{"id":40631,"date":"2020-01-04T00:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T00:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40631"},"modified":"2020-01-04T00:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T00:44:53","slug":"businesses-will-come-and-they-will-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40631","title":{"rendered":"Businesses will come and they will go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodSquad%20%23downtownAmarillo%20%23AmarilloMatters&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Amarillo_Downtown_Development28July_36_copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10691\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Amarillo_Downtown_Development28July_36_copy-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Amarillo_Downtown_Development28July_36_copy-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Amarillo_Downtown_Development28July_36_copy-1024x497.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am sensing a touch of community and social media hand-wringing over the closure of a jazz club that opened in downtown Amarillo a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Esquire Jazz Club opened a couple of years ago with considerable fanfare as the city&#8217;s downtown revival picked up an impressive head of steam. Its owner is Amarillo lawyer and jazz musician Pat Swindell, whose band played at the club regularly, as I understand it.<\/p>\n<p>OK, the club didn&#8217;t make it. It is shuttered. Is this the end of downtown&#8217;s revival? Does this mean the efforts to transform Polk Street into a new form of entertainment district won&#8217;t work?<\/p>\n<p>Please. Let&#8217;s get real.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses come and go. It would have been great to see the Esquire Jazz Club flourish, providing a joyful entertainment option for residents of Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>However, I feel the need to remind the worriers that there remains a virtually endless supply of businesses opportunities for the city to explore. Indeed, the downtown progress to date has been impressive.<\/p>\n<p>The city has welcomed the opening of a new ballpark that officials hope will be host to many events other than AA minor-league baseball; new hotels are coming on line to join the Embassy Suites complex across the street from City Hall; Polk Street has welcomed new commercial businesses; Potter County&#8217;s Courthouse has been renovated and restored; West Texas A&amp;M University has opened a downtown campus.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be hiccups along the way? Yes! Of course!<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to worry about Amarillo&#8217;s economic future. It still looks bright to my eyes.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SodSquad%20%23downtownAmarillo%20%23AmarilloMatters&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sensing a touch of community and social media hand-wringing over the closure of a jazz club that opened in downtown Amarillo a couple of years ago. The Esquire Jazz Club opened a couple of years ago with considerable fanfare as the city&#8217;s downtown revival picked up an impressive head of steam. Its owner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Businesses will come and they will go<\/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":[6892,1436,8347,3657],"class_list":["post-40631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-matters","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-hodgetown","tag-polk-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631","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=40631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40632,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631\/revisions\/40632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}