It is safety first for this holiday weekend, which means I’m testing the strength of my elastic waistbands. The only thing that gets stretched harder during the season is my wallet, but the testing of the waistband is more fun. (It may or may not have involved me eating three pieces of pie ...
The top two vote-winners in the recent Lawrence City Commission election promised a group of home builders Friday that change indeed is coming to Lawrence. The most visible sign of it, they suggested, will be a lot more growth for the community. “What has been said to me is that we ...
As KU says it has a bed shortage for its record high enrollments, a Lawrence developer has an idea for how to turn approximately 40 bedrooms near the edge of campus into more than 300. But he’s going to need to turn a former garden center property in central Lawrence into a parking lot to ...
News and notes from around town: — Plans have been filed for a new upscale apartment complex in northwest Lawrence. A Nebraska development company hopes to build about 125 units of “luxury, class A” apartment units near the intersection of Queens Road and Wakarusa Drive. If you are ...
Some news and notes from Tuesday’s local elections in Lawrence and Douglas County: ••• A big takeaway in the Lawrence City Commission race is that voters were of one mind about two people. You used to hear of how Lawrence had an east-west divide on local, political matters. There ...
News and notes from around town: ••• If you really like bars, there’s a pending downtown development that may make your head spin (or pound): Two new apartments in between the very active downtown bars The Bottleneck and Leroy’s. However, there is a catch. The two apartments will ...