THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2015
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Upcoming apartment complex secures site, but has yet to start work
The fences are up for the construction of an upcoming apartment complex on 11th and Indiana streets, but the work has not begun. Students and residents around the area are questioning the reason why the fences went up and no construction workers are at the site.
Lawrence city planner Sandy Day confirmed the project's development group, HERE LLC, is still in the process of starting construction at the site.
["HERE LLC is] initiating pre-construction activities that includes demolition and site preparation before the actual construction," Day said.
In addition to these activities, HERE LLC still awaits approval and work permits from the city of Lawrence to move forward. The company has submitted permit applications for land use entitlements, zoning, demolition permits and a preliminary development plan. The applications are still under review.
Barry Walthall, a Lawrence building codes administrator, confirmed the city hasn't issued a permit for the workers to start working. He said the company is currently going through an approval process.
"It's in a beginning stage right now." Walthall said.
The city of Lawrence previously declined an application by the development company due to an issue with the number of parking spaces for the complex in October. The company proposed fewer parking spaces than the city's required number of spaces.
HERE LLC has yet to confirm its next step for the construction, but information about the apartment complex will be in its next press release.
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Project development group HERE LLC has fenced the area at 11th and Indiana streets where a future apartment complex is supposed to go up. The fences have gone up, but construction has not started.
TOPEKA — Kansas legislators are likely to consider allowing people to carry concealed firearms without requiring a state permit.
Twenty-six of the Kansas Senate's 40 members introduced a bill Wednesday to end the permit requirement. The lead sponsor is Majority Leader and Nickerson Republican Terry Bruce.
Alumi Eric and Michelle Voth donated artist Albert Bloch's "Summer" to the Spencer Museum of Art.
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Bruce said it makes sense to allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit because they already can carry firearms openly. Lawmakers last year prohibited cities and counties from restricting the open carrying of firearms, though state law didn't ban the practice. Under the bill, people could still seek concealed-carry permits if they wanted to be able to carry their weapons in other states that recognize Kansas permits.
University alumni donate rare painting to Spencer Museum of Art
Kansas to consider allowing concealed carry without permits
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Bloch until his death in 1961.
"I'm very loyal to KU, and I thought it would be a wonderful memory of Bloch and his wife, as she had just passed," Eric Voth said.
Voth inherited "Summer," which portrays a woman and what appears to be a circus-type figure, along with a large flower. Voth described the piece as bright, with a lot of yellow and orange. He also said he believes it to be unique.
He also thought the donation could honor his father, who had the second largest Bloch collection in the world. Voth's family was actually friends with Bloch and his wife. The two remained in contact with
"The really neat thing about it is that he painted it as he was transitioning to the University of Kansas," Voth said. "It's one of the few pieces from that era that he actually put out."
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The painting was added to the art museum's 20/21 Gallery that displays two other Bloch paintings.
"Summer' has a very distinct sense of color, which is pretty unusual for a painter who often worked in Cubist style," said Susan Earle, curator of
Eric and Michelle Voth, University alumni and longtime friends of Albert Bloch, an American Modernist artist and former chairman of the department of visual art, recently donated "Summer," a painting of Bloch's, to the Spencer Museum of Art.
European and American art at the museum.
Voth said he hopes students can appreciate the significance
the painting holds here at the University.
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