Now, Kansas football is starting to add up to a big success. No, the Jayhawks aren't going to a bowl game, but rather, there is another sign suggesting that KU’s recently completed football season was a big boost to the Lawrence economy. Lawrence had the best growth in retail sales of any ...
A plan to build a new soccer/sports complex at the U.S. Highway 59 and South Lawrence Trafficway interchange won’t have a preliminary vote at Lawrence City Hall on Tuesday, as once scheduled. But the delay isn’t a sign that the project has encountered approval difficulty, a representative ...
A hunt is on to find 500 acres of Douglas County land suitable for industrial development, and Eudora might end up producing the first trophy. Douglas County economic development leaders on Thursday said they were excited about the possibility of a new 100-acre industrial park forming on the ...
A Wichita-based developer is pursuing more than $1 billion worth of new projects both south and west of Lawrence — with a $50 million soccer/sports complex and 700 acres of residential development topping the list. Phil Bundy, a Wichita entrepreneur who has led a host of retail and ...
It is safety first for this holiday weekend, which means I’m testing the strength of my elastic waistbands. The only thing that gets stretched harder during the season is my wallet, but the testing of the waistband is more fun. (It may or may not have involved me eating three pieces of pie ...
The top two vote-winners in the recent Lawrence City Commission election promised a group of home builders Friday that change indeed is coming to Lawrence. The most visible sign of it, they suggested, will be a lot more growth for the community. “What has been said to me is that we ...