As a step toward its expansion plans, longtime Lawrence garage door manufacturer Amarr wants to own its current facility instead of leasing it, and the city could give it an assist next week with Industrial Revenue Bonds.
Amarr is asking the city to issue up to $35 million of the bonds to help it purchase the 440,000-square-foot facility at 3800 Greenway Circle that it now leases, which it says is necessary if ...
A settlement has been reached in the Riverfront building owners' lawsuit against the city of Lawrence and its contractors, one in which the defendants would pay a total of $2.5 million, the city would take control of the building and the SpringHill Suites hotel would stop operating there.
Currently, a Lawrence-based entity called Riverfront LLC co-owns the former Riverfront Mall building with the other ...
City commissioners could soon be hearing public comments at the start of their meeting once a month, and they could also adopt a civility resolution that contains “standards of conduct” for the commission itself.
At its meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider adopting a new meeting order that, among other things, moves the general public comment period on the second Tuesday of each ...
When police stopped Rodney Marshall on Kansas Highway 10 after a chase that reached 100 mph, prosecutor Eve Kemple said Thursday, “he immediately began spontaneously talking.”
He talked about having killed two men, Kemple said: Shelby McCoy and William D. O’Brien. He talked about his belief that they were “diaper-dippers, or child molesters,” she said, and told investigators where to find a list of ...
For years now, residents of University Place have been afraid of losing their neighborhood’s history. And earlier this year, Pam Burkhead said, that fear became more real than ever.
The neighborhood to the southeast of the University of Kansas campus was worried that Lawrence’s new land development code would let potentially historic homes be torn down and dense new developments be built in their place. So ...
As Lawrence city leaders work out how to pay for the fire department’s planned expansion, local law enforcement officers have a request for them: Don’t cut police to fund it.
“Public safety is not one-sided, and it should not be funded that way,” Lt. Amy Rhoads of the Lawrence Police Department told the City Commission during its conversation on the 2027 budget on Tuesday night. She was one of a dozen ...
