City leaders are hoping Lawrence will be chosen for a pilot project that uses a little-utilized state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing. The project is by the nonprofit organization Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City, which put out a request for ...
Two buildings in the Oread neighborhood that city staff says have historic value could be a problem for the first “very-high-density” housing project in Lawrence's history. The project is Lawrence businessman Doug Compton's two-building, 300-bedroom apartment complex called The Place @ KU. ...
“It’s not good for printing,” this photo that Gary Mark Smith took of a few boys on the streets of Tangier, Morocco. It’s not violent or dark or frightening, like so much of the stuff he’s seen in nearly half a century of photographing the most dangerous streets on Earth. But it’s ...
After the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center stepped away from a permanent supportive housing project, an advisory board is recommending the city claw back more than half a million in affordable housing funds — a first for the city. As the Journal-World reported, Bert Nash said last ...
Electricity and gas companies have a special rule that governs when they can shut off services in the winter months, but you might not have known the City of Lawrence’s water service limits its cold-weather shutoffs, as well. The city’s current practice is to not shut off customers’ ...
Lawrence city commissioners all agree that they want a new fire station in northwest Lawrence – but they don’t yet agree on a proposed property tax increase to fund the expansion. On Tuesday, the City Commission had its first chance to discuss city staff’s 2027 budget proposal, which ...