What store, if any, is downtown lacking? / LJWorld.com

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“An electronic store or a small grocery store for people who live in the downtown area.”

— Greg Scott, representative for Department of Education, Lawrence

“Maybe another major department store, where you can buy regular clothing, But for the most part, I love the downtown area.”

— Mahogany Green, coach for KU women’s basketball team, Lawrence

“I miss the Casbah, which was like an organic grocery store; It was nice to be able to buy groceries downtown.”

— Grace Chin, artist , Lawrence

“We could always use more variety as far as fashion trends; something alternative or grungy.”

— Preston Burton,, barista, Lawrence

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zackattackku 10 months ago

Would love to see a Barnes & Noble downtown now that Borders is gone.

My business idea is to open a combination gun store/club, liquor store, and child day care center...call it Bullets, Booze, and Brats (b-cubed). I could add a bait section too. I'm putting together a business plan and looking for investors...hoping to have a nationwide franchise within 5-years.

chootspa 10 months ago

Ikea.

Alceste 10 months ago

A&P; Duckwalls; Town Crier; Pentimento; Tin Pan Alley; Union Cafe; Deluxe Cafe; Woolworth's; you know.....regular people shops: They'll never come back, either.....

jackpot 10 months ago

Something that gives S&H Green stamps?

ridikkulus 10 months ago

How about something that isn't a bar or restaurant? Like Alceste said: "regular people shops"!

RoeDapple 10 months ago

RoeDy's House of Paranoia and Prepper Supply (specializing in tinfoil hats, dog tags and camouflage lingerie)

rockchalker52 10 months ago

A card shop, baby. Retirees like card shops. I mean with a full blown multi-line selection to please or offend that special person in countless ways. I'd muffin mine up, too, with a snack bar & a barista.

RoeDapple 10 months ago

Edible bikini wear?

faceit 10 months ago

Do they make Depends with those specs?

RoeDapple 10 months ago

Not sure, but if you need them I'll find out! ;-)

verity 10 months ago

Now I'm going to have to wipe my brain drive again.

Please have some consideration before you conjure up those kinds of images.

Liberty275 10 months ago

Just smear on some jelly.

labmonkey 10 months ago

Are you sure Indyn isn't radioactive?

Andini 10 months ago

A sports/burrito bar.

GUMnNUTS 10 months ago

That would be AWESOME!

oneeye_wilbur 10 months ago

How. About a dry goods store. Like Litwins was, where one could get a pair of khaki work pants and have them altered right on the. Spot. A. Downtown pawn shop!

oneeye_wilbur 10 months ago

Bazookas!

WereAllMonkeys 10 months ago

brothel

Erin Graham 10 months ago

Penny Annie's :(

gorilla10 10 months ago

McDonalds

LarryNative 10 months ago

Come and gone. Use to be where Chiptoles is now.

labmonkey 10 months ago

How about a union label type shop where they sell American made clothing and other items that are hard to find "Made in USA."

An actual, on topic answer for my #2500. I am only 1/5 the commenter Roe is.

larrydog 10 months ago

Really like this idea!

touringdriver 10 months ago

adult novelty store.

Liberty275 10 months ago

In just what sort of novel items would you be interested? As president and/or governor, I will work to put an adult novelty in every pot.

Vote Liberty275 for governor and president.

Gart 10 months ago

Am on WEREALLMONKEYS side. A nice little whore house in Lawrence. Why not? The way this town throws money around and taxes us it would be fine with me. Problem is that the Whores would own the "elected" politicians. Hmm, probably same difference......

And, a place to buy smokes. Miss you, Round Corner.

And a store that sells bars of dirt and charges for the price of soap. Yeah, you know who.....

Liberty275 10 months ago

Does it have to be little?

Gart 10 months ago

This is pretty good. For only $40 per, well- you know. Save a job??

Invest in a Bull.....O'Le'

Bull Gores Man!! by OrionEdWood

Gart 10 months ago

What does a beef "Rendering Company" really render?

Gart 10 months ago

Answer: A coffee shop. There is absolutely no place to get a good cupajo downtown..........

Sorry for the rant. First night off in 12 days. No coffee. Am done.

LogicMan 10 months ago

On its east side, an Aldi. In the old bookstore?

snap_pop_no_crackle 10 months ago

A lemur-friendly cafe

fred_mertz 10 months ago

J Crew

milkman_dan 10 months ago

Trader Joes and a Biergarten

milkman_dan 10 months ago

Show-Mes

overthemoon 10 months ago

If we're going for nostalgia...Drake's Bakery. Where you could get a real basic diner breakfast at 5 in the morning.

I'd say NO to all of the national chain restaurants and retail stores.

rockchalker52 10 months ago

A pet rock store with make believe fairy dust.

