So, you’re not much of a dancer, I hear. Well, maybe a sushi roll will put an extra wiggle in your step. You soon may get a chance to find out because a new restaurant that combines sushi and nightlife is set to open in downtown Lawrence.

An establishment called Prime Blu by Wasabi has filed plans to open in the former American Eagle Outfitters site at 619 Massachusetts. David Kwon, the manager for the new restaurant, said the company operates three traditional sushi restaurants called Wasabi in Wichita. The group wants to open a location in Lawrence, but thinks it ought to have a slightly different feel.

“Our concept is not to have a complete club theme, but it will bring good sushi with a club vibe,” Kwon said.

That means the location will feature a large bar, and the owners are hoping to incorporate a dance floor into the plans as well. Remodeling work has begun at the site, and Kwon said he hopes the business will open between late November and early January.

Sushi rolls are expected to be the big menu item at the establishment. Kwon said the restaurant will feature more than 50 different sushi rolls, with a variety of fish, shrimp, lobster crab and other seafood available.

“There will be lots of choices,” Kwon said. “It is just a matter of whether you like the raw ingredients or the cooked.”

In other news and notes from around town:

• I told you I would try to find out more information about who is behind the group called Lawrencians Against the New Police Headquarters. Well, at the moment Conor Brown, a Lawrence resident who is a produce farmer who also works at the Lawrence Farmers’ Market is the lead organizer of the group.

Brown got in touch with me after I mentioned in a Town Talk column last week that I had seen the group on Facebook, but wasn’t sure who its leader was. The group is holding its first organizational meeting at 7 p.m. today at the Lawrence Public Library. I think that meeting will determine what shape this group takes and how active it will be in the campaign for the November sales tax question for the approximately $28 million police headquarters facility.

Brown said he hasn’t filed any paperwork for the group to become a political action committee, which would allow it to raise money and do political advertising as part of the campaign. But he said if others want to take that step, he’s not opposed to it. Brown said he mainly decided to try to form a group after he saw a citizens group had formed to support the ballot measure. He said he’s concerned the issue may win public approval without much of a public debate.

“I think we have jumped headlong into it as a city and not looked at other options,” Brown said. “I think we’re relying too much on an architect’s recommendation.”

Brown said he thinks the public also ought to ask for some changes at the Lawrence Police Department before it approves a large expenditure for the department. In particular, he said the city needs some sort of citizens review board for the police department. The city has a Citizens’ Advisory Board for the police department, but its role largely is confined to reviewing information about racial profiling. Brown said other cities have a more robust review board that looks at all aspects of the police department.

Plus, Brown said he just doesn’t like the financial details of the proposed 0.2 percent sales tax that would raise about $24 million of the approximately $28 million needed for the project.

“It seems like a lot of money, and I’m really against the idea of a regressive tax,” Brown said.

I’ll be at a City Commission meeting tonight, but I’ll do my best to check in with the group as well to see what type of turnout it had, and what its plans are for moving forward.

• Some quick numbers for you. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released it gross domestic product numbers for all metro areas today. I think the numbers are interesting because they measure the total value of goods and services produced in a community. In other words, they’re a good measure of the size of your overall economy.

The good news for Lawrence is that its economy grew in 2013. Lawrence’s GDP of $3.83 billion grew 0.4 percent for the year. The bad news is that is less than the national average for metro areas. Nationally, metro areas grew by 1.7 percent in 2013. The 0.4 percent growth rate also was the slowest for Lawrence since 2010, when GDP actually shrunk by 2.1 percent.

Growth in northeast Kansas was a mixed bag in 2013. Kansas City’s GDP grew by 1.4 percent, but Topeka’s shrunk by 1 percent and Manhattan’s shrunk by 1.5 percent. The Manhattan GDP was among the poorest faring in the country. Wichita’s GDP grew by 0.7 percent.

There are a lot more numbers in the report, but I haven’t yet sorted through all of them. As I find some more interesting numbers, I’ll let you know.