From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 2, 1987:

• Following the demise of the downtown-mall proposal, developers were turning their eyes toward the Lawrence riverfront as an area of possible development. Specifically, planners were casting their eyes at the site just east of city hall at Sixth and Massachusetts, in the former industrial area along the south bank of the Kansas River. So far, any riverfront possibilities were still merely in the talking phase, as a development in that area would require such complications as purchasing some land from the city and the Bowersock company.
• Lawrence postmaster Bill Reynolds this morning had started off on a 10-mile walk around town, visiting all the collection boxes which were usually handled by postal workers in vehicles. Reynolds’ employees, the members of the local post-office staff, had pledged over $500 that Reynolds would complete his portion of the “walkathon,” which was a Kansas effort to raise money for cancer research.