Miller Mart owner Sang Lee knows his regulars by name. He grabs what they want, like a specific brand of cigarettes, without them needing to ask for it.
“I’m at the point where I can count individual transactions on the computer and know which customer it was that made this one transaction by looking at it,” he says. “Every regular, they have a specific thing that they buy.”
He talks to one woman ...
New apartment buildings in North Lawrence, row houses near Holcom Park and a redevelopment of an old school building are a few of the projects that have applied for money from the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund for 2027.
The application period closed earlier this month, and at the Affordable Housing Advisory Board's meeting in October, the applicants will be able to make their pitches.
Each fall, AHAB ...
It’s St. John’s Oktoberfest weekend, and just like each of the past 20 or so years, that means Susan Lechtenberg-Fingerhut has her breakfast plans covered.
“We start at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning of the event frying all of the schnitzel,” said Lechtenberg-Fingerhut after some food prep work in the church basement earlier this week. “So, every year for breakfast, I get schnitzel. Which is ...
A new sign of progress appeared this month for an affordable apartment project in East Lawrence that escaped having some of its city funding clawed back earlier this year.
The project is 9 Del Lofts II, a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit project that longtime developer Tony Krsnich is planning to build at 716 E. Ninth St. Earlier this month, a site plan for it was filed at City Hall, meaning the development is ...
One of the largest KC-area car dealers has just purchased an auto dealership with a half-century history in Lawrence.
That longtime Lawrence dealership is Dale Willey Chevrolet and GMC at 2840 Iowa St., and the dealer it sold to is Cable Dahmer, which now owns 10 dealerships in and around the Kansas City metro area. You might recall that in 2025, Cable Dahmer bought the Lawrence Kia dealership at 1225 E. 23rd ...
More layers of approvals, including multiple public hearings, would be required for data center developments in Lawrence under a proposed change to the city's land use code that the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission recommended on Monday.
The Planning Commission voted 6-1, with Commissioner Gary Rexroad opposed, to recommend a text amendment to the code that would require any future data center ...
