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Page 10 University Daily Kansan, June 11, 1981
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Holidome
From page one
Holdem was a benefit to the other hotels and hotels in the community, he said.
Based on the experience of the Brock Hotel Corporation in other communities, Lange said, other hotels did benefit from the additional business generated by a Holdome.
"Brock built a Holldome in Hutchinson about five years ago in a similar situation to that of Lawrence, she said. After the Holldome he also built a 14 to 15 percent increase in business."
Local keeperes said the Holidome would bring benefits to Lawnerton not before available. They all agreed the greatest benefit would be the Holidome's dining and banquet facilities.
ACCORDING TO A NEWSLETTER published by the Brock Corporation, the convention center will accommodate 1,000 people for banquets in June. The additional 1,000 people in the Brazilian Room.
according to the newsletter, the indoor recreation center will offer year-round recreation for all ages. Facilities will include a heated swimming pool, whirlpool, sauna, putting green, exercise room, billiards, pingpong tables and electronic game machines.
*Lawrence is going to be a favorite area to a lot of kids, and the activities the spouses and families can share. GRACE!*
A CONVENIENCE NEVER BEFORE enjoyed by the Lawrence community, he said, will be the shuttle bus service. It will originate at the Holdeme and will stop at other Lawrence motels the University of Kansas, and downtown. "Glenn said," shuttle bus service
"At present," Glenn said, "shuttle bus service was available only if prearranged."
mkntekes agreed that the additional 194 rooms in the Holidone provide advantages to the community and to themselves even though they do present additional competition.
Donohue said the city presently had 500 motel rooms available and the Holidone would increase that number to nearly 700.
*Functions that are not normally held here will be generated because of the added space we need.
“At least 90 percent of our market will be within a 200-mile radius,” she said. “About 60 percent of that business will be conventions and travel, the business of leisure, travel, and commercial business.”
THE RAMADA INN has already benefited from a Holiday booking, Anderson said. A State Board of Realtors meeting booked at the Hampton Inn and has given the Ramada Inn 168 bookings, she said.
Lange said she hoped to bring in state associations from the Topeka area and business related functions from other areas. She had been placed for education workshops because of the University, she said.
John Meyers, director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the convention of realists would bring in about 600 people and that 300 rooms had already been booked.
Lange said the Holdstone had already booked 30 to 35 groups, some tentatively and some definitely. Most of the bookings are for 1982 but some are for '83 and '84.
MEYERS SAID THE IMPORTANCE of the Holiday to Lawrence could not be more clear.
About 30 cents of each tourist dollar spent goes to the motel industry and most of the remainder to restaurants and other business in the community.
employed by the Holidome which will generate more revenue for the city. Travel-related expenditures should also increase, he said.
Meyers said the convention market was very competitive so the quality of facilities was important for attracting additional business. The Holdome will provide this quality, he said.
Census
From page one
Census counted 30,179 housing units in the city, 5,807 more units than in 1970.
The 40.4 percent growth rate in housing units in Lawrence was almost twice the state average.
LAWRENCE'S MINORITY POPULATION also showed a big jump in the 1970s, a trend, experts say, associated with a booming economy.
In 1980, the city's minority population included 2,919 blacks, 1,588 native Americans, 1,006 Asians and Pacific Islanders, and 1,330 minorities classified by the bureau as
In 1980, minorities constituted 13 percent of the city's population, against a state average of 9.3 percent.
SEVENTY-EIGHT PERCENT of the county's population resides in Lawrence.
payroll statistics of Kansas counties. On March 12, 1979, according to the bureau,
17,191 non-government employees were working in 127 establishments in the county.
Nearly a third of the employees were working in the retail trade. Another quarter were employed in manufacturing units. Less than a fifth were employed in various services.
THE FIGURES ARE a substantial increase from the the statistic and compare with the previous figures.
In 1979, 757,103 non-government employees were working in 55,330 units in the state, drawing an annual payroll exceeding $8.75 billion.
Annual growth rate in the number of employees was 9 percent, paid a state average of 6.4 percent.
The number of working establishments
in Lawrence, against a state average of 8 percent.
The annual payroll increase in 1979 was 15 percent, two percent higher than the state average of 13 percent.
WENDY CULLERBROOK school staff
The construction of the new Holdome, which is located in the southeast corner of second and Iowa streets, shall be completed in February 1982. The motel will be a convention center and shall offer conveniences to the community such as a bus shuttle service and increased number of conventions held in the city.
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