What does a leader in the local music scene do? Nick Carswell has been doing it for more than a decade, and his answer is: Whatever the musicians need him to do.
Carswell, who founded the Lawrence Music Alliance in 2023, has actually been helping musicians since around 2009, when he was living in Ireland. “I discovered artists whose music I was just very excited about,” he told the Journal-World, “and I ...
A publicly traded company that specializes in “smart home” technology is no longer eyeing the former Journal-World printing facility on Massachusetts Street for its new location, and it will be requesting development incentives for a site on Vermont Street instead.
The company is Alarm.com, and it was planning to use part of the former printing plant at 630 Massachusetts St. as a new office for about 70 ...
City leaders took a step forward Tuesday on an incentive package for an affordable housing project that would create 121 units of affordable housing in western Lawrence.
At its regular meeting, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-1, with Vice Mayor Mike Courtney opposed and commissioner Mike Dever absent, to approve a resolution of intent to issue two incentives for the Floret Hill development at the southeast ...
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 ...