LarryNative 10 months ago

The only good answer I read was a pawn shop.

kernal 10 months ago

Farm to Market Store like those in Tucson and Boulder. Milkman_dan if you like Trader Joe's you would love this store.

fan4kufootball 10 months ago

Hallmark Card store. Seems funny that although Lawrence has a Hallmark Cards production center here but no stores since the one on Iowa no longer carries Hallmark cards. I guess a few grocery stores and Walgreens here in Lawrence carry some.

castarke 10 months ago

Chic-fil-a or a place that specializes in hot dogs!!

rockchalker52 10 months ago

looks like chic-filet doesn't deal in weeners.

ksjayhawk74 10 months ago

There's already a couple of places that specialize in hot dogs in Downtown Lawrence, they have carts.

intheknow 10 months ago

Going back to the good ol' days - NY Bagel. So sad that they couldn't hang on when Einstein's moved in. BEST BAGELS I HAVE EVER EATEN!! I still shed a tear when I walk the east side of the 800 block of Mass.

labmonkey 10 months ago

My favorite place to eat when I lived in Lawrence was MOJO's. It has now been replaced by some hippie restraunt.

wtfusa 10 months ago

Qdoba>Chipole

psycho_theclown 10 months ago

Not by any measure

wtfusa 10 months ago

jimjones 10 months ago

Burrito Bros> Chipotle>Moe's>Qdoba

jonnyboy 10 months ago

A "dime store" Ben Franklin like they have in Brookside in Kansas City.

A store that's a cross between the old Palace (cards), Penny Annies (is open in Eudora!!), has a soda fountain, fun stuff that isn't outrageously priced like Hobbs.

Definitely a bookstore....but people can't sit there and read the books so that when you go to buy a book, it looks like a used book!

Frankie8 10 months ago

A book store devoted to Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin novels and all things from the British Navy from 1795-1815, and a few collectibles and odds and ends like cookbooks, a sextant, a bell, an hourglass, a sea chest, a really great model of the Surprise. Etc. etc.

pace 10 months ago

I hardly ever want a chain store, but I wish there was a Walgreens downtown, maybe on 10 hundred block.

patkindle 10 months ago

Free trade items only, best paid employees, with lots of benefits Lowest prices, discounts for seniors, and out of towners, Plus discounts for everyone not a senior, or out of towner Open all hours, free wifi and doggy friendly Free shuttle and delivery
Politically correct, diversity prone And hemp friendly

jimjones 10 months ago

407 Main Street Kansas City, MO 64105 (816) 842-0152

Their hours are really short, just 11:00am until 4:00PM I think. Call to make sure.

cf7286 10 months ago

I miss Play it Again Sports. I also think it would be kinda cool if there was a open air market for local venders to set up booths with all kinds of things for sale. I'm not trying to take anything away from the farmers market, but someting other than produce. The art fair is always fun to stroll through. Someting with that kind of vibe.

grammaddy 10 months ago

A second hand children'sclothing store. There used to be 2 downtown, now there are none.Bring back Children's Orchard. And a Barnes & Noble.

chucklehead 10 months ago

Did that place called something like Doodlebugs close?

ksjayhawk74 10 months ago

How about a place that has Mexican food, ice cream and KU merchandise.

classclown 10 months ago

Yellow House

CHEEZIT 10 months ago

Panda Express!!!

Xwards 10 months ago

Forget restaurants and bars...there's enough of those. How about a men's clothing store?

patkindle 10 months ago

Free trade items only, best paid employees, with lots of benefits Lowest prices, discounts for seniors, and out of towners, Plus discounts for everyone not a senior, or out of towner Open all hours, free wifi and doggy friendly Free shuttle and delivery Politically correct, diversity prone And hemp friendly

snap_pop_no_crackle 10 months ago

The text so nice you had to post it twice, pat?

oneeye_wilbur 10 months ago

Pawn shop, small convenience store that sells consumables. Keep the inventory turning over. Sell 6packs of beer. Keep it simple. To do this the existing buildings are too linear or way too big. Backdoor business and front side business is the only way to keep rent and overhead down, otherwise anything more is destined to go broke.

Renaissance 10 months ago

How about a more old crotchety, less organized version of Ernst & Sons.

JackMcKee 10 months ago

How does that place stay open? Is it just a novelty to the owners?

Liberty275 10 months ago

There are enough stores downtown for me to ignore. We don't need another one.

independent_rebel 10 months ago

What is really lacking, and what we really must have, is restaurant that serves us coffee, alcohol, mexician & chinese food, and pizza. No doubt it had better sell KU merchandise and overpriced nick-nacks, too. Of course, said business would need to be filled to the brim with drunk KU students and drunk homeless beggars. A bonus would be if there is some sort of "taxpayer-purchased art" located in front of the business. Oh, and it must be located in a building owned by either Doug Compton or George Paley.

Then, and only then, would it feel like Lawrence!

crispysyn 10 months ago

Gear Zone, Hot Topic, bring back 7th Heaven, an old fashion Arcade.

JackMcKee 10 months ago

Oh...a place that sells bongs, booze or Mexican would be nice.

gl0ck0wn3r 10 months ago

A gun store that isn't a pawn shop.

BabuTheOld 10 months ago

Decent clothing store for folks more like a branch than a twig, and between 35 and 60 yrs old. Weavers has the rest covered!

larrytowngirl 10 months ago

Red Lobster!!! .. or a discount store like Big Lot.

LiddleKiddles62 10 months ago

The comments are taking me back to the good old days of downtown Lawrence....remember Malott Toys, Haas Imports, Litwins/Penneys, Duckwalls (we used to buy school supplies there each year), Ben Franklins, Woolworths (they had a lunch counter, didn't they have a beauty parlor, too?), Drakes Bakery, Granada and The Varsity movie theaters, the A&P next to the Granada where we would buy Cracker Jacks to take to the movies, Lawrence National Bank with the cool huge clock and.....last but not least---The Red Dog Inn!! And BTW, does anyone remember the elevator operator in Weavers ('What floor please?') It was the cool old fashioned kind with the metal cage doors. Oh, I miss the old downtown Lawrence!