The sun has set on an idea to use the former Sunrise Garden center as a 200-plus-space parking lot for a proposed apartment complex about a mile away in the Oread neighborhood. Lawrence businessman Doug Compton told me he recently canceled his contract to buy the former Sunrise Garden Center ...
News and notes from around town: ••• Perhaps you know the feeling: On Valentine’s Day chocolate and flowers sometimes suffice, while other years a piece of jewelry might be in order. Then there are those years where circumstances suggest — is that the right word — that something ...
While it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as its cousin “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas,” the song “Have a Nearly Average Christmas” would fairly well describe the Lawrence holiday season. At least, that’s what the latest retail sales numbers from the Kansas Department of ...
With tables and chairs arriving this week, Q39 barbecue owner Kelly Magee is reasonably confident in saying that the restaurant’s new downtown Lawrence location will have its grand opening on March 10. That’s something, given that confidence isn’t an emotion that has been overflowing ...
Costco has filed for a nearly $22 million building permit at Lawrence City Hall, the latest sign that its plans to build a store near Rock Chalk Park in northwest Lawrence remain on track. The building permit, which was filed with the city one week ago, also may get us closer to a starter’s ...
A Lawrence business is more than doubling the size of its space after recognizing a surprising trend — cross-stitch has cross-over appeal. The needle and thread craft of cross stitch — long considered the domain of an older generation — has become quite popular with younger women. Now a ...