UPDATED 2:30 P.M. AUG. 19
A company that already employs about 150 high-paid pipefitters and sheetmetal workers at Lawrence VenturePark is beginning the process to build a second production center in the eastern Lawrence business park.
US Engineering has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall requesting financial incentives to build a new 75,000-square-foot-facility on a pair of prime lots along 23rd Street, ...
Perhaps one of the few entities getting revamped more than KU’s football stadium is the NCAA itself. University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod now has a front row seat for both projects.
Girod has been appointed to both the overall Board of Governors and to the Division I Board of Directors for the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
With the appointments — which last through August 2029 — ...
There has long been a multimillion-dollar chicken or the egg question at the University of Kansas and its football program.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod got immersed in it even before his first day on the job. A couple of weeks before Girod’s July 2017 start date, the athletic director at the time announced that plans for a $300 million football stadium renovation would soon be released. A $50 million gift ...
News and notes from around town:
— The day is likely coming that you could travel from the east side of town to the west side of town and have a piece of Casey’s pizza the whole way.
And, of course, this in no way involves eating more slowly.
Rather, there are signs that a full-fledged Casey’s is coming to the eastern side of Lawrence, one of the few locations in town that doesn’t yet have the ...
If pigs could fly ... they still might not be as indispensable as the one inside the bathroom of Footprints, the longtime Lawrence shoe store on south Massachusetts Street.
That pig — a tile version on the bathroom wall — has a toilet paper dispenser hanging out of its rear end.
Soon, it may have an award hanging around too.
The bathroom at Footprints, 1339 Massachusetts St., is one of nine finalists ...
UPDATED 9:25 P.M. AUG. 11
They say football is a game of inches. So too, is an approximately $750 million redevelopment of KU’s football stadium, as evidenced by the thickness of the legal documents governing the project.
There’s a big — 262 pages — and important document up for approval Tuesday night. It is the development agreement between the University of Kansas and the City of Lawrence. As we ...
