photo by: City of Lawrence

A rendering of the future Municipal Services & Operations department campus. The City Commission will consider Tuesday night a construction agreement of around $8.6 million for Phase One construction of the project, which is expected to be finished in 2026.

Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will consider two more agreements with a construction company for work on the city’s $130 million Municipal Services and Operations campus.

The first phase of construction on the campus, located at VenturePark in eastern Lawrence, has been ongoing since December, and the City Commission has already allocated tens of millions of dollars to construction company McCownGordon for the work. On Tuesday, the commission will be voting on two more agreements with McCownGordon: one for roughly $8.6 million for interior finishes, equipment, appliances, audio and video, fences and gates, landscaping and temporary irrigation; and one for $519,205 for preconstruction services for phase two of the project.

If the commissioners approve the agreements, the city will have allocated more than $55 million in contracts to McCownGordon for the project. The city has also spent around $9.5 million on “soft costs” so far.

The $130 million MSO campus project aims to bring the various divisions of the MSO department, including streets, water, sewer, inspections and traffic, together at the same facility. The funding set aside for the project has been part of the city’s Capital Improvement Plan for years, and, as the Journal-World reported, the commission voted in April 2024 to approve an accelerated timeline for the construction.

The first phase of the project will construct the building housing the majority of the MSO department’s divisions and the fueling station, as the Journal-World reported. The city anticipates that phase one will reach “substantial completion” by spring 2026 and that employees will start to move in that summer.

The second phase of the project will include a solid waste building and central maintenance garage. That project is expected to be completed by 2027.

photo by: Screenshot of City of Lawrence

A photo from May 1 of the Municipal Services and Operations campus in eastern Lawrence. Work on the project began in December 2024.

In other business, commissioners will:

• Consider approving a final development plan for a new drive-thru coffee shop on the southern part of Iowa Street.

As the Journal-World reported, the Arkansas-based chain 7 Brew Coffee filed plans to build a new drive-thru location at the site of a now-defunct mattress store at 3231 Iowa St., which is next door to a McDonald’s and in front of the Target store.

The Iowa Street project will involve a demolition of the existing building, according to plans filed at City Hall. A smaller building will be constructed on the site, leaving room for two drive-thru lanes to snake through the property.

• Consider awarding a construction bid of just under $3.3 million to Freeman Concrete Construction LLC for maintenance on the following streets:

• O’Connell Road from East 23rd Street to East 31st Street

• Emery Road from West Ninth Street to Stratford Road

• West 27th Street from Iowa Street to Lawrence Avenue

• Crestline Drive from West 27th Street to West 30th Street

• West 30th Street from Crestline Drive to Harrison Avenue

The item is under the city’s consent agenda, a list of items generally considered routine that can be considered and voted on all at once.

The Lawrence City Commission will convene at 5 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. A livestream of the meeting can be viewed on the city’s YouTube channel.