Lawrence businesswoman studying options for Baldwin City property

The new owner of the property at 215 N. Sixth St. in Baldwin City is mulling her options for the use of the property.

The property, with its old farmhouse and shop, had been the home of Pink Lady Consignment. Karen Sue Carlson, who owns the CopperLeaf Gourmet at 1800 E. 23rd St. in Lawrence, said she purchased the property last year with a specific use in mind. CopperLeaf Gourmet is a “small manufacturing company and wholesale business,” she said.

“I’m a small business owner, and my intent is to start a small business in Baldwin,” she said. “It’s a cool town. I think there is a lot of potential there, and the people are great.”

Carlson said she was now exploring the “best use” for the one-acre plot. She anticipated it would take at least two months before she was ready to announce plans.

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Elsewhere in Baldwin City, it may appear from the variety of vintage items recently placed behind storefront windows that a new business will soon be opening downtown at the former home of In Focus Photography, but that is not the case. Meg Cundiff said she rented the storefront at 723 Eighth St. for use as an artist studio, specifically her current work on an art project for a children’s hospital in Texas.

Once that project is finished and the home she is building north of Baldwin City is completed, she is open to consideration of a commercial use of the property, Cundiff said.

“I’m thinking maybe this summer I’ll open a cooperative with some artist friends,” she said. “I’m too busy right now.”

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