Everybody knows that the pandemic battered some of our favorite businesses in 2020. Now, we are getting one of our first glimpses at just how many. The answer in downtown Lawrence is: A historically high number.
Downtown Lawrence’s retail vacancy rate at the end of 2020 was 12.5%, according to the annual report from the commercial real estate firm Colliers International, which operates an office in Lawrence. ...
I don’t know what people are doing with so many candles during the pandemic. (They definitely present some challenges. I caught three masks on fire just trying to blow out my birthday cake.) Regardless, business is booming at downtown Lawrence’s Waxman Candles. It is banging and clanking, too.
Waxman Candles at 609 Massachusetts St. has a major building project underway. For a while, it looked like the ...
It is rare that I ever remember the ending of a story that begins with the question "What are we going to do with those 30 bottles of wine on the shelf?" But Troy Clark remembers the end of his story, and it actually is on display as a new winery in downtown Lecompton.
Clark and his wife, Vickie, have opened Empty Nester's Winery in Lecompton, which of course, is in northwest Douglas County and about a ...
There’s tough news on both the local television front and the local sports scene today. Lawrence’s cable company has confirmed that it is closing down its local sports channel that broadcasts everything from high school games to a host of KU sporting events.
After word of the pending closure started spreading this morning, a Midco representative confirmed that MidcoSN Kansas’ last day on the air will be ...
January sure seems like it didn’t get the memo that 2021 was supposed to be a bounce-back year. Lawrence City Hall got its first sales tax check of the new year, and the best you can say about it is at least it didn’t bounce. It wasn’t that bad, but it also wasn’t anything to brag about.
Lawrence posted a 9.1% drop in sales tax collections for the month, compared to the same period a year ago. That is ...
There’s a joke circulating among Lawrence real estate agents these days: Tom Brady has been in more Super Bowls than Lawrence has houses for sale.
“It is not quite that bad yet, but it is close,” said John Huntington Jr., president of the Lawrence Board of Realtors.
Hopefully the next punchline isn’t that you need Brady’s wallet to buy a house in Lawrence.
Lawrence’s real estate market finished ...
