University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1982
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Commission hears development firms
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night interviewed representatives from three development firms to determine whether the city's "developer of record"
The firm selected as developer of record will draw up preliminary plans and make financial arrangements downstream redevelopment project.
The city commission is expected to name one of the firms developer of record at its Sept. 28 meeting. Before the meeting, the city will be on further questions the commission had about the development firms.
SOME OF those questions include the extent of financial involvement of the partners of each firm. Representatives from each firm did say, however, that the firms anticipated maintaining at least a 50 percent ownership share of the project.
The interviews were conducted by the city commission, but also attending were representatives from the Downtown improvement district. The earlier selected these three firms from a field of eight that had repudiated
to the city's development prospectus that was mailed out to 150 firms earlier this year.
THE THREE firms interviewed were Sizer Realty Company, Inc., Kemer, La.; Two Crowns, Inc., FtL; and Link Programs, Inc., Chicago.
Representatives from the firms said that the present character of downtown Lawrence must be encouraged not to be harmed by any redevelopment.
The firms' estimates of the proposed project's size ranged from 200,000 square feet to 400,000 square feet.
All of the firms also indicated a desire to have the Weaver's Department Store, Ninth and Massa-playes, play a large role in the project.
THE GENERAL consensus of the commission appeared to be that the final decision would be between Sizerle Realty and Link Programs.
Commissioner Don Binns, however, said that Two Crowned did have some interesting things to present in this report, but a more non-traditional approach.
He said that approach might be better suited to Lawrence.
No other commissioners appeared to support Bins
Planning office director announces resignation
R. Keith Lawton, director of KU facilities planning for 30 years, announced Friday that he would retire at the end of this month.
Lawton has worked as an administrator at KU for 34 years, and will continue to serve the University on a part-time special assistant to the chancellor.
Robert P. Cobb, executive vice chancellor, spoke highly of the 63-year-old administrator.
"The University has had no servant more loyal over the years than Robert Keith Lawton." Cobb said. "His energies, effervescence and dedication to and faculty of the University and to the people of the state are legendary.
"For more than a year, Mr. Lawton has expressed a desire to retire early from his administrative position. Until now, we have persuaded him to stay."
LAWTON HAS been in charge of facilities planning since 1951, although the name of the job has been changed to that of manager. Before 1961 he was director of housing.
As director of facilities planning, Lawton oversees the buildings on the Lawrence campus, manages the physical plant department, the in-house architectural and planning divisions and the security and parking divisions.
KU administrators have not yet found a replacement for Lawton, but they said a search committee would be hired to hire a new facilities planning director.
LAWTON, who received his bachelor's degree from the KU School of Business in 1947, spoke about his early retirement.
"Mrs. Lawton and I decided sometime ago that we were at a certain optimum juncture regarding professional duties and other matters, at which we wished to seek new adventures in the marshal's shift, as it were, in intensity," he said.
The retiring administrator said he was flattered and delighted to be asked by the chancellor to continue to serve as special assistant as a special assistant to the chancellor.
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