Santa Fe City Manager Mark Scott said he began hearing a question about the midtown campus redevelopment as early as February, when he first stepped on board: “Will it ever happen?”

The short answer: It’s happening.

Momentum at the city-owned former college campus on St. Michael’s Drive has increased significantly this year, leaving the incoming mayor and city councilors with a number of midtown-related proposals to consider soon after their inauguration — including the first steps toward creating a revenue stream to build out up to $70 million in roads and other infrastructure.

“It’s moving very aggressively at this point on many fronts,” Scott told the City Council during a Nov. 12 presentation on the midtown effort.

The city since 2018 has been working on an ambitious redevelopment

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