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Advance Amarillo, Support Downtown Redevelopment!

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Stan Morris
11 years ago

I am a retired senior citizen. who wants a better Amarillo for younger and future generations. This plan, which has been developed with a great amount of carefully considered input over a number of years, is a three legged stool that requires a multi-purpose event center, a parking facility and a convention hotel. Removing any of the "legs" will cause the plan to collapse and delay the redevelopment of downtown, with related city-wide, for years. Amarillo needs to move ahead with this plan now.

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Anonymous
11 years ago

I support the Downtown Redevelopment efforts...I want to see downtown thrive.

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Rob Parker
11 years ago

Not costing me a cent!

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Tom Riney
11 years ago

Amarillo is on the verge of tremendous progress. Let's not go backwards.

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Meganne Walsh
11 years ago

I have a small business downtown, I attend church downtown and I support downtown re development.

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Mary M. Bearde
11 years ago

We must support the redevelopment initiative so that Amarillo can be a thriving place to live and work.

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Pedro Limas
11 years ago

As a small business owner and a father of kids that may stay in Amarillo for the long haul, I would like to express my excitement of what is in store for us if we move forward with this project. I have considered all the great possibilities would open up for our great city. "Let's get going......"

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Bruce Dodge
11 years ago

As one of the real estate brokers representing Xcel for their new building in this area, I should say that we likely would not have moved forward with this transaction if we felt that this larger re-development was in jeopardy. Speaking from personal experience working on re-developments across the country, moving forward with this project will only invite significant more investment in Amarillo's downtown. Typically, this type of investment invites more residential / loft development. With new residential development, retail follows. Having followed this closely over the past 2 - 3 years, I think it would be wise to make this investment in the downtown core.

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John Kanelis
11 years ago

Let's move forward.

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Penelope Davies
11 years ago

Extremely important to help Amarillo to continue to move forward! The additional conventions would be invaluable for Amarillo!

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Ross Clopton
11 years ago

We are leaving town early in the morning, but we certainly are certainly supporters. .This is important for our whole city.

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Donna Clopton
11 years ago

Ross and I would like to be able to attend the meeting tomorrow to show our support; however, we will be out of town. This is important and needs to go forward.

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Adair Buckner
11 years ago

We desperately need this in Amarillo to get conventions here.

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Adair Buckner
11 years ago

We desperately need this in Amarillo to get conventions here.

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steve turner
11 years ago

lets do this. Amarillo needs this

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Kevin Nelson
11 years ago

Downtown doesn't belong to anyone, it belongs to everyone. We can do something great together; something that none of us could do on our own; something that future generations will remember and will be encouraged by, even after the structures we build are gone. We are pioneers and risk takers. We can do things together that will spark a fire in our souls and will lead to things that can’t be measured or predicted. Let’s do it!

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John R. Douglass
11 years ago

let's do it.

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Scott L Raef
11 years ago

As a pastor of a downtown church, I love that downtown is and has the potential even more to be everyone's neighborhood. This is about quality of life that makes Amarillo more attractive to those who love urban amenities even as we are grateful for our rural atmosphere. My deepest appreciation to all our city leaders who have helped us get this far, even to the point of being unappreciated and maligned by those rooted in negativity and are consistently against almost everything. C'mon Amarillo. Let's make our great city even greater.

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Esmeralda Padron
11 years ago

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Anonymous
11 years ago

Frisco has a super nice stadium/event center and convention hotel with great shopping and restaurants around. It was impressive