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Wednesday, July 27, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Lawrence development is progressing
River project plans debated
By Karen Boring
Kansan staff writer
Many of Lawrence's development projects are converging at Sixth and New Hampshire streets as plans progress for the Kansas River Plaza shopping center.
An artist's conception of the riverfront project as seen from the northwest.
Steve Traynor/KANSAN
The East Lawrence Trafficway, the Downtown Lawrence Association's traffic study and the planning of the south bank of the Kansas River all were topics at a city study session Thursday.
The city signed a lease agreement this month with the Chelsea Group, a New Jersey firm that is developing the riverfront project. The city agreed to spend up to $3.5 million for a 675-stall parking garage, street improvements and connections for water and utilities.
John Bushman, a parking consultant from the Walker company of Aurora, Colo., said at the Thursday study session that he wanted input from those affected by the plan before starting to draw alternatives.
The riverfront shopping center will house factory outlet stores on three levels. It is scheduled to open in summer 1989. It will be on city-owned land between New Hampshire and New York streets. The parking lot is a crossroad record tracks from the shopping center and north of Sixth Street.
Half a dozen east Lawrence residents, three city commissioners and a representative of the Downtown Lawrence Association gathered around the blueprints for the riverfront center to discuss concerns.
"We would like to see the footprint of this thing be kept as small as possible and as far west as possible," said Barry Shalinsky, president of the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association. "I enjoy the trees and wildlife and wild berries that grow here."
Art Transue, an east Lawrence resident for more than 30 years, said he thought the shopping center wouldn't need 675 parking spaces. He
asked that the traffic be kept as light as possible on Rhode Island Street, where he lives.
Although the study session was called to discuss the parking garage, changes in traffic at Sixth and New Empire streets also were discussed.
The Chelsea Group has asked that New Hampshire Street be made two-way so that the shopping center could be easily entered from the west.
In a separate plan, the proposed East Lawrence Trafficway would route traffic through Lawrence from the Ninth Avenue street by way of New Harper Street.
Kent Smalter, a member of the Downtown Lawrence Association's parking committee, said that the association was considering a loop of one-way streets around downtown to help with traffic movement.
"What we need to do is make less of a bottleneck," he said.
that any changes to the intersection of Sixth and New Hampshire streets did have to be approved by the state Department of Transportation because Sixth Street is also Highway 59 near that intersection.
City Manager Buford Watson said
Bushman said that New Hampshire and Rhode Island streets were the most obvious choices as entrances to the shopping center.
Shalinsky said that Rhode Island Street should be an entrance or an exit, so that it would not have to be widened. He also said that the aesthetics of the parking garage were important and that he did not want to see blank concrete walls towering on the street. He then gested digging down and making the parking garage more levels in a smaller area.
Bushman said that with a multilevel structure, air circulation would need to be monitored.
Watson said an automated vent system was not a good option
because of the noise and cost involved in operating it.
The Chelsea Group presented a preliminary site plan to the Lawrence City Commission on July 19. Gould Evans Architects, a local firm, is doing consulting work on the Kansas River Plaza.
The Chelsea Group will submit a final site plan to the city commission Aug. 9. Dave Evans of Gould Evans Architects said the final site plan for the Kansas River Plaza was available for public review in the planning office at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
At the July 19 city commission meeting, John Lungstrum, a lawyer for the Chelsea Group, encouraged the public to look over the plan.
"We don't want to rush anyone, but we do want to come in to the meeting Aug. 9 ready for approval," he said.
On Aug. 9, the city commission also
shopping center and parking garage
OLYMPICS
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Former professional basketball player Julius "Dr. J" Erving will be the guest of honor at the games ceremony at 8 p.m. in Memo Harbor, the location the ceremony is for the Junior Olympic torch will be lit and the athletes will march in.
The athletes will proceed, by state, down the hill from the Campanile. They will wear Junior Olympic T-shirts that they will receive when they register. The state flags will be displayed around the top of the stadium. The 45-piece 312 Army Band, directed by Paul Gray, will play each state song as the group enters the stadium.
Barb Heck, Lawrence resident, is organizing the ceremony.
A hot-air balloon launch, a lighted
balloon balloon display and a laser
lighted fire alarm.
"We have some fun things planned that have never happened in life," he said.
KU tennis players and basketball players, led by tennis player Reggie Hodges, Compton, Calif., senior, will compose and perform an "Olympic rap."
Lawrence radio personality Hank Booth of KLWN will be the master of ceremonies. Chancellor Gene A. Budig, Mayor Bob Schumm and possibly Gov. Mike Hayden will speak. Heck said. Tickets for the ceremony are $2 and will be available at the door.
The AAU Junior Olympics is the biggest venture Lawrence has ever undertaken. Heck said.
Lawrence hotels and motels have been booked full for three or four weeks, said Jeff Morphew, night auditor at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
Athletes and sponsors also are expected to fill the Daisy Hill residence halls, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing at KU.
The AAU Junior Olympics are held in a different city each year. The event is almost entirely coordinated by volunteers.
Billings started bidding for the 1988 games in early 1986. Notification came in April 1987 that Lawrence had been chosen from four possible sites.
"Lawrence is the smallest community the games have ever been held in," she said. "The AAU became interested in us because of the facility, but we were not the community. Our facilities are outstanding. When the athlete steps into Allen Field House, Hoglund-Maupin Stadium or Memorial Stadium, they are going to feel really special."
Bilings attended last year's games in Syracuse and took part in the news conference at which Lawrence was addressed as the site for the 1988 games.
The 1989 games will be in San Antonio, Texas.
Athletes will compete in 14 sports at the 1988 AAU Junior Olympics in Lawrence. They are baseball, basketball, decathlon and heptathlon, field hockey, gymnastics, karate, soccer, swimming, synchronized swimming, tennis, Kwon Do, track and field, weightlifting and wrestling. Each sport has a volunteer commissioner who is in charge of the competition.
Most of the athletes' equipment was manufactured by manufacturers. Shepherd Jr.
"In all cases, the venues have been donated for use," Shepard said. "We are just paying for security and overtime staff. KU has been very generous."
The games will take place at sites, called venues, throughout Lawrence. Many of them are on campus.
The venues for the games: baseball at KU's Hogland-Maupin Stadium and Holcom Park's Ice Diamond; basketball at Allen Field House, Lawrence High School, Haskell Indian Junior College, Hol-
com Park Recreation Center and West Junior High School; decathlon, heptathlon, and track and field at Memorial Stadium; field hockey and soccer at the Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets; wrestling and synchronized swimming at Robinson Center; gymnastics at Haskell; karate at Lawrence High; swimming at the Lawrence Municipal Pool; table tennis at South Junior High School; Tae Kwon Do at Anschutz Sports Pavilion; and weightlifting at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Williams said he was excited to have the games in his hometown.
"Syracuse was a really nice university, but I think KU is one of the most beautiful campuses I've seen, and the facilities they will be using are pretty nice," he said.
Tickets are available at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, 209 W. Eighth St.; the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Rd.; and at several banks and sporting goods stores. The $10 buttons will admit the wearer to the games all week, but not to the games ceremony. One-day tickets cost $3.
Because some of the qualifying rounds have not been completed, games schedules are not yet available.
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