University Daily Kansan / Tuesday April 7 1987
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Voters give opinion today on proposed downtown mall
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city would have to pay for new checks.
After relocation, Zacharias said the city would pay $255,000 to level the block, which was more than 500,000 square feet.
Legal fees of $195,000 also would be added.
After eminent domain is declared, the owners have to sell to the city. But they don't have to accept the city's offered price, Zacharias said. If the city and owners cannot agree on a price, the city files suit for condemnation, which allows the city to take the property and proceed with development while a court determines the price.
Even then, both the city and owners have the option of appeal.
Jim Pearson, Manhattan assistant city attorney, said six owners were still in court seeking an agreeable price although their land was plowed the previous year and sits beneath a new downtown Manhattan mall that will open in October.
Charles Hedges, who appraised the block for Lawrence, said his estimates were likely to change. In the interim between the appraisal and actual purchase, owners either make
building improvements to increase the value of their property and let it deteriorate because the building is doomed anyway.
"The problem with appraisal on a certain day is that the next day, the appraisal can be obsolete," Hedges said. "You don't know what the final figures are going to be until the last day."
Zacharias said, "There are possible challenges all the way through it."
However, appraisal challenges are not certain. Hedges, who owns Hedges Real Estate and Insurance, said he worked on a sewer project for Lawrence involving 51 land owners, and no one challenged the city's offer.
JVJ estimates that total cost of the mall would be $29,280,000, including city utility, street and traffic work collection of a $1.6 million parking garage.
JVJ would pay $35,387,330 for the mall's actual construction. After it was built, JVJ would pay an estimated $76,000 to rent the property. In return, the mall would also would pay $100,000 annually to help support the parking garage.
said last month that construction could start next year and that the mall could open in 1899.
How the city would raise $20 million was not certain except that the city wouldn't use direct taxation, Zacharias said. A feasibility study to determine the best way to raise the money was delayed by the city commission until after today's vote.
Don Jones, JVJ vice president.
"We have no money. We're just in the middle of the process here," he said.
The city would probably use some sort of bond and property tax increment financing, he said. Property tax increment financing is the difference between current property tax value in the 600 block and the tax value after the mall is built. Other land owners' taxes would not rise.
The city would like to use sales tax increment financing, but state law stands in the way. Another barrier is that some Lawrence legislators refuse to introduce a bill to change that state law.
Also yet to be determined, Zacharias said, was the final, actual cost, the impact on and integration with adjacent neighborhoods, traffic and pedestrians, facade, basic layout of mall shops, commitments from three
department stores and installation of city utilities.
Once built the mall would encompass 360,000 square feet in floor space. In comparison, Topeka's White Lakes Mall has 492,000 square feet. In Overland Park, Oak Park Mall has 1,189,000 square feet, and Metcalf South mall has 594,336 square feet.
But not one square inch will be built unless the citizens say yes.
And the owners in the block are awaiting their answer.
But, Longhurst says, what really led to his demise at the primary was his role in the downtown mall debate
"There were downtown merchants who said I had a personal reason to advocate any policy downtown. I was charged to loss no matter what I did," he said.
Longhurst, who was an outspoken supporter of the mall, was invariably identified as the villain, he said.
"If I had been politically astute, I would have voted the same way and said the same things differently," he said.
But, according to some city com-
munities, you wouldn't have been David Lloyd West.
directness," Angino said. "He had the courage to stick to his guns, and when he was on the losing end, he never held any grudge."
Shontz said, "He has a way of impressing the listener with sincerity and presenting arguments that are very convincing. And somehow, once you've heard him, it's hard to put the argument in another perspective."
"His style was forthrightness and
Former Mayor Mike Amyx said, "He gave out a very positive image of the community. The one impression David gave me more than anything else was the image of being a real go-getter. He put every bit of his energy into everything he did."
taken away his innocence, but not his business drive.
That energy, Longhurst said, is now going now to be directed toward the moon.
Besides, he said, the extra time he will have will allow him to do the things he loves to do — jog a few miles everyday, read a few science fiction novels and, most of all, be with his family.
Until now, Longhurst had been able to set aside only Sunday as the day he spent with his family, which includes his second wife, Nancy, and his son, John. That, however, may change now.
Property owners affected by mall proposal
"I can almost physically feel a burden being lifted," he said. "I have neglected my business for four years. I put myself under so much pressure. All of a sudden, all that tension is gone. That's exhilarating."
