Look for about 100,000 square feet of mini self-storage units to be built on vacant property north of Rock Chalk Park in the not-too-distant future. That project, though, raises an interesting question: Will there ever be any homes built north of Rock Chalk Park?
The area north of the Rock Chalk Park sports complex, at Sixth Street and Kansas Highway 10, is one of the more interesting ones in Lawrence. The ...
Any bakery that is named “Everyday” gets off on the right foot with me because that is exactly how I like my sweets and carbs. West Lawrence indeed is getting such a bakery, although you may need to brush up on your French to know it.
The bakery Tous les Jours — French for “everyday” — is in the process of opening in a portion of the former Blue Moose Bar & Grill at 525 Wakarusa Drive, which is ...
Some people worry about the day robots take over the world. Not me. I’m ready for a robot to do all my parallel parking, for instance. There was a brief time period in Lawrence where it looked like something along those lines might happen.
Perhaps you remember the futuristic parking plans that were part of the original design of the HERE apartment and retail building that was built across the street from ...
Rob Richardson knows a thing or two about speed, given that a good part of his professional career has involved overseeing new development around the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas.
Richardson, who for 17 years was the director of planning for Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte County, has been hired by local economic development leaders to fill the new position of “Panasonic Opportunities ...
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Many of downtown’s most prominent business owners are formally asking the city and county to consider taking over operations of Lawrence’s nonprofit homeless shelter to address what they call a “shelter and housing emergency” in the community.
“We are seeing the numbers in the transient population really increase, and as a community, we haven’t mobilized enough,” ...
A physicist and interim dean at the University of New Mexico is vying to become the leader of KU’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the university's biggest academic unit.
Arash Mafi will be the second of four candidates to conduct a public presentation on the University of Kansas campus to become the new executive dean of KU's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Mafi is scheduled to give a ...
