{"id":50138,"date":"2022-01-15T14:29:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50138"},"modified":"2022-01-15T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T14:29:32","slug":"moving-day-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50138","title":{"rendered":"Moving day at City Hall"},"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\/2021\/10\/princeton-city-hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49432\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/princeton-city-hall-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/princeton-city-hall-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/princeton-city-hall-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/princeton-city-hall-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/princeton-city-hall-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/princeton-city-hall.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Princeton City Hall is about to pack up and move to a new location down the road a bit.<\/p>\n<p>It figures to be a proverbial cakewalk, according to City Manager Derek Borg, who once told me he has been through this already and, thus, he expects a relatively smooth transition from the cramped quarters that City Hall occupies into a vastly more spacious and modern complex east along U.S. Highway 380.<\/p>\n<p>Moving day actually will occur over the span of two days, Jan. 27 and 28, city officials announced recently. There will be a grand opening set for March 11. Mayor Brianna Chacon wants to have it during students&#8217; spring break to ensure that residents can be available to attend and relish what the city will unveil to the public.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a huge deal.<\/p>\n<p>The city spent $20 million to build the municipal complex on donated land on the north side of the highway. It&#8217;s a fabulous array of office space, comprising about eight times the space the city now uses. Borg told me the new complex will bring virtually all municipal government departments under one roof.<\/p>\n<p>The complex will feature plenty of glass, lots of windows as a symbolic statement of the &#8220;transparency&#8221; the city hopes to convey to the public.\u00a0Future plans call for plenty of green space, retail space and an entertainment venue for residents to enjoy, according to the city manager.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; first things first.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Derek Borg is predicting a hiccup-free move. However, he will take on whatever challenges arise with joyful determination that once everyone settles in, they will be able to provide top-flight municipal service to the residents who are footing the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to you all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Princeton City Hall is about to pack up and move to a new location down the road a bit. It figures to be a proverbial cakewalk, according to City Manager Derek Borg, who once told me he has been through this already and, thus, he expects a relatively smooth transition from the cramped quarters that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moving day at City Hall<\/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":[9],"tags":[1063,7493,8848],"class_list":["post-50138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-collin-county","tag-north-texas","tag-princeton-city-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50138","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=50138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50139,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50138\/revisions\/50139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}