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Who are Candidates for ABQ's Wealthiest Resident?

Was just chatting with my accountant today (noticing the opposite of wealth in my coffers) and wondered who is the wealthiest person residing in Albuquerque.

Any candidates you can think of?

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Permalink Reply by once banned twice shy on October 19, 2010 at 3:54pm

Church of Scientology? heh.

As for the Maloofs and Mr. Daskalos, Colleen might still have a residence here. I had read that she moved away, though. Jason Daskalos can live out of town and still be the landlord/owner of the Crappy Behemoth on Central.

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Permalink Reply by Barelas Babe on October 19, 2010 at 6:21pm

Heh. Crappy Behemoth. From now on that is what I shall call this monstrosity.

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Permalink Reply by Gabriel on October 20, 2010 at 1:26pm

As I remember, one of the property owners back there used to be involved with bottling Coca Cola in the region.

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Permalink Reply by Ron Da Bomb on October 19, 2010 at 5:09pm

Interesting list! Although I'm pretty sure Andy Turner would not make the list today.

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Permalink Reply by LaGuera on October 19, 2010 at 9:50pm

The Luthys, the Unsers, the Brunacinis.

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Permalink Reply by Mark on October 19, 2010 at 10:11pm

Wow. Interesting responses so far. I agree with obts that there are probably many that we do not know. I think our list has a disproportionate amount of restauranteurs, probably because we come in contact with those places regularly, but don't necessarily come in contact with other industries as much.

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Permalink Reply by ramon t on October 20, 2010 at 10:39am

'tis is true. I know a few people that are in Insurance, Investments and Construction that are very wealthy.

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Permalink Reply by Hermes_505 on October 20, 2010 at 11:54am

Good list albeit dated. Yates still live here, as do several Andersons. Hope Aldrige (Rockefeller) used to own the SF New Mexican, too. Also can probably toss Mock family (Jaynes Corporation) in there- as well as Scott Karsten, of Karsten Homes who sold his biz to Buffet about 3 years ago. Cha-ching. Yeah, restaurantuers can make good money, but often times it's a secondary operation or interest to the main cash flow operation (thinking Kapnisons with Yanni's but really the $$ is in real estate in SF/Nob Hill).

Typically folks who work at the big co's get the press/attention, but as you have pointed out, so many folks are unidentified who make hella more money than the Pres or PNM guys- thinking of several practicing attorneys (full partners), physicians, owners of accounting firms (one of which was just recently in the news), beer/booz distributors, car dealer owners, Abruzzos, Blaugrunds, Simms, Rembes...

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Permalink Reply by abqmom on October 20, 2010 at 3:32pm

who are the most generous?

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Permalink Reply by Hunter on October 20, 2010 at 3:51pm

For that you have to dig into the reports from United Way, NMSO, Albuquerque Community Foundation, Barrett House, etc. I do know that the Blaugrunds name turns up frequently. I am sure there are others.

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Permalink Reply by Robert S. on October 21, 2010 at 6:56am

Danny Granger live in the area, or did he blow his money on the batcave. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Ben Moffett on October 21, 2010 at 9:59am

Not Bill Gates. He left in 1979, the year after Al Unser, Jr. won his third Indy 500. What about the Unsers? In all, Al Jr., Al Sr. and Bobby won nine Indy 500s worth $4,636,130. If they invested it all a ten percent and lived on other revenues...hmmmm. Remember Bobby's first Indy win was 42 years ago (1968) and five of the Indy winscame before 1980 when a dollar was worth something. Then there were several seconds and thirds, other races, sponsorships, play-by-play announcing, a garage business..All the purses are at http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=auto&id=3413222.