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Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday held public hearings and approved proposed boundaries for areas of tax breaks KU has requested for its Gateway District project.
Lawrence city commissioners will consider advancing multimillion-dollar tax incentives to help fund the second phase of KU’s Gateway Project and a proposed Q39 restaurant downtown. The meeting will include public hearings on both.
The Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday took the first step toward considering tax breaks to help KU construct its planned Gateway District near the football stadium.
KU is looking for a lot of tax breaks to make the $759 million Gateway District project a reality, but the chancellor’s office anticipates billions of dollars coming back to Lawrence in the long term.
As Kansas Athletics continues to renovate the KU football stadium, playing remaining home games at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City for the rest of the season will come with a steep price tag.
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As work on the KU football stadium continues, a street adjacent to the stadium will soon close to most traffic through mid-January 2025.
Some gamers are getting a glimpse of what the renovated Kansas football stadium will look like once construction is complete. In real life, the massive construction project is moving forward and wheat-themed lights are going up.
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As of Friday evening, KU commencement is set to begin in just more than 36 hours. Here’s a look at the football stadium.
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With 11 days until thousands of Jayhawks will celebrate completing their degrees, the KU football stadium shows it’s very much in the midst of construction. But KU is “absolutely” holding commencement there.
Kansas Athletics will pay a rental fee of $100,000 for each of the two football games it plans on hosting at Sporting Kansas City’s stadium during the upcoming season. Details on the cost of games at Arrowhead have not yet been disclosed.
