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 ...
After more than a decade of rumors, they are finally true: Costco has plans to come to Lawrence. The membership-only discount retailer that is famous for everything from mega-sized household goods to low-priced food court lunches has filed plans at City Hall to build a 166,000-square-foot ...