A couple of news and notes from around town:
Given that the weather felt like 40-below zero not long ago, perhaps few people noticed that a new Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop planned for 23rd Street was taking a long time to open.
But I did, because I absolutely still ate ice cream even when it was that cold. (It actually was the best time to order a triple dip — you could eat one while you stored the ...
The highly caffeinated “bros” are coming to Lawrence. Dutch Bros. Coffee has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall to build a new drive-thru coffee shop along south Iowa Street.
The shop will be the first in Lawrence for the West Coast company, and it will be taking a spot that once was set aside for an expanding Arkansas chain of coffee shops. Dutch Bros. plans to build its new 950-square foot drive-thru ...
A multimillion-dollar project to rehabilitate an old Iowa Street motel into a detox and substance abuse treatment center is scheduled to begin in April, developers of the project have confirmed.
We reported in September that Lawrence restaurateur David Hawley and Eudora construction company owner Aaron Thakker had reached a deal to purchase the Super 8 motel at 801 Iowa St. and convert it into an extended stay ...
A Kansas City family who just marked its 100th year in the Kansas City market has completed a deal to expand into Lawrence.
The Bob Sight Auto Group on Tuesday took over ownership of both the Honda and Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram dealerships on south Iowa Street. The company bought the two dealerships from Lawrence-based Dale Willey Automotive, which will continue to operate the Chevrolet and GMC dealership ...
One short bang does not cancel out one long thud.
That, at least, is the case for Lawrence home sales in 2023. The number of homes sold in December did indeed produce a bang, growing by nearly 35% from a year earlier. However, that end-of-year surge was nowhere near enough to stop 2023 from becoming the third straight year of declining home sales in Lawrence.
Home sales in Lawrence fell by 21.9% in 2023 ...
The north end of downtown Lawrence soon may have everything from ice skating to a food hall full of small restaurants.
And to make it more unique, it would all be in the same spot. (I’m already dangerous on skates, but if I have a fork and knife in my hand, I’m going to have to increase my insurance policy.)
The proposed developer of a major project to convert the former Journal-World printing plant near ...
