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Tuesday, April 28, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Commissioners to be advised on how to break mall contract
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Lawrence City Commission watchers may experience deja vu at tonight's commission meeting.
Four years after dumping its first contracted downtown mall developer, the commission is to hear a report tonight from the city attorney on how to break its contract with a second developer.
Such an action would take downtown mall developers back to square one, although city commissioners said repeatedly last week that they would move quickly to settle on a new development plan.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The commission action comes almost a month after city elections, in which voters overwhelmingly rejected a downtown mall proposal being developed by Jacobs, Visconsi
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Jacobs of Cleveland
JVJ and its local mall partner, Town Center Venture Corp., in 1984 signed a contract, called a developer-of-record contract, to develop a mall for the city. JVJ has proposed a 365,000-square-foot mall in the 600 block of downtown.
In 1983, the commission rejected, on a 3-2 vote, a mall plan put forth by the first developer, Sizer Realty, a New Orleans developer, and TCVC. Sizer, which had been the city's developer-of-record for two years, had proposed a mall in the 700 and 800 blocks of Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets.
At last week's meeting, commissioners postponed a decision on the future of the Urban Renewal Agency until after tonight's contract report. The URA was created by the commission to solicit public input on the 600-block mall plan.
Questions arose at last week's meeting as to whether the URA's charter forbade it to work on any other development project. URA chairman Joel Jacobs had requested that the URA be allowed to expand its authority to include all downtown development.
At tonight's meeting, commissioners also will consider:
The five-member URA and its three subcommittees suspended all meetings after the April 7 election.
- Appointments to the Mayor's Committee on Drug Abuse, which last week issued its first report on drug abuse in Lawrence. Representatives from 13 Lawrence groups will be selected.
A staff report on an ordinance that assesses sidewalk repair costs. Jan O'Neil, Lawrence resident, recently protested to the commission that the city overcharged her for repairs to her sidewalk.
On the Record
An amprobe electric tester, meg-ohm electric tester, an electric tester, a digital truck scale, a laboratory scale and a hot plate, valued at $2,910, were taken Saturday or Sunday from the office of a business in the 900 block of east Eighth Street, Lawrence police said.
A two-way radio valued at $2,500 was taken Friday from a telephone company truck that was parked in front of Spooner Hall, KU police said.
Two video cassette recorders, a VHS video camera and a portable tape deck, valued at $1,858, were
taken sometime Saturday or Sunday from a building in the 200 block of Ninth Street, Lawrence police said. ■ A video cassette recorder, a pink 12-inch color TV, an AM-FM cassette stereo and speakers, two snow tires and white rims, valued at $1,450, were taken Saturday or Sunday from a residence in the 1600 block of east 19th Street, Lawrence police said. Property damage was estimated at $75.
A bicycle valued at $700 was taken Sunday from the hallway of an apartment complex in the 1300 block of
Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said.
Forty cassette tapes and a case, valued at $200, were taken Saturday or Sunday from a KU student's car parked in an apartment complex at 15th Street and Crestline Drive, Lawrence police said.
- Cassette tapes, a checkbook and various credit and L.D. cards, valued at $125, were taken Sunday from a KU student's locked car parked in an apartment complex at 15th Street and Crestline Drive, Lawrence police said.
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