City leaders have approved an incentive package for a manufacturing plant that wants to bring 80 jobs to Lawrence. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-0 to approve Kansas City, Mo.-based U.S. Engineering Metalworks' request for a property tax abatement, a sales tax exemption and free land for the project. Vice Mayor Jennifer Ananda was absent. U.S. Engineering Metalworks plans ...
Having grown up in Lawrence, Ken Easthouse said he did not shy away from a healthy debate when it came to local issues. “We have a spirit in Lawrence that loves to debate, and everyone has their own pet issue that they love to talk about, and that’s one of the things that makes Lawrence great,” Easthouse said. “And we need people who understand that spirit in our leadership, because we have to have that ...
For Lawrence’s homeless with nowhere to go at night, their new beds consist of a park gazebo, the dry concrete next to a building or a patch of ground along the Kansas River. Others opt not to sleep at all. “Some walk the streets to stay awake, for safety, because they don’t want to lie down to go to sleep,” said Loring Henderson, director of a downtown drop-in center for the homeless at 10th and ...
For Stuart Boley, some of the best conversations about local politics happen not behind the microphone at City Hall, but over a cup of coffee. Boley, the lone incumbent candidate in the upcoming City Commission election, said that he goes to a monthly coffee meetup, hosted by Community Village Lawrence, and also has one-on-one conversations with residents — both scheduled and impromptu — at local coffee ...
City leaders will soon decide whether to provide tax breaks to a manufacturing plant that wants to bring 80 jobs to Lawrence. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider an incentive package application from the Kansas City, Mo.-based company U.S. Engineering Metalworks. The company has filed plans with the city to build a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on an ...
At a forum Wednesday, Lawrence City Commission candidates discussed several issues affecting the city, including proposed growth policies, economic incentives and what the city should do with excess savings in the future. The Lawrence chamber of commerce hosted the forum at Maceli's Banquet Hall, and Chamber Vice President Hugh Carter moderated. He asked the six candidates several questions, and each candidate ...