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Another Albuquerque historic landmark gone…

Todd Clarke @ July 24, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Almost a year ago, I wrote about the devastating fire at the Castle apartments. Located on Central Avenue at about 15th street, the apartments were incredibly well built, had an appealing interior design and finish and were well loved by anyone who has ever lived there.
Although several local developers looked at ways to save [...]

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Bad news, good news, have you heard the joke about the economist?

Todd Clarke @ September 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The juxtaposition of news story about the economy are interesting – on one hand the Federal government has declared a victory on turning around the economy, on the other, those of us in the commercial real estate business know that until there is transparency in the lenders holdings, the loans will not flow, the capital [...]

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APS’s dismal graduation rate

Todd Clarke @ August 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet

In a copyright story by the Albuquerque Journal, the headline read “State: Almost Half of Class of 2008 Didn’t Graduate” and was followed by “Roughly half the students who should have graduated with the class of 2008 failed to do so, prompting a call to action by the state’s education secretary.”
While the headline is alarming, [...]

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Albuquerque loses a stately historic apartment community

Todd Clarke @ August 5, 2009 # One Comment

Fire last night destroyed one of Albuquerque’s best loved medium sized apartment communities- the Castle Apartments. Located between downtown and old town at 1410 Central SW, the 20 unit apartment community caught fire around 8pm and continued to burn in the Wednesday morning.

Built in 1922, the 15,150 square foot apartments featured amazing built-ins and [...]

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