UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 18, 1993
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Flooding delays apartment construction
By Traci Carl
Kansan staff writer
Paul Kotz/ KANSAN
For Doug Compton, building an ark would have been more practical than apartment complexes.
Rains delayed construction on the new Chamberlain Court Apartments complex, 18th and Ohio streets, but it should be open for students to move in Friday, contractors said.
Flooding and rain has delayed apartment construction for Compton and other Lawrence developers, and students are staying in hotels while construction crews finish.
Some developers have not leased their apartments at all.
Compton, owner of First Management, worried all summer that excessive rains would delay completion of the renovations at the Oread building, 12th and Oread streets, and construction on the new complex Chamberlain Court, 18th and Ohio streets.
Floods elsewhere delayed the arrival of supplies for the Oread building and Lawrence rains prevented work on Chamberlain Court until the roofs were completed, Compton said. Now crews are trying to make up for
Daniel Fitzhugh, Kansas City, Kan,
senior, knows how hard the construction
crew has worked. This summer
Fitzhugh worked on the crew that
renovated the Oread building and he
plans to move in as soon as his apartment
is finished.
"We've absolutely worked our tails off over there," Compton said. "I've spent more on overtime in the last month than I have all year."
Now crews are trying to make up for lost time.
Units in the Oread building will be
finished by the end of the week instead of by the first part of August, as was originally planned, Compton said. Chamberlain Court should be done Friday, he said.
Compton is paying for residents to say at Westminster Inn until their units are finished.
Chris Noel,
Hutchinson junior,
had planned to move
in on Aug. 9 when he
started a new job.
He had stayed with
friends until Monday,
when he moved to Westminster Inn.
"I was bummed because I had all my
stuff up here and I didn't have anywhere to put it." Noel said. "But I understand their situation and they've been doing what they can to make sure people had a place to stay." Compton isn't the only one who is struggling to finish apartments.
"I don't think there is anything in town that hasn't been slowed up," Shultz said.
Mike Stultz, owner of Fwan Management, wanted to finish his new development, Eagle Apartments, Sixth and Eldridge streets, by Sept. 1. Now he plans on having the units completed by Jan. 1. Stultz said only 25 percent of the 149 units were completed.
Excessive rains held up concrete work for two months, he said.
Lawrence isn't the only college town that has had development slowed by weather. Compton also is building complexes in Manhattan. And he hasn't been as successful in catching up on lost time there.
"I have 180 units that just had their roofs out on." Compton said.
David Severn, manager of Leanna-
Mar and LoriMar, said construction on complexes at Wimbledon and Inverness streets in Lawrence also were slowed by rain. But they completed eight units by Sunday, which was what he expected.
Severn said he didn't lease units until he knew they would be completed. He said he remembered reading about residents who didn't have a place to stay last year because apartments weren't completed.
"We wanted to avoid a situation like that." Severn said.
Former Jayhawk arrested in connection with thefts
Kansan staff report
Former Kansas guard Terry Brown was arrested Friday in connection with three 1992 Lawrenceburg planes.
Brown, 24, was arrested at 11:30 a.m. Friday and posted $3,000 bond at 4:40 p.m., according to Douglas County District Court documents. He was charged with one count of burglary, two counts of felony theft and three counts of misdemeanor theft, the records said.
The most severe charge against Brown is a Class D felony, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years if he is convicted.
The court documents connected Brown to one burglary in August 1992 and two in December 1992. Among the items reported stolen were VCRs, a television, leather coats and jewelry.
Brown's first appearance in district court has been set for Aug 25.
Street lamps installed
Kansan staff report
The University campus will be brighter this fall after the installation of 105 halogen street lights.
"We have high hopes that they'll be all ready by the end of the week." Porter said.
Facilities operations is replacing the original 14-foot light poles with 20-foot poles for the walkways and 30-foot poles for the street, said Bob Porter, associate director of facilities operations. He expected the lighting installation, the second phase of the campus-wide lighting improvement project, to be completed before Monday.
The bulbs will be 10 times brighter than the older bulbs and will use one-fifth the voltage.
Student Senate approved financing the project with a temporary $2 student fee, which is being charged from Fall 1992 until Spring 1997, said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs and head of the campus lighting advisory committee. Ambler said the committee had made recommendations for areas on campus that needed more lighting.
Porter said.
"With the help of John Mullens of the campus police, we identified high crime areas where lighting will help increase safety," Ambler said.
Ambler said the walkways from Robinson Gymnasium to Watkins Health Center and the student parking lot were some areas that had new lights.
"This should really help those students parking there late at night, especially commuting students," Ambler said.
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