News and notes from up and down Sixth Street: — More than 30 years of Lawrence restaurant tradition hangs in the balance. The longtime westside restaurant and bar Henry’s T’s announced on Monday that it has closed its lone Lawrence location near Sixth and Kasold. But the restaurant ...
Here are some news and notes from around town: — A Kansas City-based auto dealer is on the way out, while one with both Kansas City and Lawrence connections is set to replace it. McCarthy Nissan of Lawrence is in the process of exiting the Lawrence market, while Dream Nissan — which has ...
In a world of increasingly outlandish conference realignment rumors — many of which, indeed, seem totally ridiculous until they come to fruition — the latest bit of gossip to take the nation by storm has a refreshing familiarity. The University of Colorado has been floated, discussed and ...
I spent the summer after my junior year of college interning at a sports tech company by day and sleeping in a converted office in a home in the Troostwood neighborhood of Kansas City by night. When I was free from work on the weekend and desperate for entertainment, I used to walk down in the ...
Home sales in Lawrence continue to fall, and now are doing so at a rate significantly faster than our neighbors in the Kansas City metro area. But on the flip side, housing prices are beginning to fall, and they too are dropping at a rate faster than in Kansas City communities. Lawrence ...
Restaurant trends in Lawrence have been known to swing like the pendulum on a clock. When it comes to Mexican restaurants, though, it may be more like a wrecking ball on the end of a cable. Indeed, two Mexican restaurant buildings soon will be demolished, according to plans filed at Lawrence ...
When we reported in February that the auto salvage yard near the fairgrounds was closing, I was skeptical of how long it would take to remove the hundreds of broken-down vehicles from the 9-acre lot. (As I’ve told my neighbors many times, gravity will get a car off of blocks, but then the ...
If you wanted to fry an egg on a Lawrence sidewalk, there long has been an obvious day to do it: the third Thursday of July, which is the traditional date for the Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale. As a journalist, I can tell you TV crews and others have done such pieces over the years to ...
Let’s do some news and notes from around town: — I guess the saying is “as easy as taking candy from a baby.” I never bought it. (My kids came with a full set of shark teeth, which made candy removal and braces bills painful.) But I could believe something like “as easy as selling ...
Pick which set of glasses you want to look through today. Lawrence is the fourth-fastest growing city in Kansas. Or, if you prefer, Lawrence is only growing at one-third the rate city leaders expect, and is being outpaced by relatively small communities like Spring Hill, Tonganoxie and ...
For years, there have been people talking about how nice it would be to have a Lawrence business offering food and drink with true waterside seating. Despite the interest, and even some publicly discussed plans, such an establishment has never developed along the portions of the Kansas River ...
It appears my bloodstream soon will get a boost from dips of Braum’s ice cream, and a northwest Lawrence retail development will get a boost from the Oklahoma-based hamburger and dessert chain as well. Yes, plans are underway for a Braum’s restaurant to locate in Lawrence. According to ...
For more than a decade, the intersection of the South Lawrence Trafficway and U.S. Highway 59 has been circled by developers as a prime location for big-box stores and commercial development. Times have changed. If a Wichita developer has his way, the first thing he’ll get to build at the ...
Berry Global, the plastics manufacturer that employs hundreds in Lawrence, is closing at least 15 of its manufacturing plants, but hasn’t yet announced which plants are on the chopping block. Indiana-based Berry disclosed the future plant closings as part of its second-quarter earnings call ...
Both the bathroom scale and I get nervous any time the word “aweigh” is uttered in my house. But with weekend temperatures forecast to be in the 90s, I may untie from the couch and yell “anchors aweigh” nonetheless. For those of you doing the same and venturing to nearby Perry Lake, ...
A lot of beers, a lot of burgers, a lot of french fries. For one local restaurant owner, that makes a lot of sense for downtown Lawrence. The owner of Mr. Brews Taphouse has signed a deal to open a second Lawrence location to go with its existing restaurant on south Iowa Street. The new spot ...
The phrase “some assembly required” doesn’t strike fear in me. I’m confident I will assemble some of it. But, in the end, it often leaves me bewildered. (Why did they send an extra bag of bolts, and why didn’t they say in the instructions that I was going to need this much duct tape?) ...
There’s a new women’s clothing boutique in downtown Lawrence that aims to create outfits from head to toe — and sometimes that means a cowboy hat for those heads. Season Seven Boutique has opened recently at 714 Massachusetts Street. Co-owner Berkley Sharp said the store wants to meet ...
Replace the salsa with marinara, and get out the time machine. The owners of La Parrilla have closed that downtown Latin American restaurant and will use the space to reopen their once-popular Italian eatery, Genovese, which closed in 2019. Armando Paniagua, an owner of the restaurant ...
A fire in the unsanctioned homeless camp behind the East Lawrence Amtrak depot on Monday produced flames tall and wide enough for motorists to see as they drove into downtown from North Lawrence. The flames have long since been extinguished, but questions about the camp continue to smolder at ...
