It has been almost 13 years since downtown Lawrence has had a true drug store, but it looks like that wait soon will be over. The owner of Lawrence-based Sigler Pharmacy has confirmed to me that he’s completed a deal to purchase the former Capitol Federal branch bank building at 11th and Vermont streets to convert into a full-service pharmacy. “It is almost perfect,” said Jeff Sigler, owner of Sigler ...
No, south Iowa Street won’t soon have a mall, but it soon will have mall pizza. Sbarro — the New York-style pizza chain that is found in many a mall food court — is coming to 25th and Iowa streets next month. For good measure, a Burger King also is going in next door to Sbarro. Both will be inside the biggest, newest convenience store in Lawrence. As we reported all the way back in August of 2020, the ...
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — Here in the Arkansas Ozarks, a billionaire is never very far away. It is remarkable for one corner in an otherwise rural state to have not one, but rather a multitude of homegrown billionaires — courtesy of the Waltons of Walmart fame, the Hunts of J.B. Hunt Transport and the Tysons of their namesake poultry and protein empire. But perhaps more remarkable is what the region doesn’t ...
Fayetteville, Ark. — As about 130 leaders from Lawrence and Topeka embarked on a trip to Northwest Arkansas this week, a common goal was to find a couple of million-dollar ideas to bring back to their communities. In some ways, though, that is the equivalent of dime-store shopping here in the Arkansas Ozarks. After all, a million-dollar idea is only so impressive in a land that is dominated by billionaires. ...
We are off to the Land of Walmart to learn. I’ll be honest. That phrase causes worry in my household because the lesson usually involves the upper boundaries of our credit limit. But this isn’t a household trip. It is a community trip, and we aren’t going to an actual Walmart. We are going to Bentonville and Northwest Arkansas, where Walmart was founded and its corporate headquarters remain. About 130 ...
When it comes to prices and retail sales, the start of 2022 has been anything but ordinary — unless you consider using a Brinks truck to transport your groceries home ordinary. With that said, Lawrence’s sales tax collections for the first four months of the year don’t look normal, but they also don’t look out of line with what’s going on elsewhere in the state. After receiving its April sales tax ...