Jonathan Rose says Albuquerque really needed mixed income housing, so he built some. But the developer’s next project could be mixed use.

Rose is the leader of the Jonathan Rose Cos., with a development arm here in Albuquerque — Romero Rose — led by Teresa A. Bell. Rose is in Albuquerque Monday for the grand opening of Downtown’s Casitas de Colores — a $16.2 million, 71-unit multifamily complex at 215 Lead Ave. SW. The site is just west of Romero Rose’s Silver Gardens I and II development at Second Street and Silver Avenue SW.