Lawrence City Hall has received a development filing that would open the door for 500 units of new apartments — totaling more than 1,000 bedrooms — to be built on the far eastern edge of Lawrence.
If approved, it may be one of the first tangible signs of the impact Panasonic’s pending 4,000-job, $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto will have on Lawrence’s east side.
The project would ...
It has been a brutal end of the summer for Lawrence’s real estate industry, with sales in July and August falling by 35% from a year ago, according to the most recent statistics.
Home sales in Lawrence were down 45% in July and then were down 23% in August, according to numbers compiled by the Lawrence Board of Realtors.
You can blame the heat, if you want, and you might be figuratively correct. Potential ...
Updated at 1:52 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27
The University of Kansas has its largest freshman class ever, and has hit a new 13-year high in enrollment, according to figures released by the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday.
In addition, the new numbers for the fall 2023 semester show that KU had the largest enrollment increase of any Regents university in the state.
KU’s enrollment grew 6.7% to 25,469 ...
I’ve noted before that my household likes butter. We are that family who orders a lobster dinner and sells the lobster to buy more melted butter. So, you are darn right that I’m intrigued by a pizza that replaces the marinara with butter sauce.
That’s a hallmark of Indian-style pizza, and Lawrence now has just such a pizza purveyor. The Pizza Palace recently has opened at 125 E. 10th St., which is next ...
The rumor spread swiftly, but it was missing the most important element: the Swift.
A large crowd of people descended upon Free State Brewery in downtown Lawrence on Monday afternoon after social media lit up with comments that mega celebrity Taylor Swift was dining at the local restaurant.
But, it wasn’t so, Free State owner Chuck Magerl told the Journal-World.
“We’ve heard that from everyone but ...
When it comes to understanding Kansas’ “brain drain” — the idea that the state’s most highly-educated residents are leaving for other states — you don’t need much brain power to understand a major reason why it happens.
Wages.
University of Kansas economics professor Donna Ginther has put together a new report on brain drain and a host of other issues involving college graduates and Kansas ...
