City leaders expressed support for a new layout for downtown that limits parking in an effort to give businesses more space to safely operate during the coronavirus pandemic, but wanted the city to remain open to other alternatives. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission got its first look at the temporary layout proposed for downtown Lawrence that decreases the space allocated for ...
Story updated at 5:40 p.m. Monday City leaders will soon consider providing close to $450,000 of federal coronavirus relief funds to the local homeless shelter, enabling the construction of an isolation ward and other building improvements to help the shelter respond to the pandemic. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider providing a $446,184 grant — allocated to the city ...
If downtown businesses are going to safely operate during the coronavirus pandemic, cars are going to have to give people more room. At least that’s the premise of a temporary layout proposed for downtown Lawrence, which downtown leaders and city officials hope to see put in place soon. Downtown Lawrence Inc., the architecture and design firm Gould Evans and other local partners helped create the proposal, ...
Work is set to get underway soon on $4.8 million worth of summer road projects in Lawrence, including some that will affect areas near downtown and the University of Kansas campus. The first projects in the city's annual street maintenance program, which includes curb and gutter maintenance and milling, patching and overlay of various streets around the city, will begin Monday. Other projects will start later ...
The long-running East Ninth Street projects had been planning the unveiling of its 19 community art projects for Lawrence’s May Final Friday art walk event, but the coronavirus has delayed those plans. The artistic installations and performances that comprise the Rebuilding East Ninth Together project are community-based, with many calling for public participation and gatherings. Project Facilitator Mandy ...
The Lawrence City Band concerts that usually take place every summer in South Park have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The city band has played its weekly summer concert series since the early days of the city, and band leaders said it was a hard decision to cancel the concerts. Marion Roberts, chairman of the band’s board of directors and associate conductor, said the health of the band ...