The (B) Ruppe is owned by Homewise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help create successful homeowners and strengthen neighborhoods so that individuals and families can improve their long-term financial wellbeing and quality of life. Homewise empowers and supports clients on their path to homeownership through each step of the process with financial education and coaching, real estate services, affordable mortgage lending and down payment assistance, refinance and home improvement lending. Learn more about Homewise at www.homewise.org.
What is Homewise doing at The Ruppe?
Homewise is deepening our impact through a neighborhood-focused community development strategy.
Our community development work strengthens neighborhoods using different strategies tailored to specific challenges. In Albuquerque, we buy and restore empty residential and commercial buildings and then get homeowners and businesses back into them. Our redevelopment efforts have a catalytic impact, attracting new investment into neighborhoods that have experienced decades of disinvestment.
The Ruppe Drugstore is the oldest drugstore in Albuquerque—operational from 1883 to 2017. Located on Fourth Street in Barelas, it evolved over time from a traditional pharmacy into a store where people bought medicinal herbs and received treatments from curanderos from New Mexico and Mexico. As we redevelop the space we’re focused on fa community-centered plan that will provide health services to the surrounding area, keeping the history of the space alive in the future use.