When Kwik Shop filed plans in August 2020 for a new store at 25th and Iowa streets, the result was one of Lawrence’s largest convenience stores literally bulldozed one of the city’s smallest — La Estrella Mexican tienda and taco stand.
That Kwik Shop at the northwest corner of 25th and Iowa is now largely complete, but the more interesting part of the story is the tiny La Estrella is far from done.
And ...
A KU design team has been selected for a national solar energy competition, and its entry will be a unique home in Kansas City, Kansas, that provides shelter to victims of domestic abuse.
The University of Kansas’ Dirt Work Studios is one of 14 teams selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.
Dirt Works Studio, which is part of KU’s School of Architecture & Design, ...
Picturing a recent University of Kansas graduate with a set of headphones on isn’t hard to do.
After all, how many dorm rooms or campus benches or corners of the library are populated by students with headphones doing everything from playing an online video game to listening to music?
But after graduation, life’s tunes have been known to change. Now picture that young KU graduate listening to Chinese — ...
It is time for Lawrence’s most famous walk down the hill — complete with a flipping of a tassel, and perhaps even some backflips from those who have been writing the tuition checks.
The University of Kansas’ spring commencement is Sunday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, and if you are planning to attend, there are a few details you may want to know as several thousand people will converge on the ...
A bigger home is a better home. That is a notion that has won the day many times in Lawrence, but it’s not doing much to help the community win its battle for affordable housing, Rebecca Buford, executive director of Tenants to Homeowners, said.
“Some of what has to happen here is a change in mindset,” Buford said.
Indeed, Buford’s Lawrence-based nonprofit has filed plans at City Hall for a new ...
My theory is the Ghost of Failed Predictions haunts the old Borders bookstore building at Seventh and New Hampshire streets. Perhaps not for much longer, though. After more than a decade of being mostly vacant, there’s word of a possible corporate headquarters locating in the downtown space.
Lawrence businessman Doug Compton confirmed that he’s in discussions with the city of Lawrence about a project that ...
