Fresh news delivered to you every day. Visit our Circulation department for print subscription information. You could hear a touch of pain in Cindy Hurt's voice as she walked around the Swisher County Courthouse Square in Tulia. Here's another empty building and these two are trying to close. The Tulia business community finds itself in dire straits these days said Hurt, Hale County Bank vice president.
Times are bad right now.
That's more than half. With agricultural commodity prices in the doldrums the past several years and gasoline, diesel and natural gas prices more than doubling over last year's cost, the immediate future doesn't look much better. With that in mind, Hurt said city officials have decided to take steps to try and begin to turn things around in Tulia. Hurt, TMS chairwoman, originated the idea to take one of Tulia's vacant buildings on the square and develop it into a viable market attraction. Beginning July 13, Tulia Market Square will open once each month at a formerly vacant building that used to be a drugstore at 101 E. Broadway.