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Is this it? Is this the corner that an abandoned, dilapidated, rotting hulk of a downtown Amarillo office building needs to return to life?<\/p>\n

A Dallas developer, Tom Pauken, has just foreclosed on the long-abandoned Barfield Building, wrestling it away from its owner who’s said for longer than anyone can remember that, by golly, he’s going to find someone to develop the structure.<\/p>\n

Todd Harmon hasn’t delivered the goods. From where I sit, it doesn’t appear that he ever will.<\/p>\n

Enter the group headed by Pauken, a lawyer, real estate developer who’s worked with property in Amarillo, former Texas Republican Party chairman — and a longtime friend of yours truly. (I thought I’d\u00a0throw that last thing in for grins and giggles.)<\/p>\n

Pauken leads a group called Henderson Willis Ltd., which has foreclosed on mortgage notes totaling about $550,000 on the building at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Polk Street.<\/p>\n

It’s a complicated procedure, but as of today Pauken’s limited partnership has control of the Barfield Building. The former controlling owner, Harmon, so far hasn’t responded to media requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Pauken’s foreclosure comes as well after another Amarillo business group sought to develop the Barfield Building, only to have Harmon get it back in some more complicated maneuvering.<\/p>\n

What is Pauken’s aim here? He wants to find someone to invest in breathing life back into the Barfield Building. Harmon had gutted the ground floor and a few floors above. Then the work stopped. The ground floor was boarded up and the crews walked away; that was\u00a0a decade ago.<\/p>\n

It has sat vacant, rotting ever since.<\/p>\n

Pauken said he believes the Barfield “is a natural” for some sort of redevelopment. Harmon had sought to turn the 88-year-old building into a combination of apartments, retail shops, a restaurant, day spa, bank branch, coffee house — and Lord knows what else.<\/p>\n

Enter the Pauken group, headed by someone who’s already had some success redeveloping property in downtown Amarillo.<\/p>\n

Can this group do what no one else has been able to do? I am cautiously optimistic my pal Tom can get ‘er done.<\/p>\n

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