Our Story
Warehouse 508 is ABQ's biggest youth arts and entertainment center located in Downtown ABQ!
OUR MISSION
Warehouse 508 by NMX Sports is a youth-focused, youth-driven avenue to introduce, develop and professionally implement skills in the arts, music, outdoor recreation and nontraditional sports through mentorships, lifestyle events and entrepreneurial opportunities to enhance New Mexico youth’s quality of life and community involvement in a safe, structured and supervised environment.
WHAT WE DO
Warehouse 508 provides a wide range of programming and events geared toward and designed by youth in New Mexico. Working out of a 26,000 sq. ft. warehouse space in downtown Albuquerque, 508’s Youth Creative Council and staff implement programs from concept to completion, including rock concerts, poetry workshops, film editing classes, mentorships in graphic design, and entrepreneurial projects such as a youth-run retail store.
NMX Sports provides safe, structured and affordable ways for youth to participate in nontraditional sports like snowboarding and wakeboarding. NMX’s iGo program encourages youth to engage in community service while earning credits applicable to NMX and 508 trips, workshops, classes and programs. NMX takes outdoor recreation excursions, hosts youth-focused competitions and/or arranges learn-to programs nearly every weekend, year round.
WHY WE DO
Warehouse 508 by NMX’s primary directive is to implement lifestyle events, educational opportunities and mentorships responsive to the demand of Albuquerque’s youth. 508 by NMX provides these mentored, project-based services and events to build entrepreneurial and life skills to enhance New Mexico youth’s quality of life and community involvement. Warehouse 508 by NMX is an avenue for positive youth development in a safe, structured and supervised environment developed by youth, for youth and for the betterment of our community.