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Tonight will be another big night for the Warehouse Arts District, which is what the area around the old Poehler Building at Eighth and Pennsylvania streets is being called. As we reported last week, city commissioners tonight will consider investing several hundred thousand dollars into infrastructure repairs in the area ...
The best way to travel Iowa Street this summer will be via helicopter. City commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting are set to approve the city’s 2013 street maintenance program. No surprise here: Iowa Street will be the star of the show this year. As we have reported multiple times, ...
Maybe a new streak is about to begin. Last year at this time [we were reporting][1] how the Lawrence homebuilding industry had hit a new low. In 2011, Lawrence builders saw their streak of at least 55 years in a row of building 100 homes or more snapped. Builders started ...
The business of attracting lucrative retirees to live in Lawrence and Douglas County is beginning to get a clearer price tag. It looks like it will take around $60,000 to $80,000 worth of advertising a year to get the job done. Lawrence city commissioners at their Tuesday meeting are being ...
Another week almost down, which means another week of property sales and land transfers as recorded by the Douglas County Register of Deeds office. [You can click here][1] to see the complete list of sales for the week ending Jan. 7. There were a few sales of note, but before ...
In recent weeks, we’ve written about how you might want to keep your eyes open for a future shake-up in the Lawrence Internet service provider market. City officials [recently agreed to hire a consultant][1] to study whether the city can use the miles of city-owned fiber optic cable to create ...
This year will mark 25 years of walking around a corner in downtown Lawrence and saying “What the . . .” I’m talking about the 25th Annual Outdoor Downtown Sculpture Exhibition. (Although, it is downtown Lawrence, so I could be talking about any number of things.) But pieces of sculpture ...
There will be all types of shots taken at the proposed Rock Chalk Park and the city’s $25 million recreation center. There will be bank shots, hook shots, 33-foot three-point shots, that come up three feet short, taken by my teammate who never passes the ball. You get the idea. ...
There soon will be about 70 more ways for my wife to get an overtime parking ticket in downtown Lawrence, and a majority of downtown property owners seem happy about it. In fact, a pretty big majority, it seems. If you remember, city commissioners have been waiting for the results ...
Soon enough, you’ll start seeing big changes in downtown Lawrence. Construction work already is underway on a $19 million library expansion, work on a multistory hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and New Hampshire should begin any day, and by summer work likely will be ongoing for a multistory ...
It is not quite like a wonderful Western Sizzlin' buffet where you can get spaghetti and meatballs, mashed potatoes, whipped pudding, mashed potatoes, tacos and mashed potatoes all on the same plate. But City Hall officials have created a buffet of sorts of possible tax increases to pay for a ...
Well, now it is going to be particularly awkward when I ricochet a golf ball off one of the 900 new apartments that will be built as part of The Links development in northwest Lawrence. The project, which is a bit east of the Rock Chalk Park Sports complex, has ...
Sure, there are still all the usual things you can do in downtown Lawrence after having a nice dinner. You can take a leisurely stroll down Massachusetts Street. You can have a cupcake, or two, at one of the many such shops. You can get four or five dips of ...
There is bad news for the good dog. Lawrence-based Good Dog! Biscuits & Treats — the nonprofit company that employs residents of the Lawrence Community Shelter — has closed after losing key grant funding. The maker of all-natural dog biscuits and other treats notified its retail partners earlier this month ...
If you are a fan of Old Navy, feel free to blow your fog horn and do your best Popeye impersonation. A development that is proposing to bring Old Navy, Academy Sports, Designer Shoe Warehouse and a host of other retailers to south Iowa Street has cleared its first hurdle ...
I've always said that if I could find Lance Armstrong's old bicycle, I would enter the Tour de France, because the bike clearly was the secret to his success. Well, I may be in luck. Lawrence has a new business that specializes in used bicycles. (And just in time for ...
The type of fireworks that gets the dog excited, the neighbors awake and the ATF knocking on your door may be over, but there are new fireworks, of sorts, that may get Lawrence shoppers excited. Boom . . . Old Navy. Boom . . . Academy Sports. And just for ...
Don't get your tool belt all in a bunch. The proposed Menards store near 31st and Iowa streets indeed is still on track to happen, even though it has been a year since the project was approved and construction still hasn't begun. I know the delay has some of you ...
Maybe at this time next year, you'll see Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari at West Lawrence's Six Mile Chophouse, or Michigan State's Tom Izzo at downtown's Pachamama's, or Missouri coach Kim Anderson at North Lawrence's circus school. Indeed, it looks like the city's recreation center/fieldhouse at Rock Chalk Park is ...
It is official now: Sprouts Farmers Market will be the new grocery store that will be constructed near Sixth and Wakarusa in the Bauer Farm development. We've been reporting for months that a specialty grocer was coming to the intersection, and it hasn't exactly been a secret that Sprouts was ...
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