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Sources: Douglas County Clerk's office, Douglas County Register of Deeds office and the Lawrence Community Development department. City lots are 170 feet by 50 feet. OFC 640 OF MASSACHUSETTS STREET - Owen Towers
K and Juanta F Marsh, Lawrence / 623 - M&M Office Sponsors
Wests (16th, 40th feet) and 32nd half of lot (10).
East (15th, 40th feet) and 29th half of lot (10)
Lost (11/10) and 2/WWS (8/10). Atchison
Wins (7/10) and 2/WWS (8/10).
Lots Less NMS of N0 (3) and 4(NM). The World
Daily News Daily World Journal and owns Sun
Daily News Daily World Journal and owns Sun
Let 4(1'S)/2 = 6; Michael F. Lechtemberg,
4/16 - Electric Supply Company, Inc.
7-237-9080-4000
8Lot N/Y* - Betty S. Underwood, Lawrence /
Electric Supply company, care of Michael F.
Lewis
LET 31% less 58" - Clifton C. Carson, 615-264-7720
Lets 39% less 76" - John E. Sullivan, 615-264-7720
Lets 29% less 76" - John J. Sullivan and Chrysler A.
Sullivan
Lake 8(s)V and 10(n)V - Park Hetzel III and
Park Hetzel Jr. Trustees; Lawrence 622
Hatzel Jr. Trustees
- Lot 9 S/9*). 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 - Lawrence
National Bank and Trust company. Lawrence / 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 - Associates. W.B. Pendleton, M.D. D., S.J. Hults office; Kidder Peabody, M.D. L. Greenhempen, D.M.D. Swanson and Associates. Northwestern life. Pizza Concepts. Kummer Affiliates. P. L. Greenhempen
600 BLOCK OF VERMONT STREET - Owners/Tenants
Lot 12 and 14 (N/9): * Nancy Sandik, Nana Bayou* buying, * 624 Persons and Kring Floor Covering*, Lot 14(S/10); and * 16 - First United Methodist Church of San Diego Jock Ellenna, Lawrence in*
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Lot 10$S1 - Hovey H. Hanna, Lawrence /
628 - Jawach Fire Equipment
Lawrence (601-8403) and More
Lot 1(6%) - Triple J Investments, Lawrence
one-quarter interest. Jerald, Thomas, Kenneth
and Ruby Jennings). (690 vacant)
and (buby denings) - 606/avacant
Lot 2- Robert P. and Pauline G. Harrison.
Lot 6 N(40) - Larry D. and Harriett D. Johnson,
Tomka / vacant
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Lot 6. S10 (5%) B, N10) B, 1 Less S20 less 4' E28)
National Bank and Trust Company, Lawrence
Lot 7 - Holt Land Company, Lawrence. The
company is a local land developer / 623 one-part
vachit K22 - KEFFY's place, a claver.
Lost $184 of E28 and $30. 10 Less W98 of N20 -
Howard J. Huwitz and Beverley F. Friedman.
Lawrence / 282. 675 Salvation Army.
Third Stir.
Lots 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 and adjacent vacated
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leased to Postal Management Services. North
leased to Postal, Calif. and occupied by United
States Post Office
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Stephan calls for disqualification
DONALD G. STROLE
TOPEKA — U.S. Magistrate G.T.
Van Bebber yesterday began study
on a motion by Attorney General Bob
Stephan to have Topeka attorneys,
Marge Phelps, Shirley Phelps and
Fred Phelps Sr., disqualified from
representing Marcia Tomson. Tomson brought suit against Stephan alleging sexual harassment.
An aide said Van Bebber did not plan to rule on the motion until he
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determined whether correspondence submitted to him by Stephan was pertinent to the case and should be turned over to Tomson's attorney.
The magistrate ruled earlier that Stephan had to disclose to Tomson's attorney letters exchanged between him and former Attorney General Vern Miller of Wichita. The magistrate said the correspondence was no longer privileged under the attorney-client relationship that once existed between Stephan and Miller.
In support of his case, Stephan said the three Phelpses had personal knowledge about an alleged meeting in March 1858 to arrange settlement of a previous lawsuit brought by Tomson against Stephan, and could testify about the meeting.
During his testimony yesterday, Stephan denied he went to the Phelps' offices to negotiate the settlement.
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