City considers Marriott hotel at Lawrence Riverfront Plaza
Lawrence City Commission weighs a plan to convert part of the Riverfront Plaza into a Spring Hill Suites with 108 rooms and a pool. The proposal requests city help including parking spaces, a ground lease break, tax refunds, and a guest tax rebate up to $48,000 annually, deferred for review by the Lawrence Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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Lawrence City Commission
Lawrence Convention & Visitors Bureau
Commission
Lawrence Lodging LLC
Lawrence
Mike Rundle
David Dunfield
Review Board
Bill Newsome
Tucara Gwin
Journsal-Wortp
Puora Marriott International
Lawrence Riverfront Plaza
Lawrence City
Romero gets 90 more days to fix blighted Pa house
City commissioners grant Valentine Romero an additional 90 days to address problems at 904 Pa including nail board damage, venting, smoke detectors, root damage, and garage fire damage. An earlier Nov 23 notice gave 60 days, and a Jan 25 inspection showed some exterior progress but more work needed.
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Romero
Guilty plea in downtown robbery case outlined
James L. Simmons pleaded no contest to robbery criminal damage to property and possession of cocaine after a Sept 23 downtown heist at African Adored. He faces 31 to 136 months for robbery plus up to a year for cocaine and six months for damage with sentencing set March 14.
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Lawrence
Simmons
Graystone Apartments
Sixth and
Schwarz Roads
Tonkovich
Lawrence artist among five Kansas fellows from Arts Commission
Five Kansas artists including Carol Ann Carter of Lawrence will receive 5000 fellowships from the Kansas Arts Commission. The awards are presented at a Mulvane Art Museum reception on the Washburn University campus, with the ceremony at 6 p.m. Local recipients include Roderick Townley, H. L. Hix, Margo Kren, and Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, with Carter noted for her cross disciplinary work and national and international exhibitions.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Kansas Arts Commission
Mulvane Art Museum
Washburn University
Carol Ann Carter
Roderick Townley
Mission
H.L. Hix
Lansing
Margo Kren
Manhattan
Pauline
Baker University receives $396000 Hall Family Foundation gift
The Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City donates 396000 to Baker University to fund the Critical Thinking and Liberal Arts program and library technology The gift allocates 246000 to the program for faculty development course creation and conference travel and 150000 for library modernization The project includes a 6 million library renovation planned to begin in 2001 and will expand space and technology with high tech classrooms and resource areas The foundation has given Baker over 800000 since 1990 and the gift is its largest to the university The program established in 1988 is required for all freshmen and aims to integrate writing and primary texts The foundation and Baker leaders praise the ongoing support and innovation
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Kansas City
John Laney
Donald Hatcher
Hatcher
Baker
John Filler
Parmenter Hall
Kansas
Daniel Lambert
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