Even as a city grew up around it — and a 2018 fire nearly destroyed it — a site just east of 23rd and Haskell has served as a John Deere dealership for decades. By Friday evening that will come to an end. A manager with Heritage Tractor confirmed the company is shutting down its Lawrence ...
In a world of uncertainty, longtime Lawrence developer Doug Compton thinks he’s got one thing figured out: If you are waiting for interest rates to return to their historic lows of 3%, you are going to wait a long time. “I don’t think you will ever see 3% again,” Compton said of ...
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 ...
News and notes from around town: 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 ...