{"id":57161,"date":"2024-06-06T00:36:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T00:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57161"},"modified":"2024-06-06T00:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T00:36:09","slug":"odds-mount-against-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57161","title":{"rendered":"Odds mount against project"},"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>If I were a betting man &#8212; and I am not! &#8212; I would be inclined to lay money down on the demise of an apartment complex in Princeton, Texas, where work began but has come to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that every serious thunderstorm that pounds the construction site only damages it more severely, making it unfit to continue.<\/p>\n<p>The project to which I refer sits on US 380 just east of Walmart. Construction began on it sometime in 2022. Then the developer and the contractor got into a snit and the contractor walked off the job. It is no small project that has gone fallow.<\/p>\n<p>There has been virtually no sign of human life on the site for more than a year. Unfinished buildings are exposed to the often-violent elements. Meanwhile, we have had a soaking spring in North Texas, bringing literally tons of water onto the site. Will we get more of the same kind of Mother Nature&#8217;s anger coming our way? You can bet on that &#8230; for sure!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Princeton city officials are saying next to nothing about the project&#8217;s status, demurring saying only that &#8220;legal&#8221; is handling it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s making me wonder out loud once more whether we&#8217;ve got a big-league boondoggle on our hands along US 380.<\/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>If I were a betting man &#8212; and I am not! &#8212; I would be inclined to lay money down on the demise of an apartment complex in Princeton, Texas, where work began but has come to a screeching halt. My hunch is that every serious thunderstorm that pounds the construction site only damages it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Odds mount against project<\/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":[10353,8848,8497],"class_list":["post-57161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-apartment-construction","tag-princeton-city-hall","tag-us-380"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57161","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=57161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57162,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57161\/revisions\/57162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}