Anderson Heights in Albuquerque, NM

Anderson Heights is a master-planned community on Albuquerque's Southwest Mesa, laid out along 118th Street SW between Dennis Chavez Boulevard and Amole Mesa Avenue. KB Home built much of it in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and the streets carry that single-builder rhythm. A homeowners association covers the community, with a separate association running the Orchards section and its swimming pool. Anderson Heights Park, opened in 2019 with voter-approved bond money, adds a play area, basketball court and picnic plaza. Atrisco Heritage Academy High School and George I. Sanchez Collaborative Community School serve the area.

The Anderson Heights Homeowners' Association, Inc. is run by HOAMCO's Albuquerque office. Monthly dues go toward common areas, road maintenance, security and the shared recreation facilities. The Orchards keeps its own elected board and its own pool calendar, with lap swim in the morning and open swim running into the evening once the season opens in late May.

The park arrived through General Obligation Bond elections in 2013 and 2017, part of a push to add green space on the Southwest Mesa. It was built with ADA-accessible pathways and native landscaping, flowering trees and shrubs rather than turf.

118th Street SW is the spine of this stretch of mesa. The city has studied rebuilding the corridor between Dennis Chavez and Amole Mesa to add sidewalks, a multi-use trail, better bike lanes and landscaped medians, since pedestrian connections are patchy on the east side and absent on the west.

One caution on names: Highlands At Anderson Hills is recorded beneath Anderson Heights, but Anderson Hills is a separate association covering four neighborhoods of its own, under different management. The two developments sit near each other on the Southwest Mesa and the names are easy to swap.