A Lawrence landmark is now on a firmer financial foundation than it has been in years. You may remember that in March we reported the United Way of Douglas County had reached a deal to move its offices into a portion of the historic Castle Tea Room building near 13th and Massachusetts streets. Well, the nonprofit now will have company. A deal has been struck for a growing, Lawrence-based mental health ...
LMH Health is continuing to make progress in extending a contract with the local company that has been managing the hospital’s emergency department for more than 25 years. A committee of medical professionals at the hospital was told at a special meeting Wednesday evening that contract negotiations with Lawrence Emergency Medicine Associates were going well. The contract had become a point of controversy ...
A Johnson County nonprofit is expanding its program to test asymptomatic people for the COVID-19 virus in Lawrence next week. Lenexa-based Heart to Heart International will operate free testing sites for basically anyone in the community, Mark Gleeson, a Lawrence resident who works for the nonprofit told me. It basically is the first real opportunity for large numbers of Douglas County residents to get a ...
A community just on the other side of the Douglas County line has landed a $100 million high-tech industrial project. Merck Animal Health announced Monday morning that it is has approved a $100 million expansion plan for its facility along Kansas Highway 10 in De Soto. The press release didn’t provide details on how many new jobs the expansion may provide for the area, but I’ll do some checking on that ...
News and notes from around town: — A development group looking to build a downtown grocery store has won a key lawsuit, but it has lost the grocery store project anyway. The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday announced it has ruled in favor of Treanor Investments, a local development group that has wanted to build a grocery store and apartment project on the old Borders bookstore property at Seventh and New ...
The hit to retail businesses from the pandemic is showing up in new sales tax numbers, and they indicate Lawrence has suffered one of the starkest slowdowns of any major city in the state. Lawrence’s sales tax collections dropped 13.2% in the June sales tax report issued by the state today. The June report, due to normal delays in sales tax reporting, mainly represents sales that were made in April, which ...