The name, of course, is Panasonic, but there are days it feels more like Panasecret for those who are trying to predict the regional impact of the company’s 4,000-job battery plant in De Soto.
But some key details are starting to emerge on the $4 billion project, and for communities like Lawrence and Eudora, none may be more important than the estimated number of plant employees who are expected to move to ...
News and notes from around town, with a special emphasis on Lawrence’s housing scene:
— It might be fun to live on a street named Research Park Drive. (Upon hearing my address, people would exclaim that they hope it’s cranial research they are conducting.) Regardless, that old business park address may indeed become a new single-family neighborhood.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall to ...
Some people on the coasts say Kansas is flyover country. Perhaps, but if dogs ran the world, I think there is a chance that we might be the Florida of the canine universe. If that were so, Tonganoxie might be making its play to be Orlando.
Eastern Kansas has a lot of pet food plants, and now nearby Tonganoxie is poised to become a bigger player in the industry. The city of about 5,500 people northeast of ...
News and notes from up and down Sixth Street:
— More than 30 years of Lawrence restaurant tradition hangs in the balance. The longtime westside restaurant and bar Henry’s T’s announced on Monday that it has closed its lone Lawrence location near Sixth and Kasold.
But the restaurant hopes to find a new location in Lawrence to reopen the establishment that was known for its wings, burgers and beer. ...
For more than three years, a group of customers of the Lawrence Kia dealership have been arguing that they were victims of a loan scheme that involved false information being submitted to lenders.
In the legal proceedings that followed, evidence even emerged that one of the dealership’s owners had the nickname of “Picasso” because fellow employees believed he forged the signatures of so many customers. ...
Here are some news and notes from around town:
— A Kansas City-based auto dealer is on the way out, while one with both Kansas City and Lawrence connections is set to replace it.
McCarthy Nissan of Lawrence is in the process of exiting the Lawrence market, while Dream Nissan — which has a dealership in the area near the Legends shopping district of Kansas City, Kansas — is set to take its place. ...
