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TXNM was founded in 1917 as the Albuquerque Gas and Electric Company. TXNM sold the gas part of the business to Southern Union Gas Company of Dallas in 1949. These sold portions became the Gas Company of New Mexico. In 1985, however, PNM reacquired the Gas Company of New Mexico after Southern Union Gas Company reached a settlement stemming from ...
The Southern Union Gas Company Building is a historic building in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is notable as one of the earliest International style buildings in the city. [3] Built in 1951, it was the largest of several Southern Union offices around the state designed by southwestern architect John Gaw Meem.
Designed by the firm of Flatow and Moore, the Simms Building was one of the first International style buildings in Albuquerque (one earlier example, albeit on a much smaller scale, is John Gaw Meem's Southern Union Gas Company Building built in 1951). The building is 180 feet (55 m) tall and has 13 floors supported by a reinforced concrete ...
Mar. 15—Albuquerque gas prices are among the highest in the state and even in the Southwest this week. Drivers can expect to see an average price of about $3.40 at the pumps in Albuquerque ...
Sep. 6—Gas prices fell in New Mexico this week, with the state's average dropping 10 cents to $3.19 per gallon, according to AAA New Mexico Weekend Gas Watch. In Albuquerque, a gallon of fuel ...
Dec. 5—Jurors began deliberations Tuesday in the trial of Marcos Vigil, who is charged in the 2022 shooting deaths of two men in a parking lot of a Northeast Heights convenience store. Vigil, 49 ...
From 1917 to the mid-1960s the building was the headquarters of the Albuquerque Gas & Electric Company, which later became the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM). During this period the piers and cornice of the building were decorated with hundreds of electric light bulbs, the sockets for which are still in place. [3]
The Albuquerque Traction Company failed financially in 1915 and the City Electric Company was formed in its place. Despite traffic booms during the First World War, and unaided by lawsuits attempting to force the streetcar company to pay for paving, that system also failed later in 1927, leaving the streetcar's "motorettes" unemployed.