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LAWRENC DEVELOPMENT
Commission delays condo project vote
By Brandon Baker
bbaker@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
City commissioners voted to delay their final vote on a project for building a five story project on the 700 block of New Hampshire Street. Next week city commissioners will decide if the project will rise into the Lawrence skyline bringing new retail, office and living space to downtown.
Students may never live in those spaces.
Mayor David Dunfield said the project would be good for Lawrence business, but students would have a hard time buying the condominiums.
"It's pretty upscale," Dunfield said. "I doubt students can afford them."
Hunter Harris works as the vice president of business development for Harris Construction, the company that pitched the project for the 700 block of New Hampshire Street. Harris said the spaces were not for rent and the cost to buy a condominium could be out of students' price range. Harris said the company had not set a final price to buy the condominiums.
"If they want to buy from us, more power to them," Harris said. "We're an equal housing provider."
Kristin Werner, Shawnee senior, lives in a home her parents bought. She said she preferred to live in a home close to campus rather than a condominium on New
Harris said marketing studies revealed single business people without children were more likely to buy housing than transient students living on a limited budget.
Hampshire Street.
"I wanted to live in a big, old, crickety house," Werner said. "That's what I had when I was a kid."
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he doubted the project would decrease demand for student housing on campus. Stoner said students chose to live on or close to campus because it made adjusting to college life easier.
"The first-year students get familiar with the University, then the community," Stoner said.
Stoner thought the project could take business away from the other apartments in Lawrence.
The project will be five stories tall, towering 72 feet over the Lawrence horizon. The design of the project allows retail space on the first floor and the second floor to be office space. The third through fifth floors will be for the condos.
Harris said businesses had expressed an interest in the locations. A bank has booked space on the first floor and 60 percent of the office space had been leased pending the commission's approval.
Harris said after commissioners passed the project, construction crews would complete the project in 11 months.
Werner said her parents bought the house to save money on rent and that the original investment of $140,000 would be worth it after she and her siblings lived in the house for the next nine years. Her parents planned on selling the house after she and her siblings graduated, she said.
- Edited by Amy Kelly
NATION
U.S. Marshals apprehend fugitive charged with murder
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 most wanted fugitives was captured early yesterday in Kansas City.
Larry Flenoid, 52, had been missing since he escaped from a Bureau of Prisons halfway house in St. Louis on May 5, 2000. The St. Louis County Police Department charged Flenoid with murder, kidnapping, burglary and assault on the day he escaped.
Flenoid was captured about 12:30 a.m.yesterday by deputy U.S. marshals and members of the Kansas City Police Career Criminal Squad after marshals were tipped off that he was hiding here.
Ron Henderson, U.S. Marshal for eastern Missouri, said Flenoid's arrest history dated to 1968 and included convictions of burglary, weapons violations, robbery, narcotics possession and parole violation.
"This is exactly the type of offender with a long and violent criminal history that U.S. marshals (work) hard every day to track down and arrest," Henderson said.
The Associated Press
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