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Do you think downtown Lawrence needs more apartments and/or a hotel/retail space like the proposed Ninth and New Hampshire streets development?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on June 27, 2012
“More people in the area for that building means more business for everyone. I think the people who oppose are just resistant to change. It (would be) aesthetically pleasing and have an upscale feel.”
“I think it’s a good thing because options are always a good thing, for apartments or whatever.”
“I don’t think so — I think the cost would be too high (for area people to use the building), and parking’s already not great.”
“I don’t think we need more downtown apartments — we need cultural developments instead.”
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Comments
RoeDapple 10 months, 4 weeks ago
needs a Lowes . . . first.
Gart 10 months, 4 weeks ago
No. It is Downtown LAWRENCE, KANSAS.... Think about it.
BTW. I met some shirtless guy who was "bathing" in Potters "Pond" a few days back. He was really excited to tell me that he had some "crawdads" in his underwear...... Not sure why.
He asked me to spread the word of something or another and tell Lawrence that he was going to "climb the mountain and touch the sky." I think he may have been on drugs.
Topple 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Doesn't sound like drugs to me!
RoeDapple 10 months, 4 weeks ago
It was too hot to fire up the lead pot at 4;00AM. Ah, well, just went out and rolled around in the grass clippings for a while. . . . ♣free the blog♣ . . . .
♣RIP multi♣
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 10 months, 4 weeks ago
The hotel is cool, especially with the underground parking garage. I love the acoustics they provide. Downtown needs a muffler shop, a fruit stand, and some other stuff.
It's a dry heat.
LadyJ 10 months, 4 weeks ago
The story of her infamous blog that would not die (at least not without a lot of effort by the LJW) will live on amongst the JW employees and bloggers. ♣free the blog♣
rantor 10 months, 4 weeks ago
That blog actually lowered the intelligence of LJW. Thank God it is gone. As for Multi, hasn't she been gone already?
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Lawrence also needs a Community Blood Center again...
George_Braziller 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Before building more apartments or hotels, how about first getting some of the businesses and services back in the downtown area that people already living there need on a daily basis like a gas station and a drug store. I live a block from downtown and rarely ever go unless I'm meeting someone for lunch.
If they want more people living in the downtown area there has to be some place where they can pick up a quart of milk, a tube of toothpaste, or a package of diapers.
jafs 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Kind of a chicken/egg sort of thing, don't you think? If there isn't enough demand for those stores, they won't build them. And, if they're not there, more people won't necessarily want to live downtown.
George_Braziller 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Round Corner Drugstore didn't close because there wasn't a need or demand. It closed because of Tom's health issues.
jafs 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Ok. But no other drugstore has opened in it's place, right?
George_Braziller 10 months, 4 weeks ago
That doesn't mean there isn't a need for one. Not advocating for a Walgreens per se, but a smaller version of something that in the downtown area would make a killing. It has the perfect mix of merchandise downtown is lacking for the many different personalities it goes through within 24 hours. The mix of people downtown at 8 a.m. is completely different than the mix at 8 p.m. and different than the mix at 1 a.m.
jafs 10 months, 3 weeks ago
My point is, that if businesses perceive a market, they'll open businesses.
And, at the same time, if people perceive the area as having the amenities they want, they'll move there.
It's circular in nature, and hard to know which comes first.
George_Braziller 10 months, 3 weeks ago
And my point is that there's already an existing market for it.
CWGOKU 10 months, 4 weeks ago
I am all for development and progress, but a hotel? Not sure, but I think, no. I miss Bob
jonas_opines 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Well, finally my posts are being processed.
none2 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Lawrence needs manufacturing jobs.
Also it would be nice if we had one of Kansas' gambling rights. Imagine something like the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas being here. Then you would get volumes of people interested in coming to Lawrence.
merrill 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Hotels are typically low wage job centers which in reality cannot support living in Lawrence.
RoeDapple 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Doc? Doc? I'm here Doc, where are you?
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JackMcKee 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Here's what we have, new apartments cannibalizing old apartments and rental properties. This town has a love affair with new construction, even when it's not needed or wanted. To grow Lawrence and it's economy we need jobs. Good jobs. Not part time waiter/bartender/dishwasher gigs. Lawrence should have a good tech centered economy. We have a University sitting right in the middle of town that can produce educated workers. Of course, the city "leaders" (aka developers) always take the easy way out and ask us, the taxpayer, to help fund their excess. Will things ever change in this town?
misterlee 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Construction produces jobs. Apartments don't build themselves.
JackMcKee 10 months, 4 weeks ago
This is true, but it would be much better if the construction jobs were being created by growth in the economy with high paying, growing industries, like tech. Not just by filing in empty space.
Frankie8 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Well, you know jobs like dishwashers and waiters will always be needed unless people want to serve themselves at a restaurant and then clean up. What about the maids in the hotel? Does anything ever think about all the invisible people in the background who make life pleasant for others? What about the constructions workers who will get paychecks from putting this building up? Sure, it is a temp job if you chose to look at it that way, but what construction job isn't?
JackMcKee 10 months, 4 weeks ago
which is perfect for a rental economy, which is where we're heading in Lawrence, so maybe it all balances out. We'll have the serfs washing dishes and cleaning rooms and we';; have the lords building apartment complexes where they can live. All we need is the company store where they can buy their groceries.
booyalab 10 months, 3 weeks ago
In more desperate times, I've had jobs cleaned rooms and washed dishes and I'm not gonna lie, it sucks. But there is no easy way of getting skills in order to qualify for better work and there are no jobs (that I know of) for unskilled people that involve sitting around and eating bonbons.
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