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Business trends are fluctuating for two restaurants and a retail store on Ninth Street this holiday season as they navigate the new normal of a long-term road closure for a major city project.
Temporary closures of part of K-10 in southern Lawrence are planned Tuesday, Dec. 23 for maintenance work, KDOT has announced.
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Although some major construction projects in Lawrence are ongoing and will be for months to come, two key streets are close to reopening.
Lawrence motorists may have noticed four open lanes on Iowa Street Thursday after almost a year of construction work. There are still a few finishing touches to be made, but the city will fully open the street next week.
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Lawrence City Commissioners on Tuesday approved a $4.82M increase to the budget and change in construction plans that will lead to a portion of Ninth Street being closed through the summer.
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City staff members are recommending portions of Ninth Street stay closed for construction through the summer without opening for the World Cup. City commissioners on Tuesday will consider an extra $4.8M expense related to the project.
Starting Monday, a construction project will reduce traffic on Bob Billings Parkway to one lane in each direction between Monterey Way and Kasold Drive. The city expects the work to take a year.
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The city will close a block of 9th Street for the Jayhawk Watershed project for several months starting Monday, and an impacted business is asking folks to make the slightly longer trek to their front doors to shop local this season.
The city is switching up which intersections are closed along Iowa Street as part of construction on the street, and also preparing to launch the Bob Billings Parkway improvement project.
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Business owners along Ninth Street near downtown Lawrence are concerned they could face devastating losses and possibly even closures as city construction work will soon close the arterial street that’s key to their livelihoods for several months.
