University Daily Kansan, July 24, 1985
Page 11
City reaches tentative plan with mall project developer
By Shawn Aday
Staff Reporter
Texan Bob Wright and the Lawrence City Commission came close to a showdown last night over the proposed riverfront mall project.
Wright, president of Two Crowns Inc., the Fort Worth, Texas, company that is developing the project, wanted to know what street and utility improvements the city would require his company to pay.
"What are you going to require me to do on streets and utilities?" Wright asked. "It's an important issue to set boundaries, otherwise I'm left handing."
City commissioners wanted to know how Wright's project, which has not been researched with market and traffic studies, would affect the neighborhood, streets and utilities before making a commitment.
You tell us how many square feet, 'how many people will be using it,' Commissioner Ernest Angiola said. 'I know where to start without that.'
Wright and the commissioners finally reached a tentative agreement that the city would provide utilities up to the site and that the
developer would pay for extra-ordinary street improvements made necessary by greater traffic flow.
He said Rhode Island Street was a good example. It might require repacing because of the mall's design but would not require widening. He said that repaving should fall within the city's responsibility.
"I could go and do my thing with market studies and traffic studies and you could come back and demand all kinds of street and utility improvements that would stop the project cold." Wright said.
Wright said he did not think the project was large enough to cause traffic problems for the neighborhood.
Angino said he thought the developer should be responsible for all street improvements north of Seventh Street and the city be responsible for improvements south of that street.
The issue of who would pay for street and utility improvements was one of four commitments sought by Wright. He said that would clear the way for business to be open by October or November and have the mall open for business next year.
The other requests were to repeal a flood plain ordinance that would set a minimum elevation requirement, vacate the rights of way for New York and Rhode Island streets that extend onto site property and extend to over 40 years the lease for property and air rights are needed because plans called for a building above the City Hall parking lot.
The commitments were added to the letter of intent issued in December to Lawrence developer Steve Clark for the original riverfront mall project. Two Crowns took over the project from Clark.
The company has obtained options to buy six buildings and three vacant lots of the Bowersock Mills and Power Co., the Reuter Organ Co. building, and two residential dwellings at the site, which is just east of City Hall.
The main financial backer for the project, by verbal agreement, Wright said, was a large Houston financial institution that had supported other projects for his company.
Two Crowns is no longer asking for the financial assistance.
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OLATHE — A 22-year-old KU student has been charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation killing Saturday of her newborn child, authorities said Monday.
Tammy J. James, Olathe senior, was charged Monday with the premeditated killing of the unnamed full-term baby boy at her home in Olathe, said Sandi Moore, Johnson County district attorney.
The child, who authorities said appeared healthy, was strangled shortly after he was born. James denied to police and hospital personnel that she was pregnant and denied having the baby, according to reports.
"The evidence we have right now indicates a first-degree murder charge is warranted." Moore said. "I cannot comment beyond that."
James appeared during a 10-minute hearing Monday before Johnson County District Judge Gerald Hogland. Holding her debt at $50,000 but agreed to release him from the county, they would post a $5,000 cash bond.
A preliminary hearing has been set for Monday.
Police said James' father found the dead child wrapped in a towel in his daughter's bedroom about three hours after she was taken to Olathe Community Hospital to be treated for excessive bleeding.
James, who is not married, is a summer employee of the Olathe
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Authorities think James had the baby in her bedroom sometime before 2 a.m. Saturday before she allegedly strangled the child. The scene indicates the woman was born, the child was born, police said.
Moore asked Houghton on Monday to order a mental competency evaluation for James. According to her attorney, Bill Hamblin, she was in倦怠 in the morning and provided information about the incident.
Hamblin said James' condition might have been caused by anesthetics.
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