As Lawrence’s parking manager, Brad Harrell is well aware that parking garages have an image problem. “Parking garages are dark and intimidating by nature,” Harrell says in his brightly lit office in the New Hampshire Street garage. They’re associated with crime and graffiti, and you’d not exactly take a photo of one and put it on social media. So, when he sees people doing just that in the New ...
City leaders will vote next week on whether to claw back $558,000 in affordable housing funding from Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center after it stepped away from a supportive housing project. The funding was awarded to Bert Nash from the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund in 2023 and 2024 for a permanent supportive housing project near the intersection of Sixth Street and Rockledge Road. However, the ...
When nine holes at the Jayhawk Club golf course stopped being maintained a few years ago, Scott Robinson said, it was “kind of subtle.” “It was in early 2023,” he said. “You just noticed that the greens and areas weren’t being kept up. It was very subtle.” But he couldn’t help but notice when the changes came to the greens behind his home. “Behind my house, I watched a pond be destroyed and ...
When Lawrence gets a new city manager, it could also get a new look for its City Commission meetings – one with public comments near the beginning instead of at the end. At Tuesday’s City Commission meeting, Mayor Brad Finkeldei said he was interested in changing the order of the meeting agendas to move certain items to earlier in the evening. He said that might include the city manager’s comments and ...
Did you know river otters live in Kansas? Many people don’t, the scouts of Girl Scout Junior Troop 2856 say, and they want to remind passersby in downtown Lawrence with a new mural about endangered species. This mural, and another one planned by the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation, were both enthusiastically received by the city’s Cultural Arts Commission on Wednesday night. The LJCC’s mural would ...
Lawrence will soon start accepting applications for a construction manager for its new fire station, Fire Station 6, which is expected to start construction next year. On Tuesday, the commission voted 5-0 to approve a method called “construction manager at risk” to build Fire Station 6. The method differs from a traditional design-bid-build process in several ways, and Mayor Brad Finkeldei said it would be ...