From wine to beer to mushrooms, brewery shop is expanding downtown to meet growing demand

My brewing skills figuratively need to get to a new level. (I know a stout is a heavy beer, but I’m concerned mine sets off metal detectors.) A Lawrence brewing supply store, however, is literally moving to a new level. After quietly opening on a second-floor space earlier this year, the Lawrence Brew Supply Shop is expanding by moving to a ground-level Massachusetts Street storefront. Lawrence Brew Supply ...

Downtown-based construction firm buys eastern Lawrence property for future company headquarters

A locally based construction company is looking to eastern Lawrence for its new corporate headquarters, and it hopes to put a unique industrial building on the state’s historic register in the process. An entity affiliated with Mar Lan Construction has purchased the old Zimmerman Steel building along East 19th Street, just west of Haskell Avenue. Kevin Markley, a principal with Mar Lan Construction, told me ...

Personal shopping business opens in Lawrence to provide home delivery from stores locally and in KC area

As evidenced by the strain on my elastic waistband, it is easy to get groceries or a restaurant meal delivered to your home during this pandemic. But, eventually, the waistband breaks and you wish someone would deliver you a belt — or, at least, window shades. Now, a new Lawrence company is open for that wide-ranging type of delivery. Carried Out got its start in Albuquerque, N.M., earlier this year but ...

Photos: Elementary students get goodies at drive-thru event as school set to begin next week

Project underway to create new hub for smaller offices in downtown Lawrence

Chicken-or-egg questions have never been that difficult for me. The answer seems obvious: Both, fried, please. But downtown does have a slightly more difficult which-comes-first type of question. Does downtown need more residential development in order to get more office development, or does it need more office development to get more residential development? “Will they live down here if they don’t have ...

Downtown BBQ restaurant featuring carryout and a 'Porky Parfait' set to open

Obviously, a perfect place to locate a carryout barbecue restaurant would be next to a U-Haul store. (There is only so much brisket you can fit in a trunk.) But a local businessman is betting that downtown Lawrence will be a great place too. A barbecue joint with the very utilitarian name Wed-Sat BBQ is set to open at 733 New Hampshire St. in the next one to two weeks, owner Kevin Augustus told me. Augustus ...