WRITER: Chad Lawhorn

Longtime Lawrence restaurant owner weighs options as convenience store plan looms over shopping center

The future of Lawrence’s longtime Italian restaurant Paisano’s is a bit like my last spaghetti dinner. It is going to take a little time to untangle. Questions about what will happen to Paisano’s Ristorante, 2112 W. 25th Street, have emerged ever since we reported last week that the parent company of Kwik Shop had filed a plan to demolish the shopping center that houses the restaurant and about a dozen ...

LMH, local doctors group still working on deal that will determine future operations of emergency department

Negotiations that would keep a Lawrence-based company running the day-to-day operations of LMH Health’s emergency department continue but still have some thorny issues to resolve. One of them involves how large of a bill patients to the hospital’s emergency department may ultimately receive. The hospital’s board of trustees on Wednesday received an update on negotiations between LMH Health and Lawrence ...

Lawrence housing market saw 18% jump in prices in July; look at 2020's top building projects

Hot, fast, and increasingly expensive is a pretty accurate summary of Lawrence’s housing market in July. Home sales were up by nearly 13% in July, while the median selling price was up by 18% compared to the same month a year ago. Historically low mortgage rates certainly are playing a part in the rising number of home sales. Rising prices, however, are being greatly influenced by a trend that Realtors ...

Plans filed for new live-work project on far east side of Lawrence; manufacturing project moving ahead

Maybe the dining room table works well for your work-at-home arrangement, but my words per minute on the keyboard have declined by at least half because of the fork in my hand. A new project proposed for the far east side of Lawrence is betting that people soon will be looking for more formal work-at-home options. Plans have been filed at City Hall that would allow four new mixed-use buildings to be ...

Dick's Sporting Goods temporarily closes Lawrence store for 'deep cleaning'

Dick’s Sporting Goods has temporarily closed its store in Lawrence, but there are no signs that it has made a decision to leave the Lawrence market. Rather, signs on the front door of the big box retailer at 27th and Iowa streets state the building is closed for “deep cleaning.” The signs don’t say whether the store was a site of a COVID-19 outbreak, and the Douglas County Health Department does not ...

Kwik Shop files plans for big, new store, but development would dislocate several businesses

Kwik Shop is the latest convenience store chain to decide to expand its Lawrence presence, but its plan is poised to dislocate several longtime businesses on south Iowa Street in the process. The parent company for Kwik Shop — EG America — has filed plans at City Hall to build a Kwik Shop convenience store and fueling station, along with a separate car wash, at the northwest corner of 25th and Iowa ...