{"id":1587,"date":"2009-10-01T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/01\/tower-gets-gussied-up"},"modified":"2009-10-01T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:05:00","slug":"tower-gets-gussied-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"Tower gets gussied up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"\"<\/a> I don’t frequent the Chase Tower all that often, so it was a shock to my system this morning when I walked into the lobby from Tyler Street to attend a pre-dawn meeting on the 30th floor.<\/p>\n

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The place has been dolled up — considerably.<\/div>\n

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I remember a time when the tower — in one of its previous incarnations — was in a relatively disheveled state. The first-floor lobby looked dingy. Business were vacating the tower for other locations. The building infastructure was in terrible shape.<\/div>\n

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No longer is that the case.<\/div>\n

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The building is virtually full. West Texas A&M occupies two floors in its Amarillo Center campus. And that lobby? Well, it’s no longer a dump.<\/div>\n

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It’s bright. The elevators have been refinished. The walls are decorated tastefully. The place is home to a shop that serves gourmet coffee (which suits this caffeine addict quite nicely). <\/div>\n

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I recall hearing when I moved here in January 1995 that the tower is the tallest building between Fort Worth and Denver. I trust that’s still the case, unless someone’s built a taller one in Colorado Springs. It’s an arguable point, I suppose, to suggest that the Chase Tower is downtown Amarillo’s “signature” structure; I am kind of partial to the Santa Fe Building — but I won’t argue the point here.<\/div>\n

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It’s worth noting, though, that as downtown’s revitalization continues on, that downtown’s tallest<\/em> structure — a point that clearly is not to be disputed — has seen a renaissance of its own.<\/div>\n

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I don’t frequent the Chase Tower all that often, so it was a shock to my system this morning when I walked into the lobby from Tyler Street to attend a pre-dawn meeting on the 30th floor. The place has been dolled up — considerably. I remember a time when the tower — in one … Continue reading Tower gets gussied up<\/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-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}