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Wednesday, June 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
New Jersey developer unveils plan for outlet mall on Kaw
By Karen Boring
Kansan staff writer
The Chelsea Group, a New Jersey development firm, presented a preliminary site plan for a riverfront shopping center to the Lawrence City Commission at a study session Monday afternoon.
The center is to be built on city-owned land between the Kansas River and the railroad tracks at Sixth and Rhode Island streets, where the Bowersock warehouse buildings are. It would contain retail outlet stores.
The center would be 150,000 square feet of shopping space on three levels. The "barbed-wire building," the oldest building east of the bridge behind City Hall, would be preserved for historic purposes. It would be renovated for retail space as part of
the center.
the center.
The developers plan to open the center June 1, 1989. Jeffrey Randol, spokesman for the Chelsea Group, said the center needed to be enclosed by the end of this year so the interior work could be done during the winter. To accomplish this, demolition of the existing buildings would have to begin in September.
City Manager Buford Watson said that as landlord of the center, the city would be responsible for extending water and sewer lines to the site and for parking and traffic-way changes. He suggested a ceiling of $3.5 million for city expenditures on the project.
The commission will consider the lease for the property at the July 5 City Commission meeting. The final site plan will be submitted to the
commission at the end of July.
Randol said the first level of the center would open onto a landscaped walkway by the river.
If the plan is accepted, Watson said, the city will build a parking lot with 675 spaces north of Sixth Street between Connecticut and New Hampshire streets. One or two bridges over the railroad tracks would provide shoppers an entrance to the center on the third level.
Watson said the traffic pattern in the area would be reconsidered, but any changes in the intersection at Sixth and New Hampshire streets would have to be approved by the state highway department. Any changes at the riverfront need to be approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Old frat house victim of two fires
By a Kansan reporter
According to the fire report, the department responded to a call at 10:57 a.m. and extinguished fires on the first-floor stairway and the roof. They were called again at 4:54 p.m. to put out burning material
The Lawrence Fire Department put out two fires Sunday at the former Theta Chi fraternity house at Ninth and Emery streets. The house, built in 1959, has been unoccupied since 1972, and its condition has deteriorated.
found in the area of the previous fire.
and in the area of the previous fire.
Lawrence firefighter Bob Coleman said that both fires were "suspicious" and could only have been the result of an arson. The department found no evidence that could identify the arsonist. However, Coleman said the department would not start an investigation. The department's main concern was to get the house torn down, he said.
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