There’s no way in the world to overstate the surprise I felt when I heard the news, that a developer had decided to remake the Barfield Building in downtown Amarillo and turn it into a “boutique hotel” with the Marriott name. Yep, it was a shock. The picture you see with this blog post comes … Continue reading Barfield Building rebirth: a major surprise
This story remains a serious head-scratcher for me. I’ll be glad to be proved wrong if and when the story concludes. They have begun work on a 10-story eyesore in downtown Amarillo, Texas. The Barfield Building, which has gone through many fits and starts as it has decayed over the course of many years, is … Continue reading It’s actually begun: work on the Barfield Building
I have taken great pleasure in cheering on the progress I’ve witnessed in downtown Amarillo, Texas. Abandoned buildings have been revived. New structures are being erected. Businesses are coming back into the district. They’ve broken ground on a new minor-league baseball park. Downtown is home to two first-class hotels. Then we have the Barfield Building. … Continue reading What will happen to the Barfield Building? Anything?
I would love to cheer this bit of news regarding a long-standing downtown Amarillo eyesore. I’m afraid I have to hold back the hoo-rah. You see, we’ve been down this path before — many times before, in fact. The owners of the Barfield Building — at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Polk Street — … Continue reading Barfield Building gets another look … maybe
Since I don’t get downtown in Amarillo as much as I used to, I find myself getting caught up with normally “routine” sights. Take the Barfield Building, at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Polk Street. It’s still a battered hulk of a building shell. It remains unoccupied. It’s ground-level floor is boarded up. Nothing’s … Continue reading What about the Barfield Building?
I saw the newspaper story this morning about the Barfield Building, the hulk of a structure that sits at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Polk Street in downtown Amarillo. The story said Todd Harmon, the ādeveloperā who owns the structure, has avoided foreclosure on the building. He lives in Stephenville these days and was … Continue reading Barfield Buildingās future remains cloudy
A trip into downtown Amarillo, Texas, today brought to mind a question about the central district’s future. If the Barfield Building — a seriously rotting hulk of a structure — can be targeted for renovation as a Marriott niche hotel, why can’t anyone come forward to revive an even more iconic structure, the Herring Hotel? … Continue reading Yes on Barfield … what about the Herring?
Well, shut my mouth and call me … whatever you want. I had written not long ago about my doubts over the future of the long-abandoned Barfield Building in downtown Amarillo, Texas. It stands at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Polk Street. It’s a rotting hulk of its former glory. https://highplainsblogger.com/?s=Barfield+Building This morning I … Continue reading What? Barfield is coming back to life? Maybe?
Is this it? Is this the corner that an abandoned, dilapidated, rotting hulk of a downtown Amarillo office building needs to return to life? A Dallas developer, Tom Pauken, has just foreclosed on the long-abandoned Barfield Building, wrestling it away from its owner who’s said for longer than anyone can remember that, by golly, he’s … Continue reading Abandoned building gets another new owner
This morning brought a bit of a surprise that I thought initially might mean a huge announcement involving a downtown Amarillo, Texas landmark-turned-community eyesore. It appears my hopes are a good bit premature. I refer to the Herring Hotel, the long-abandoned structure on the northern end of the downtown district. My preliminary snooping this morning … Continue reading My heart fluttered … but wait!