News and notes from around town: It is not quite yet Whataburger, but it is Whatasmell. Residents who have been going to the Douglas County Elections Office near 23rd and Louisiana streets for advance voting have been picking up an unmistakable scent from the office’s neighbor — the ...
Popular Kansas City barbecue restaurant Q39 is still on track to open in downtown Lawrence, a representative of the project has told me. A bigger project that would develop next door in the former printing plant of the Journal-World, however, is now less certain to happen. First, let’s ...
Some news and notes from around town: — For the second week in a row, there’s news of a merger in the credit union industry. This time, credit unions from Kansas and Colorado are seeking to join forces. Meritrust Credit Union, which has a branch in west Lawrence, has proposed to merge ...
They’re neighbors, but relations aren’t too neighborly at the moment. The reasons for that are varied but include the fact that one of them may leave the neighborhood. I’m talking about Lawrence City Hall and the former Riverfront Mall property, which is just to the east of City Hall ...
It is that time of year again where the state’s top housing economists get out the crystal ball to predict what Lawrence’s housing market will be in the coming year. The crystal ball has a succinct prediction for the Lawrence market: It will be slower than most. Single-family home sales ...
Here in Lawrence and Douglas County, we’ve been waiting on the impact from Panasonic’s new $4 billion, 4,000-job electric vehicle battery plant that is under construction in nearby De Soto. Parts of Lawrence are just a 20-minute drive from the massive plant, and most of Eudora is less ...