Lawrence-based CEK Insurance has had a hectic month, completing a pair of deals to buy a competing agency and to purchase a downtown Lawrence building that will become the new headquarters for the firm.
The firm has some history with tough tasks, though. The company was founded in 1931, ...
There are early-stage plans to build a 95-room upscale hotel at 11th and Massachusetts streets to complement the soon-to-open 1,000-person convention center at the University of Kansas’ football stadium.
Lawrence businessman Tony Krsnich — the developer of the Warehouse Arts District in ...
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When it comes to the age-old question of ‘what’s in a name,” sometimes the answer is confusing directions that cause you to get in a shouting match with your GPS. That’s been the case with the 12th and Haskell Recycling Center in eastern Lawrence for ...
Lawrence City Hall budget-makers will take any good news they can these days. The city has about a $6.6 million budget hole to fill for its 2026 budget, and it already has implemented buyout plans for 20 employees, with more perhaps to come.
As the budget process gets ready to swing into high ...
If you are still finding your way around the world of golf (don’t go more than chest-deep into the pond, lest it impact your backswing,) you may not know that there are a couple of different types of driving ranges.
There’s the traditional driving range where you put a ball on a tee, hit ...
Lawrence is in the business of giving young people a start — the biggest event of the year, after all, is named “commencement.”
Starter homes, though, not so much.
In fact, it is difficult to find a city that is worse at it, a new report suggests. The trade journal Construction ...