Buying a home in Lawrence didn’t become any easier or cheaper in 2019, as the latest report shows home prices now have increased 26% since the middle of the decade. The number of homes sold in Lawrence last year dropped by about 2% compared to 2018 levels, while the median selling prices of homes increased by more than 4%, according to the year-end report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. The slowdown ...
News and notes from around the downtown area: • I’ve got a garage full of vehicles from Detroit, and soon it seems that I could have a belly full of pizza that is inspired by the city too. Look for a new “Detroit-style” pizza restaurant to open on Ninth Street. Longtime Lawrence restaurant owner Brad Ziegler has confirmed that he’s opening the Big Mill in the spot at Ninth and Mississippi streets ...
This Town Talk column appeared in the Jan. 22, 2020, edition of the Journal-World's Crave food supplement. More from that section, including interviews with Lawrence restaurateurs, can be found here. I’m definitely not a restaurant critic, and I’ve found it is dangerous to be a food critic. (The things that can be done with a turkey baster when you tell the chef the bird is a bit dry ...) But writing ...
For 50 years, there has been a Border Bandido on the loose in Lawrence. I can attest because it has stolen at least three notches on my belt that I’ll never get back. Of course, I’m talking about the Mexican restaurant on 23rd Street. Soon, though, it will be just a memory. The restaurant’s owner has announced it will close this summer. Owner Mark Arndt has worked at the restaurant for the last 43 years ...
People are still trying to figure out what to call this decade that just ended. It wasn’t exactly the teens, it wasn’t exactly roaring and, if you take a couple of Twitter accounts out of the equation, it wasn’t exactly dirty. While not catchy, new numbers show there certainly is one title Lawrence could adopt for the time period: The Decade of the Apartment. Your eyes did not deceive you. A lot of ...
Evergy, Kansas’ largest electric utility, has hired a financial adviser to study the company’s future after a major investment group heavily criticized the utility and said it should be sold or reorganized. Elliott Management Corporation, a New York-based investment group that owns about 11 million shares of Evergy, released a letter Tuesday calling for Evergy to either be merged with a more competent ...