For the first time in more than 115 years, Lawrence doesn’t have a dry cleaning store in its downtown.
The Lawrence-based dry cleaning firm Scotch Fabric Care Services closed its lone downtown Lawrence location a couple of weeks ago to make way for an expansion of the Maceli’s Banquet Hall that is next door to the Scotch facility at 1029 New Hampshire St.
Scott Shmalberg, president of Scotch Fabric Care ...
If state legislators thought a relatively new law requiring local governments to jump through extra hoops in order to raise property taxes was going to deter such tax hikes, they largely have been wrong.
More precisely, in Douglas County this year, they are 85% wrong.
County officials recently have compiled the annual list of proposed tax rates for every city, township, school board, fire district and other ...
The incoming freshman class of the University of Kansas is projected to be so large that KU is leasing space in three off-campus apartment complexes to house an overflow number of first-year students.
In fact, some KU leaders think the incoming freshman class will be the largest in the school’s history. KU leaders are limited by Kansas Board of Regents reporting rules on what they can definitively say about ...
I’m not sure what I thought would outrank a Dollar General — maybe a Dollar Emperor or Darth Dollar, perhaps — but I could have guessed all day and not come up with the answer of Popshelf. But it sure appears that young retail chain aims to be an upscale version of Dollar General.
It also appears that Lawrence will be getting one on south Iowa Street.
As I briefly reported earlier this week, there are ...
The discount clothing retailer Burlington indeed is coming to Lawrence and will locate in the former Bed Bath & Beyond location on south Iowa Street.
The company has listed on its website Nov. 10 as an opening date for the new store. The company didn’t release the location as part of its announcement, but a construction worker at the former Bed Bath & Beyond site, which is in the Pine Ridge Plaza at ...
In what leaders say is the University of Kansas’ most important project in a generation, the latest score is 125 million to 10.
KU has raised $125 million for its renovation of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in the last 10 months, and university leaders said on Tuesday they fully expect to hold a ribbon cutting for the “transformational” project in 2025.
At a kickoff event that attracted several ...
