University Daily Kansan, January 16, 1985
Page 11
CAMPUS AND AREA
City gets more time for depot decision
By JAS STROHMAIER
Staff Reporter
Union Pacific Railroad Co. granted an extension Monday to allow the city more time to decide the fate of the Railroad's 96-year-old dep building in North Lawrence, according to a member of the city's negotiating team.
A three-member team representing the City Commission met with Union Pacific officials Monday in Omaha, Neb., to discuss what action if any should be taken to preserve the depot.
Bob Moody, a member of the Depot Preservation Committee and the negotiating team, said Union Pacific would be forced to cancel Feb. 28 to give the city more time to decide whether the depot would be purchased and removed from its
present site at North Second and Maple streets, or turned over to Union Pacific for demolition.
"It was a very positive meeting today (Monday)," Moody said. "They're willing to work with us on the project."
MIKE AMYX, DEPOT committee chairman and a negotiating team representative, said the main concerns of the committee were to find a location that the building could be moved to inexpensively and to look for possible financing alternatives from the private sector.
"Right now we're going to be soliciting sites in the North quarter where, from a dollar and cents point, it is more economical," Amyx said.
"We want a place where we can show off the building."
Moody said the railroad offered to donate the building and agreed to either provide other Union Pacific-
owned land away from the railroad tracks as a site for the depot or to help pay $10,000 for its removal — the amount it would cost Union Pacific to pay a contractor to demolish the building
The committee, formed by the City Commission at its Dec. 18 meeting, originally had been given 30 days to come to Union Pacific with proposals for moving and making the building a deadline would have been tomorrow.
CONTROVERS ABOUT the depot developed in early December when Union Pacific officials decided to demolish the building. Members of the North Lawrence Improvement Association, and later the City Commission, sought a plan to save the depot from demolition.
The stone building, built in 1899 by architect Henry Van Brunt, who designed KU's Spooner Hall, is
considered by many North Lawrence residents to be a historic landmark
The negotiating team, composed of Moody, Amyx and Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, bargained for more time with Union Pacific officials to find a spot for the building away from the railroad tracks, to plan to finance the move and to develop possible uses for the building.
Two developers have expressed an interest in the denot.
Rob Phillips, developer for Riverfront Square on North Second St., and Steve Clark, the developer who proposed a riverfront retail mall east of City Hall, were interested in moving the building to property they own.
If the committee decides to accept the building, the project for removal and use will be turned over to a non-profit organization.
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