Development around Eudora has been a hot topic in the past few years, and this past week, the Eudora Commission helped pave the way to a future mixed-use development just north of Kansas Highway 10. On Monday, the Eudora Commission approved a sale agreement with Borchardt Development for the remaining six lots of the Nottingham Center, which previously housed the closed Nottingham school building and ...
Since the 1980s, Lawrence residents have been able to celebrate the holidays and support local farmers with the Holiday Farmers Market, and this year’s tradition will be the biggest yet. This year’s edition, which comes Saturday, Dec. 13, includes over 50 vendors, which Emily Lysen, the Lawrence Farmers Market’s director of development, said is one of the biggest holiday farmers markets ever. The event ...
Sidewalks around a key corridor near downtown Lawrence are getting an upgrade thanks to a federal grant. Crews have been replacing sidewalks along multiple portions of Tennessee Street and implementing ADA-compliant sidewalks and curb ramps thanks to a Community Development Block Grant, a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Michael Leos, a spokesperson for the city’s ...
Lawrence City Commissioners approved Tuesday night a request to rezone an area right near the University of Kansas campus to a “very high density” area — marking a potential first for the city. Commissioners unanimously voted to approve a rezoning request for approximately 1.34 acres of land located at 1430 and 1432 Louisiana St. and 1423 and 1433 Ohio St. from an R-4 high density residential district to ...
The Lawrence City Commission voted Tuesday night to uphold a decision that would deny a preliminary development plan for an apartment complex that would have featured 200 units along a portion of the golf course at the Jayhawk Club. Commissioners voted 4-1 to uphold a recommendation from the Planning Commission to not approve a preliminary development plan for a proposed project that would convert a vacant ...
City Commissioners approved an updated agreement that will tweak the work for key stormwater projects near downtown Lawrence and opted to not make changes to the project timeline ahead of the World Cup. The commission voted unanimously to execute a change order of around $4.8 million to Kissick Construction Co. Inc. for the work on the Jayhawk Watershed Middle Reach Project — a project to replace storm ...