UPDATED 2:30 P.M. AUG. 19 A company that already employs about 150 high-paid pipefitters and sheetmetal workers at Lawrence VenturePark is beginning the process to build a second production center in the eastern Lawrence business park. US Engineering has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall ...
News and notes from around town: — The day is likely coming that you could travel from the east side of town to the west side of town and have a piece of Casey’s pizza the whole way. And, of course, this in no way involves eating more slowly. Rather, there are signs that a ...
If pigs could fly ... they still might not be as indispensable as the one inside the bathroom of Footprints, the longtime Lawrence shoe store on south Massachusetts Street. That pig — a tile version on the bathroom wall — has a toilet paper dispenser hanging out of its rear end. Soon, ...
UPDATED 9:25 P.M. AUG. 11 They say football is a game of inches. So too, is an approximately $750 million redevelopment of KU’s football stadium, as evidenced by the thickness of the legal documents governing the project. There’s a big — 262 pages — and important document up for ...
I have never gotten excited about the phrase “Christmas in July” because it usually has ended with a touch of heat stroke after cutting down a pine tree in the Kansas heat. But City Hall officials may be appreciative of the phrase about now. The state’s July sales tax report showed a ...
A publicly-traded company that provides all sorts of “smart home” technology, has filed plans to convert a long-vacant building in downtown Lawrence into a new office home for about 70 of its high-tech, high-paid employees. The Nasdaq-traded tech firm Alarm.com is seeking financial ...