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therefore, was assigned a park Avenue address based on the proposed development which was then vacant property. Since then, the vacant property has been sold and condominiums have been developed which separate Park Plaza from Park Avenue. It was decided that an address change would create problems for the occupants currently living in Park Plaza, so the address has remained ever since. (from a letter dated 9/15/1981 signed by
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nominal fee. The building did eventually fill up, and was reported as over 80% occupied in 1967. Over the years, many of the units were customized by their tenants, who were encouraged to combine units, enclose balconies, or make other changes as they saw fit. Hardin vacated his penthouse apartment in 1979 and sold the building to the Park Plaza
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Apartments were built in 1963–4 by a partnership consisting of M.M. Hardin of Albuquerque and Dan R. Ponder and C.H. Leavell of El Paso. Ground was broken on May 14, 1963, and construction proceeded beginning with the two 165-foot (50 m) elevators and then floor by floor assembly
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Park Plaza was constructed in 1963–4 at a cost of $ 2.5 million. With 144 one- and two-bedroom luxury apartments, it was the largest apartment complex in
Albuquerque at the time and was described in a contemporary advertisement as "the Southwest's most beautiful and modern apartment building".
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