Lawrence retail sales trend upward in may after two months of declines; improving numbers key to upcoming city budget

Jun 4, 2025 @ 11:28am - Chad Lawhorn 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 ... Jun 3, 2025 @ 2:44pm - Chad Lawhorn If you

are still finding your way around the world of golf (don’t go more than chest-deep into the pond, lest it impact your backswing,) you may not know that there are a couple of different types

of driving ranges. There’s the traditional driving range where you put a ball on a tee, hit ... Jun 2, 2025 @ 3:28pm - Chad Lawhorn Lawrence is in the business of giving young people a start

— the biggest event of the year, after all, is named “commencement.” Starter homes, though, not so much. In fact, it is difficult to find a city that is worse at it, a new report suggests.

The trade journal Construction ... May 29, 2025 @ 12:38pm - Chad Lawhorn Plans have been filed for more than 200 apartments — totaling about 400 bedrooms — to be built along a portion of the

golf course at the Jayhawk Club in west Lawrence. City of Lawrence planners have received a preliminary development plan to convert a vacant 17-acre parcel just south of ... May 27, 2025 @

11:11am - Chad Lawhorn If you squint, you can start to see the Lawrence real estate market getting a little easier for homebuyers. But don’t fully blink, as homes are still moving on and off

the market very quickly. Lawrence home sales in April were unchanged — 97 in total — from a year ago, according to the ... May 23, 2025 @ 10:01am - Chad Lawhorn News and notes from around

town: The empty lot at the southwest corner of Sixth and Alabama streets has been a longtime healthy holdout. Just up the street there has been a plethora of fast food restaurants develop —

a McDonalds, a Burger King, a Taco Bell, a Taco John’s and more. But ...