August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Construction has begun on three new retail buildings at The Crossing at KU, soon to bring three dining options to the development: CAVA, Playa Bowls and Jersey Mike’s.
Jacob Rice / Lawrence Times
The Mass Street business landscape is shifting as a mansion becomes an event venue, a beloved deli announces its return, a pizza shop suddenly closes and more.
Courtney Lane/Lawrence Times
Lawrence’s dining scene continues to flux, with a Pan-Asian restaurant preparing to close, an Italian restaurant set to open soon and a coffee shop opening downtown. Plus, a chain thrift store is coming to town.
Wulfe Wulfemeyer/Lawrence Times
Downtown Lawrence will welcome a new wine bar and kitchen opening next week with natural selections and a distinctly townie mindset.
Wulfe Wulfemeyer/Lawrence Times
A restaurant, a coffee chain and two retail stores located in downtown and East Lawrence have announced closures recently.
Wulfe Wulfemeyer/Lawrence Times
With no digital fanfare, but the reveal of a mouth-watering window display, a new smoothie shop has opened its doors on the downtown strip, and Lawrencians are flocking to the counter already.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Emily Lysen said the first community meeting about solidifying a permanent Lawrence Farmers Market location had an ideal setting: it was raining. That morning at the market demonstrated the need for an outdoor pavilion.
Maya Hodison/Lawrence Times
A Lawrence business owner plans to open a franchise of Kansas City-based ice cream shop Betty Rae’s this fall in west Lawrence.
Tom Harper/Lawrence Times
KU Endowment is looking to demolish the building that formerly housed Jayhawk Bookstore and McLain’s Market on KU’s campus to make room for the business school’s new entrepreneurship hub.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Daniel Luckey has worked in restaurants all over the downtown strip. Now, he’s channeling his decades of service industry experience into opening a grab-and-go-style smoothie and juice shop in the 800 block of Mass.
