History
This story is not the conventional well planned business model. In 1984, while sub-leasing the back of an architectural firm in downtown ABQ for her new interior design practice, Patti Harrell Hoech was running out of room for her expanding source library of fabric samples, catalogs and workspace. Loving being downtown, she took note that the storefront across the street on Gold Ave was for lease. Respecting the vintage of the building, early 20th century, she salvaged the original hardwood floors and sparingly partitioned the space. She displayed art. Next thing Harrell Hoech knew, she was approached by Pamela & Don Michaelis and the newly organized Albuquerque Art Business Assoc to become a member gallery. Then a new stage of evolution was at hand...bang a doorway through and capture the vacated adjacent space in order to expand the