[5] Part of the project was an attached parking garage, also intended to serve the recently completed City-County Building via a pedestrian walkway above 5th Street.
[7] Bernalillo County was in negotiations to purchase the building in 2008, but ended up backing off from the deal due to the Great Recession.
[8] 500 Marquette is 235 feet (72 m) tall and has 15 stories, making it Albuquerque's fourth tallest building.
Designed by Dwayne G. Lewis Architects, it consists of an 11-story trapezoidal block cantilevered over a four-story glass atrium, with a five-level parking garage extending to the south along 6th Street.
In front of the building entrance is a 12-foot (3.7 m) bronze sculpture by Allan Houser titled "The Future—Chiricahua Apache Family".