{"id":57277,"date":"2024-07-07T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57277"},"modified":"2024-07-07T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T13:26:27","slug":"ticking-has-begun-on-montrosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57277","title":{"rendered":"Ticking has begun on montrosity"},"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>That ticking sound you might hear if you&#8217;re driving along US 380 in Princeton could be the sound of the clock winding down on a project that has been stalled for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>It is a huge &#8220;luxury apartment&#8221; complex of buildings next to Wal-Mart that has gone fallow. The city&#8217;s code compliance department is preparing an analysis of the project to determine whether it is out of compliance. My guess? It damn sure is.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Princeton Herald: <em>The notice from a city building official called the apartments a \u201csubstandard structure, constitution public nuisance and hazard to public health, safety and welfare.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The notice also said, \u201cthe substandard, dilapidated structure(s) on the property needs to be vacated, secured, repaired and brought into compliance, removed or demolished.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The developer who got into a big-time snit with the contractor &#8212; who walked off the job &#8212; had until June 16 to bring the site into compliance. He didn&#8217;t make the grade.<\/p>\n<p>Now well might be the next step, which would be to take action to remove this massive eyesore from our line of sight.<\/p>\n<p>That is all right with me.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Nature has pummeled the half-built apartment complex with wind, rain, hail, extreme heat and extreme cold., Many of the interior structures likely are damaged beyond repair.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to believe it is time for the complex to come down!<\/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>That ticking sound you might hear if you&#8217;re driving along US 380 in Princeton could be the sound of the clock winding down on a project that has been stalled for more than a year. It is a huge &#8220;luxury apartment&#8221; complex of buildings next to Wal-Mart that has gone fallow. The city&#8217;s code compliance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ticking has begun on montrosity<\/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":[10369,9127,8497],"class_list":["post-57277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-apartment-complex","tag-princeton-herald","tag-us-380"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277","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=57277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57279,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions\/57279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}