Zia Station wordmark

Returning community to our city.

Location History

Santa Fe has long been connected to trains, from the historic Santa Fe Railroad to the old Chili Line. In December 2008, passenger rail service returned to the nation’s oldest capital city with the Rail Runner Express, and brought with it the opportunity to carefully examine the potential of a parcel of land that sits as a 'gateway' to our historic city.

Zia Station, at the corner of Zia Road and St. Francis Drive, sits in an area that used to be considered the outskirts of town. A noisy, polluting pumice plant operated here for more than 40 years, and was eventually surrounded by homes, schools and businesses as the population grew. With SF Brown's purchase of the pumice plant in 2005 and demolition in 2007, the tracks were cleared for the construction of the Rail Runner Express Zia Road station in 2008.

As our society is becoming increasingly concerned with sustainability - lessening our impact on the planet - we felt we had the responsibility to our fellow Santa Feans to break from past development trends of suburban sprawl and create a new, healthier approach to the way we live and work.

By reducing our dependence on the automobile, taking advantage of alternate modes of transportation like bicycles, busses and trains, and minimizing the necessity of driving greater distances for daily services, we feel we can serve dual purposes of reducing our carbon footprint and return to a sense of community in our neighborhoods that has slowly eroded over the past century.