War Zone, Albuquerque –
On March 14th, 2025, the Albuquerque Fire Rescue responded to a building fire at 6416 Central Avenue SE. It use to house an Adult Video shop for many years that eventually closed because of crime and the convenience of online porn.
The building seemed to be a hang out for the homeless population who often break inside and light fires within not caring about the consequences to its structure or the danger to surrounding abandoned structures. The building is now a total loss as it was burned down during an early morning fire that necessitated a large response from AFR to battle the blaze.
“The fire was eventually brought under control in about one hour and 30 minutes. The main structure is a total loss, however, crews were able to stop the fire from spreading to the nearby exposure to the east. Crews did evacuate one uninjured civilian from a nearby exposure. The cause of the fire is under investigation,” said AFR Lt. and department PIO Jason Fejer.
AFR is now contacting other city departments to get the building emergency demolished.
Finally some good news!
“….again.” So what was the insurance payout?
Albuquerque 2024 Commercial Vacancy statistics: Southeast Heights saw the highest vacancy rate in the city at 15.36%, followed by Downtown (11.74%)…Thanks Timmy, tell us again why you deserve a third term as Mayor. At this rate Central will soon be vacant lots and abandoned buildings inhabited by homeless drug addicts and criminals. Your vision of Albuquerque makes me sick.
It’s been totally demolished
Sadly, you guys voted for this guy.
Here are some fun facts.
5000 city employees
1000 cops (actually 600, rest are office)
500,000 residents = 1 city employee to every 100 people (5000) city staff
500,000 residents = 1 cop to every 880 people.
That’s your problem right there. You guys voted for this. I own the abandoned station and central / Wyoming. I’ll be reopening it. In February they pulled 3 dead bodies from it. PNM won’t put a transformer back on property because it keeps getting destroyed. I can’t open the property without power – this has been a 6 month fight. I offered to pay to move the transformer to up the pole. Cost me 22,000.00 – PNM still hasn’t responded. Mayors office won’t take my calls / told me to call someone else. I also offered to install license plate readers / Pan tilt cameras at both my gas stations. The bids are 28 and 32.000 each. Most of the cost is from SE commander Richards asking for help. Nice guy, the mayors staff won’t return calls or emails asking for help to link the cameras to the cities live police camera unit.
Great job people. You voted for this
Seriously, if I had the money you have I’d move.
It floors me that in the 8 years I have lived in Abq that sign has just sat there like that. It is such an eyesore for a biz that no longer exists. I tell foks visiting to stay away from Central all together.