AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Among the topics Amarillo City Commissioners addressed yesterday, perhaps the most important was the downtown Amarillo redevelopment agreement consent agenda.

Commissioners gave the green light to that agenda that creates a private-public partnership between the city and Wallace Bajjali development partners, to help fix up downtown.

We asked one of them, what exactly does this agreement allow Wallace Bajjali to do?

"To go out finally and develop proposals and budgets and feasbility studies on a hotel, on a multi-purpose events venue and bring those back to us and allow the city at some point to make a decision about whether to procede with the actual building of those facilities," said Brian Eades, Amarillo City Commissioner, Place 2. (full story)