{"id":28285,"date":"2018-02-23T02:43:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T02:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28285"},"modified":"2018-02-23T02:43:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T02:43:52","slug":"will-happen-barfield-building-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28285","title":{"rendered":"What will happen to the Barfield Building? Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/barfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28286\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/barfield-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/barfield-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/barfield.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have taken great pleasure in cheering on the progress I&#8217;ve witnessed in downtown Amarillo, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Abandoned buildings have been revived. New structures are being erected. Businesses are coming back into the district. They&#8217;ve broken ground on a new minor-league baseball park. Downtown is home to two first-class hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have the Barfield Building.<\/p>\n<p>I drive by it a couple times a week and so help me, it seems as though every time I see that rotting hulk of a structure it looks more dilapidated than it does the previous time I looked at it.<\/p>\n<p>I have lost track of the ownership changes that have occurred there. It&#8217;s been vacant for as long as my wife and I have lived in Amarillo; that&#8217;s more than 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>An investor once started gutting the ground floor. Then the work stopped. The owner boarded up the floor. Nothing has happened since.<\/p>\n<p>A Dallas-based investor took over the building with a promise to do something with it, or <em>to<\/em> it.<\/p>\n<p>Then a consortium of local investors took it over.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the last I heard of anything.<\/p>\n<p>This past summer there was some reporting about tax incentives to turn the Barfield into a hotel\/apartment structure. The incentives were to total $17 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Amarillo Globe-News reported it <a href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/business\/local-news\/news\/2017-08-25\/tax-credits-may-make-17-million-hotel-renovation-possibility\">as a possibility.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That was then. Nothing has happened.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot help but think that a wrecking ball might be in the building&#8217;s future. The old Barfield Building keeps taking on the appearance of a structure that isn&#8217;t worth saving.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have taken great pleasure in cheering on the progress I&#8217;ve witnessed in downtown Amarillo, Texas. Abandoned buildings have been revived. New structures are being erected. Businesses are coming back into the district. They&#8217;ve broken ground on a new minor-league baseball park. Downtown is home to two first-class hotels. Then we have the Barfield Building. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What will happen to the Barfield Building? Anything?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2,9],"tags":[290,544,1436,3153],"class_list":["post-28285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-barfield-building","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-mpev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285","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=28285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28287,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285\/revisions\/28287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}