One of the largest — and oldest — banks in America has plans to open its first Lawrence branch. Chase Bank is seeking City Hall approval to open a bank branch at the northwest corner of 23rd Street and Naismith Drive in a building that formerly was occupied by Truity Credit Union. If ...
News and notes from around town: — There’s seemingly a bit of a debate going on in the grocery store industry. Should the self-checkout lane stay or go? One Lawrence grocery store in recent days has apparently said it must go. Lawrence’s Hy-Vee store at Clinton Parkway and Kasold ...
As the old saying goes, money talks — and when the amount is $4 billion, entire communities will stop what they are doing to listen. Indeed, the 2022 announcement that Panasonic was going to build a $4 billion, 4,000-job battery plant for electric vehicles in nearby De Soto made Lawrence ...
Future development around KU’s football stadium — currently undergoing a partial $450 million renovation to add a conference center and other amenities — has recently become more complicated. Soon, local governments may be asked to ease some of those complications by providing financial ...
It was one thing for Bill Self and his coaching staff to compare Rakease Passmore to Ochai Agbaji during the recruiting process, as Passmore said in June that they had. It was another for Self to reiterate that assessment after having Passmore on campus for three months. “He’s kind of an ...
For much of its more than 165-year history, there’s been a pretty straightforward, statistical rule in Douglas County: Lawrence has the bigger number. After all, for a long time now, Lawrence has had about 80% of Douglas County’s total population. So, unless the number was dealing with ...
