordination and more appropriate options for people experiencing homelessness, particularly those who need treatment, case management and a safer place to stabilize.

North Domingo Baca Aquatic Center tells a similar story. The master plan for North Domingo Baca Park dates back to 2005. Nearly every major element of that plan moved forward 鈥� except the aquatic center. For years, families, swimmers, schools and neighborhood advocates pushed to make the facility a reality, while communities across greater Albuquerque remained underserved for public aquatics, competitive swimming, therapy, recreation and major swimming events. Now that project is finally moving, and it shows what can happen when the city, state, schools and community partners align behind a shared priority. But it also raises the question: How much time and opportunity did we lose by not treating it as a priority sooner?

We should apply the same thinking to the University of New Mexico's football stadium on South Campus. A modern stadium is not just about seven football games a year. Done right, it can be a year-round community asset 鈥� a venue for concerts and statewide events, a better home for high school championships, a stronger gateway to UNM and an anchor for broader mixed-use development in one of the most important corridors in Albuquerque. Modernizing University Stadium is about safety, accessibility, fan experience and economic development. It is about whether New Mexico's flagship university has facilities that reflect the pride and ambition of the state it serves. And it is about whether Albuquerque is willing to see major public assets not as costs to be minimized, but as investments that generate activity, confidence and growth.

Of course, abundance thinking does not mean blank checks. The chamber believes fiscal discipline matters. Public dollars should be spent carefully. Projects should be transparent, accountable and built with clear expectations for outcomes. But fiscal discipline and bold investment are not opposites. In fact, the most fiscally irresponsible approach is often to delay needed projects until they become more expensive, more complicated and less effective. A city does not save money by waiting 20 years to build what its residents already need. It simply pays more later 鈥� and loses the benefits in the meantime.

The mayor was right when he said, "Albuquerque's challenge is not a lack of good ideas. We have good ideas. We have community assets. We have institutions worth strengthening, neighborhoods ready for investment, families who want more amenities, businesses that want a more vibrant city and young people who need reasons to build their future here."

The real question is whether we are willing to act at the scale our future requires. A scarcity mindset asks what we can afford to do this year, in the smallest possible increment. An abundance mindset asks what future we are trying to build, what investments will get us there and how we can move with enough urgency that today's residents actually experience the benefits.

Albuquerque has everything it needs except the willingness to act like it.

We should choose abundance.

Del Esparza is the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce immediate past chair. Terri Cole is the chamber president and CEO.