Story updated at 1:50 p.m. Friday A Kansas City, Mo.-based company wants to bring 80 jobs to Lawrence and build a new manufacturing plant at Lawrence VenturePark. U.S. Engineering Metalworks has filed plans with the city to build a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on an approximately 25-acre site at the business park on the eastern edge of Lawrence. The company would become the first to locate a ...
Uber may come in handy today when you don’t want to carry a pocket of quarters and mess with parking meters in downtown. But years ago, an Ober’s was the handiest of places, especially if you had a fancy turkey pull on your calendar. Before you think I’ve had one too many pulls of something, let me explain why I’m bringing up the name of a long lost Lawrence business. A large Massachusetts Street ...
Comebacks really are possible, which is why I refuse to throw away three-quarters of the clothes in my closet. First, the KU football team pulls off one on Saturday, and now it looks like local businesses are experiencing a bit of a bounce back too. After being down for much of 2019, local sales tax collections are making a comeback in the second half of the year. The City of Lawrence recently received from ...
We are becoming a world of scans. We scan everything from our shopper cards to get a discount to our fingerprints to get into our smartphones. But lots of people are betting that the real scanning revolution will be in health care. Think of the day when we scan our whole body to get advanced warning of cancer or other ailments. A new Lawrence business has opened that aims to tap into that future demand, while ...
The idea of a big shopping center at the Iowa Street and South Lawrence Trafficway interchange isn’t dead after all. If you remember, we reported last month that there was speculation the out-of-state development group that has proposed the shopping center at the southeast corner of the intersection had given up on the idea. That speculation was fueled by the fact the developers unexpectedly dismissed a ...
We should all have Kansas City envy. The state has released its annual report on wages across Kansas, and the numbers are a good reminder that pretty much all of us make less than what we would if were working in the much larger Kansas City economy. But some of us should be more green with envy than others. By the look of the numbers, Lawrence-area schoolteachers could be a good stand-in for Kermit the Frog ...