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Winter break delays business profits
By Steve Vockrodt
svockrodt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
While students stayed at home and, relaxed for an extra week on the extended winter break, some Lawrence businesses could hardly wait for their return.
This year's spring semester starts a week later than the University's typical start date, which precedes Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The delayed start left business owners like The Wheel's Rob Farha with little to do until the students came back.
"It definitely affects us, we close when students are gone," Farha said.
Farha said he opened The Wheel, 507 W.14th St., for home basketball games during the break, but otherwise it remained closed. Last weekend, Farha experimented with opening Thursday through Saturday, but
did not get much volume.
In addition to the scarcity of customers, Farha said he found it difficult to schedule employees for evenings The Wheel was operating.
Other businesses also noticed the effect of students staying out of town. Abe and Jake's Landing, at 8 E. Sixth St., experienced slower business.
"It's a week of less traffic and in the service industry, you can tell," general manager Mike Logan said.
Logan said he used the downtime to work on building upkeep and prepare for the students' return. Abe and Jake's also booked private parties during the extended break to help offset the slow business. The bar did not change its hours of operation.
Logan said he saw steady increases in volume as the semester starting date approached.
were getting restless and getting back to town."
"Last weekend was pretty good," Logan said. "Students
Local coffee shops did not change business hours, but noticed fewer students made for slower business. Molly Murphy, employee at Henry's, 11 E. Eight St., said the daytime was unaffected, but evenings were less crowded.
"We're more of a summertime bar anyway." Sullivan said.
"It doesn't affect my shift as much," Murphy said, "but it affects the evening shift more, after four or five when more students come in."
Some locations reported no noticeable effect on their business. Matt Sullivan, an employee at Replay Lounge on 946 Massachusetts St., said customer volume remained steady for the most part during break.
Replay Lounge also relies on a niche of customers for its business, said Sullivan.
Most locations that rely heavily on students said the changing school calendar makes business more complicated. In the past few years, the University has added a fall break, a Wednesday off before Thanksgiving and now a longer holiday break.
"I'm not a fan of fall break, it causes me to lose a weekend and now this week causes me to lose another weekend," Farha said.
The extended school break comes as part of a 12-year calendar cycle approved by the Board of Regents. The variance of holidays like Martin Luther King Jr. Day as well as the relationship between Memorial Day and graduation day force an extra week. This year, which is a leap year, also plays a part, according to Marjorie Swann, calendar committee member.
— Edited by Guillaume Doane
MRC: Need outweighs costs
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Bell became the head of the task force this year and has been compiling the group's ideas for the time when she could hand them over to a building committee. She initially expected the building committee to begin work in September. She said she thought it would be easier to raise the remaining funds for the project now, that a building committee had been formed.
"With the bureaucracy of a University it takes a long time for a building to be approved," Bell said. "I think the catalyst was an increase in cooperation between students, administrators and Endowment."
Santos Nunez, MRC program director and a member of the building committee, said the need for a new, larger center was becoming more critical every semester. Nunez has seen a steady increase in program participation amongst all students, not only minorities, and that the current center could
not meet students' needs.
"A few times we've had programs where we had to turn people away because we didn't have enough chairs or even floor space," Nunez said.
Aside from more space, Nufez said the new center was needed to provide a more convenient location and accessibility for people with limited mobility. She also hoped it would include some amenities the current center lacked, like central heating and air conditioning and a classroom wired to the Internet.
Johnson said the committee would create a plan for a state-of-the-art facility by March 1. But he won't know when the MRC will physically begin to take shape until his committee can meet and decide.
"We'd love to be breaking ground before the end of the semester, but we still don't know whether that will be possible," Johnson said.
BARS: Bars say they have a role downtown
—Edited by Ashley Arnold
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The BrewHawk met its first probationary guideline, and Frank Tarantino, the business owner, said he felt that the commissioners were treating his establishment and other alcohol vendors unfairly.
"Four of the five councilmen have have an anti-business, utopian vision of downtown Lawrence that would probably destroy Lawrence," Tarantino said. "They want the mom and pop businesses, and they don't understand that you need a nice mix like this."
Shane Norris, Leavenworth senior, said he would be very upset if BrewHawk lost its liquor license. Norris began visiting the BrewHawk when it first opened in September 2003 and visits four times a week.
"It's one of the most laid-back places you can walk into," Norris said. "Some other bars are snooty, some of the upstairs places."
It is also safer to have all bars in a concentrated area, Norris said.
driving around town getting out-of-their-mind drunk," Norris said.
"It's better than having people
But Schauner worries that having so many drinking establishments downtown will drive away retail businesses. Alcohol venders drive up property values, making it hard for retail businesses to move in, Schauner said. If this cycle continues, it could change the face of downtown.
Adam Smith, St. Louis junior, sips a beer while concentrating on a video game at the BrewHawk on Wednesday, Jan. 21. The BrewHawk is on a three-month probation period installed by the Lawrence City Commission.
"The incoming freshman class of 2010 will want to see a downtown Lawrence that looks like it does today, with GAP, Liberty Hall, Pizza Hut . . . I think we owe it to the class of 2010 to keep that balance and not let it get out of whack." Schauer said.
Downtown businesses are divided on the issue.
Nolan Washatka, assistant general manager at Teller's, 746 Massachusetts St., said that bars were not harming retail business.
"A lot of window shopping wouldn't happen without the evening entertainment," Washatka said. "There's room for both businesses because it keeps downtown open from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. instead of from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m."
Jenni Dwyer, manager of Francis Sporting Goods, 731 Massachusetts St., would rather see a bar move in next door than a retail store, especially a competitor in sporting goods, she said. Francis Sporting Goods is located next to BrewHawk and the former building that housed The Library, a bar. Dwyer said that it was better to have any kind of business next door than to have a vacant building.
"When you've got drunken
Still, Dwyer said Brown Bear Brewing Company, 729 Massachusetts St., seemed to create problems when it was on the other side of her building, Brown Bear opened in 1995 and changed its name to The Library in January of 2003. On KU's Fall Stop Day in 2003, some patrons of Brown Bear removed a stairway from the back of the building, she said. In February of 2003 someone was thrown through a window of Brown Bear.
Carol Buhler-Francis, the owner of the building which houses Brown Bear and Francis Sporting Goods, said that she would never again allow a bar or restaurant to rent out her property.
people walking up and down the street, urinating and breaking windows, it's not encouraging for people to come downtown,"
Bubler-Francis said.
The city commissioners planned a February study session to reassess the 1994 ordinance.
No further action on the matter will be taken until that time.
Edited by Danielle Hillix
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