{"id":58485,"date":"2025-06-11T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58485"},"modified":"2025-06-11T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:05:52","slug":"what-gives-on-us-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58485","title":{"rendered":"What gives on US 380?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">My 75-year-old trick knee is throbbing for the first time in a good while and it&#8217;s telling me there might something amiss with that big apartment construction job that has been underway on U.S. 380 here in Princeton, Texas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The site has gone dark &#8230; again! No sign of any work being done there for about the past three weeks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>You&#8217;ll recall that the general contractor walked off the job about three years ago when he\/she got into a snit with the developer. I thought they would just knock the buildings down and start over with something different. I didn&#8217;t know what I was thinking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Princeton City Council agreed to let the developer proceed with a new contractor. It set a timetable for completion of the 300-unit complex billed originally as a &#8220;luxury apartment&#8221; site.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. I merely am using this blog to vent my continuing frustration with the on-off-again project that doesn&#8217;t seem to be gaining any traction.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Just think, soon the Texas highway department is going to tear the crap out of the roadway that runs through my city &#8230; making any commuting through Princeton a nightmare.<\/p>\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>My 75-year-old trick knee is throbbing for the first time in a good while and it&#8217;s telling me there might something amiss with that big apartment construction job that has been underway on U.S. 380 here in Princeton, Texas. The site has gone dark &#8230; again! No sign of any work being done there for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What gives on US 380?<\/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":[4936,8497],"class_list":["post-58485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-txdot","tag-us-380"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58485","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=58485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58487,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58485\/revisions\/58487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}