{"id":1277,"date":"2010-03-04T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/04\/what-now-with-the-courthouse"},"modified":"2010-03-04T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:51:00","slug":"what-now-with-the-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"What now with the courthouse?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The scaffolding is down from the 1909 Courthouse in Canyon.<\/p>\n

The exterior renovation is complete and the building looks pretty spiffy. But the question now, as always, is this: What happens now?<\/p>\n

The inside of the structure is still a rat hole. It is unoccupied and it likely will stay that way for a good while. Yet many well-intentioned historical preservationists persuaded enough Randall County voters to pony up the public funds to fix up the exterior of the building.<\/p>\n

I would agree that the building has a number of possibilities. It could become a museum; a private firm — such a law firm or an insurance agency — could move in; the Chamber of Commerce might consider using it.<\/p>\n

But it’s quite clear that the county has no use for it.<\/p>\n

The head-scratcher, though, is that the county had to pay a good bit for its exterior makeover.<\/p>\n

As a Randall County resident, I’m truly glad the building looks so good — especially with the clock tower sitting atop it. I’m equally troubled, though, that the county is stuck with a pretty shell of a structure with a future that might be determined eventually, but likely will sit empty for a good, long while.<\/p>\n

Are there any takers out there?<\/p>\n\n

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The scaffolding is down from the 1909 Courthouse in Canyon. The exterior renovation is complete and the building looks pretty spiffy. But the question now, as always, is this: What happens now? The inside of the structure is still a rat hole. It is unoccupied and it likely will stay that way for a good … Continue reading What now with the courthouse?<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","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=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}