ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The city shut down Coronado Park and a notorious homeless camp inside it ; now, the last standing piece of that park has a buyer ready to take over.
The dog park sits right across from the old Coronado Park, and if all goes according to plan, the plot may soon be the property of Creamland Dairy.
After councilors declared the Coronado Dog Park on 3rd and McKnight “not essential” for city use this year, then put it up for sale in June, now there is a potential buyer. Creamland Dairy is now trying to enter a sale agreement with the city to possibly buy the park property.
According to the agreement, the nearly two-acre plot could sell for just over a million dollars. However, as part of that sale, Creamland said it will only buy the property if the city also abandons the nearby McKnight Avenue between 2nd and 3rd and wraps that into the deal.
“It’s sad; it’s bittersweet to lose a park,” said Ricardo Guillermo, board member for Wells Park Neighborhood Association.