Photos: Hundreds turn out to comment on Hub on Campus project at Lawrence City Commission meeting

photo by: Kim Callahan

People wait in line outside of City Hall to comment at the Lawrence City Commission meeting on Tuesday, May 7, 2019.

Hundreds of people showed up to comment at Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, where commissioners were set to discuss Hub on Campus, a controversial apartment and retail project proposed for downtown Lawrence.

photo by: Kim Callahan

A crowd fills City Hall at the Lawrence City Commission meeting on Tuesday, May 7, 2019.

photo by: Kim Callahan

Melissa Warren, right, waits outside of City Hall on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, with another opponent of the Hub on Campus apartment and retail project proposed for 11th and Massachusetts Streets. Warren, who used to work at the Douglas County Courthouse and volunteers at the Watkins Museum, said that the apartment complex was too big to share an intersection with those historic structures and that she didn’t trust the project’s developers.

photo by: Kim Callahan

Connie Fitzpatrick and her son Andrés attend the Lawrence City Commission meeting on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at City Hall to express opposition to the Hub on Campus project.

photo by: Kim Callahan

Theresa Martin knits while she waits to voice her opposition to the Hub on Campus project on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at City Hall. The longtime Lawrence resident said the Hub was a bad idea because it ”doesn’t fit” with the historic nature of the site. With her is Byron Wiley, Lawrence, who also opposed the project because he says it’s incongruous with the location and would worsen parking downtown.

photo by: Kim Callahan

Local stone mason Keith Middlemas dons a hat with a “No Hub” sticker as he waits for the Lawrence City Commission to take up the discussion of the Hub project on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Middlemas has done extensive stone work on the Douglas County Courthouse, which is one of the historic buildings at the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets, where the Hub would be located.

photo by: Kim Callahan

A crowd forms outside Lawrence’s City Hall Tuesday, May 7, 2019, as the City Commission prepares to discuss the controversial Hub project that is proposed for the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets.

photo by: Kim Callahan

People wait in line to comment on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, as the Lawrence City Commission prepares to consider a controversial apartment project for the downtown corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets.

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