A planned $55 million National Security Innovation Center on KU’s West Campus has signed its first tenant, and it indeed will be keeping an eye on airborne threats. Think wind, snow, rain and hail. The National Weather Service has signed an agreement to locate a regional forecasting ...
Lawrence’s city limits may expand to the northwest to allow for a large new housing development. Plans have been filed at City Hall to convert a gravel road on the outskirts of town into a new city street that would lead to nearly 200 new homes. The plans are for the area just north of ...
The KU spinoff company Icorium Engineering is all about being cold. But the enterprise that focuses on new technology for the refrigeration industry can now claim to be one of Lawrence’s hottest start-up companies. Icorium earlier this month received a $1.2 million National Science ...
Lawrence is assured of having its second consecutive year of increasing home sales, and this year may come with the bonus of moderating home prices as well. But whether the Lawrence real estate market enters 2026 with good tidings is still an open question, as November’s totals marked the ...
The “top of the Hill” used to be a place to buy your books. Soon, it will be a place to build your business. (In between, it was a place to bulge your belt, if you recall the days when it was a bakery.) We’ve reported a few times over the last few months that the University of Kansas ...
One of Kansas City’s largest car dealers has come to Lawrence, and it has taken over one of the city’s busiest and most scrutinized dealerships. Cable Dahmer — the owner of eight dealerships in the Kansas City and Topeka metros — has completed a purchase of Lawrence Kia. In recent ...