9520 Signal Avenue NE

Drive north on Wyoming past Paseo del Norte and the city changes character in about two blocks. Curbs stop. Lots go from a tenth of an acre to a full one. You start seeing horse trailers and metal shops behind the houses. That's North Albuquerque Acres, and most people looking at North Albuquerque Acres homes for sale are here for one reason: they want land inside Albuquerque, and there isn't much of it left.The plat is old and it explains almost everything about the place. In 1931 the Norins Realty Company of California bought 5,700 acres out of the Elena Gallegos Land Grant and cut it into a grid of one-acre rectangles, then sold the lots by mail to buyers around the country who mostly never laid eyes on them. A standard lot ran 165 by 264 feet to the road centerline. Take out the 60-foot road easement and you net between roughly .73 and .89 of an acre. Those dimensions still describe most of the neighborhood today.What the 1931 grid got wrongNorins drew straight lines across ground...