Lawrence city leaders at their meeting Tuesday gave their consent to the sale of Hamm Landfill to a nationwide waste disposal company. The commission voted 4-0, with Commissioner Mike Dever absent, to authorize City Manager Craig Owens to sign letters of consent to the sale of Hamm Landfill and Hamm Material Recovery Facility, which processes recycling, to Allied Waste Systems. The reason the city had to ...
No matter who wins USA Today’s contest for best brewpub this year, Free State Brewing Company founder Chuck Magerl thinks there’s a title they all deserve: “third place.” Not the kind of “third place” his brewery won in the contest last year, though. The “third place” that sociologists speak of – a place people gather “that’s different from work or different from home.” “As far as ...
City leaders next week will be considering a tax incentive package for a proposed 121-unit affordable housing complex on the west side of Lawrence. The housing project is Floret Hill at the southeast corner of Bob Billings Parkway and Kansas Highway 10, and it's being developed by Wheatland Investments Group and Tenants to Homeowners. Its plans call for a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units that will be ...
Hamm Companies, which for decades has run the landfill that serves Lawrence, plans to sell that landfill to a large nationwide waste disposal company, and the City of Lawrence is being asked to consent to the sale. In a letter Hamm sent to the city and county, dated Dec. 10, Hamm said it would be selling the Hamm Landfill and Hamm Material Recovery Facility, which processes recycling, to a company called Allied ...
As part of a City of Lawrence study about housing affordability and “COVID’s impact on the housing market,” you can now take an online survey that asks plenty of questions about your housing – but no questions about COVID. If you're wondering why that is, city officials and consultants say there's a good reason for the study to have a COVID angle, and it's not just that it's funded with a federal grant ...
Costco isn't the only grocery store eyeing the far west end of Sixth Street — there are now signs that Aldi is considering a site just a couple thousand feet away. On Wednesday, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of a rezoning request for just over four acres on the northeast corner of Sixth Street and George Williams Way. City staff's report on the request ...