City of Albuquerque celebrates groundbreaking for new fire station at Coronado Park

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After the City of Albuquerque closed Coronado Park over three years ago, and on Friday, it celebrated what it’s calling the next chapter for the once problem-plagued park.

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Coronado Park will soon be the new home of an upgraded fire station with private bunk rooms, more bathrooms, and bigger living quarters than the old station next door. The park has remained empty after the city shut it down in 2022, after it had become a hub for drug dealing, sex trafficking, and even the location of a deadly shooting…

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