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Let’s hang a proverbial “No Vacancy” sign on\u00a0what\u00a0supporters hope will be a multipurpose event venue to be built in downtown Amarillo.<\/p>\n

You see, it’s\u00a0been reported that all 12 luxury\u00a0suites\u00a0designed for the MPEV have been\u00a0sold. None left.<\/p>\n

Interesting, yes? Absolutely.<\/p>\n

It’s that ballpark<\/a>\u00a0element that’s drawn all the attention from the buyers. They want to enjoy minor-league baseball in the relative comfort of the suites. Wow! Imagine that. Customers\u00a0jumping at the chance to watch a little baseball in a shiny new sports venue.<\/p>\n

Who knew?<\/p>\n

No money has been laid out yet for the suites, but Advance Amarillo — a group supporting the MPEV — says without equivocation that enough buyers are waiting in the wings\u00a0that the suites will be sold out when then project is built.<\/p>\n

Gosh, isn’t that what proponents have been\u00a0saying all along would happen?<\/p>\n

Naturally, not everyone is on board. David Kossey\u00a0speaks for a group that oppose the MPEV. He issued this statement this evening: “We are interested to know who authorized the sale, negotiation, or procurement of any transactions related to a not-yet-built ballpark. Is the Vote For Amarillo crowd pre-selecting an operator of the MPEV without consent of the voters in November, and superseding the authority of the city council? The media campaign by the ‘VoteFor’ group saying ‘all suites are spoken for’ appears to be a continuation of a ‘we will tell Amarillo what they want and who will receive it’ mentality voters removed by the results of the May election. After their attempt to confuse the elderly voters earlier in this election, this attempt to precursor the election with an idea that ‘this is a done deal,’ raises even more questions.”<\/p>\n

Well, I don’t\u00a0know what the\u00a0verb “precursor” is meant to convey. But what the heck.<\/p>\n

There is no effort being made\u00a0to “tell Amarillo what they want.”\u00a0The news is merely intended to report that the suites are being claimed by those who want in.<\/p>\n

I believe that the MPEV — if it’s allowed to move forward — will produce significant interest among those who want to sit in a nice venue to watch an athletic event. It beats the daylights out of the dump — Potter County Memorial Stadium — that serves currently as Amarillo’s baseball venue.<\/p>\n

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Let’s hang a proverbial “No Vacancy” sign on\u00a0what\u00a0supporters hope will be a multipurpose event venue to be built in downtown Amarillo. You see, it’s\u00a0been reported that all 12 luxury\u00a0suites\u00a0designed for the MPEV have been\u00a0sold. None left. Interesting, yes? Absolutely. It’s that ballpark\u00a0element that’s drawn all the attention from the buyers. They want to enjoy minor-league … Continue reading MPEV suites sold out … already<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[321,1436,5365],"class_list":["post-11338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-mpev","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-potter-county-memorial-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11339,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions\/11339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}