Lawrence and Douglas County are getting more serious about cultivating start-up businesses, and if you don’t believe it, there will be 25,000 examples to point to next month. A pair of local organizations are teaming up to host the second annual Douglas County Pitch Competition, where entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas for new ventures to judges who will award $25,000 in prize money to the winners. That ...
Stan Hernly knows the possibilities of old homes. After all, he started his Lawrence architecture practice in an old home along Tennessee Street. It was more than 35 years ago that he founded his architecture practice, Hernly Associates, in that 1907 house, and since then the firm has grown and done all types of projects — ranging from 200 square feet to 200,000 square feet, with price tags between $1,000 ...
Not every street is like Wall Street. There, occupants are never very far from a daily ticker — or metaphors of bulls and bears — measuring prosperity or decline for those in the financial industry. But on Massachusetts Street and elsewhere in Lawrence, high finance isn’t the engine of the economy. Here, higher education is the force that makes the wheels turn. There’s no handy daily ticker to ...
There’s a clear sign that Whataburger is moving forward on opening its first Lawrence location — and it is not in the fast-food chain’s trademark orange. Instead, it is yellow, and plenty big. A big, yellow, trackhoe excavator has been demolishing the former Mi Ranchito restaurant building at 707 W. 23rd St. this week. That indeed is the announced location of a new Whataburger restaurant. Survey crews ...
The Kansas Board of Regents is working on a new policy that will prohibit “diversity pledges” at state universities, but higher education leaders say it won’t require the schools to close their offices related to diversity efforts. A subcommittee of the Board of Regents, which oversees KU and other public universities in the state, gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a policy addition that says “no ...
A plan for KU to create a “Gateway District” around its refurbished football stadium may initially include fewer retailers, restaurants and other amenities than once envisioned, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Wednesday. The reason: As KU’s football stadium at 11th and Mississippi streets has been coming down bit by bit, interest rates — the type charged by lenders — have been going up. The end ...