{"id":1596,"date":"2009-09-24T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/24\/construction-under-way"},"modified":"2009-09-24T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:51:00","slug":"construction-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Construction under way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Walking back from lunch Wednesday along Polk Street, I shot a glance at the Fisk Building.<\/div>\n

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I darted across the street and pressed my face against a grimy window and saw what I had hoped to see: construction, and lots of it, ongoing in the one-time bank building.<\/div>\n

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There’s a sign hanging on a parking garage next to the structure declaring that the new Marriott hotel is scheduled to open on the site next summer. What a grand step forward in the effort to revive downtown.<\/div>\n

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Crews have all but gutted the ground floor of the Fisk. The plan is to turn the historic structure into a downtown business hotel, along with office space.<\/div>\n

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It’s just one step, but it’s more than a small one. And it’s happening in one of downtown’s more attractive structures. For my money, the Fisk ranks right up there with the Santa Fe Building as an aesthetic gem.<\/div>\n

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My sincere hope is that the work on the Fisk doesn’t stall as it has on the Barfield Building a few blocks away. That promotional sign on the parking garage surely will keep the momentum moving forward — correct?<\/div>\n

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Walking back from lunch Wednesday along Polk Street, I shot a glance at the Fisk Building. I darted across the street and pressed my face against a grimy window and saw what I had hoped to see: construction, and lots of it, ongoing in the one-time bank building. There’s a sign hanging on a parking … Continue reading Construction under way<\/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-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}