A Missouri-based bank has reached a nearly $4 million deal to become the official bank of the University of Kansas.
Central Bank of the Midwest, which has multiple locations in Lawrence and throughout the Kansas City metro region, will become KU’s “community banking partner” on Aug. 1, KU announced on Tuesday.
The deal — valued at $3.9 million for KU and its affiliates over seven years — will ...
After a week away from the office, let me get back in the swing of things with some news and notes from around town:
— Despite its name, this drive-thru coffee chain is moving a lot faster than your average scooter. The Nebraska-based chain Scooter’s Coffee has filed its third set of plans in as many months for a new Lawrence location.
This time, Scooter’s plans to locate at 23rd Street and Haskell ...
There has been a Whataburger question in Lawrence for a while now: When? The answer, it appears, is soon. Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall for the popular fast-food hamburger chain to build its first restaurant in the city.
Plans call for the restaurant to locate on the current site of Mi Ranchito Mexican restaurant at 707 W. 23rd St.
If you aren’t familiar with Whataburger, you must not be ...
There are five towns in Kansas that added new residents at a rate of at least 1 person per day in 2021. Lawrence wasn’t quite one of them, but it could at least tout itself as a place with a growing population. Most couldn’t, and some of the ones that no longer can might surprise you.
In 2021, when the world started moving about again as the population became vaccinated, the latest population estimates ...
A $12,000 usage fee and a mid-May deadline to reserve Allen Fieldhouse both were factors the Lawrence school district faced when trying to use the KU building for a backup location for graduation ceremonies this week.
Plus, district officials really want to have high school graduations at the actual high schools whenever possible, a district spokeswoman said.
“We know from previous years that our students ...
There is word of a new business coming to downtown Lawrence that likely will get a high level of attention: a “recreational cannabis dispensary.”
No, recreational marijuana use — nor medical marijuana use, for that matter — hasn’t been legalized in Kansas, and this new Massachusetts Street storefront won’t be in the business of selling marijuana.
But, if history is a guide, it may still attract ...
