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A taste for tradition Eldridge plans to expand hotel ——
Proposal would add 38 rooms, banquet hall By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
One of Lawrence’s more historic businesses has plans for a large, modern expansion. The ownership group of the Eldridge Hotel has filed plans at City Hall for a sixstory, 38-room expansion of the hotel, which was famously burned by William Quantrill during the Civil War. The expansion would occur in the vacant lot directly south of the hotel at Seventh and Massachusetts streets. Work could begin in the next several months, if the project wins the necessary approvals from City Hall, said Paul Werner, the Lawrence-based architect designing the project. Werner said the expansion will almost double the number of rooms in the hotel, which currently stands at 48. Unlike the current rooms, which are all suites, most of the new space will be used for more traditional double queen-bed hotel rooms. Werner said the hotel’s ownership group
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LAWRENCE RESIDENT ROSA SALAZAR-PETERSON has penned a cookbook for traditional Mexican cuisine, specifically dishes from the region of Zacatecas, where she was born.
Family preserves Mexican ranch recipes in book By Stephen Montemayor smontemayor@ljworld.com
The two parents had to be separated, sent to opposite rooms for questioning as part of a classic interrogation technique devised by their son-in-law. At issue: a regional Mexican recipe for sprouted corn beer. A. Townsend Peterson,
a Kansas University professor who goes by Town, helped quiz the parents of his wife, Rosa Salazar-Peterson, hoping to cobble together an old family recipe native to Rosa’s Mexican birthplace. The result, Town recalled, produced a batch not unlike a seasonal Free State brew: light, not very fizzy and low in alcohol. Please see MEXICAN, page 5A
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Architecture students to help city envision a ‘better block’ By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce
Imagine bike lanes separated from traffic by natural barriers, cafe seating on the street where parking spots
usually are, artists and vendors selling their wares outdoors — all in a residential neighborhood. Kansas University architecture students want to help Lawrence residents en-
ty from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday on Ninth Street between Connecticut and New Jersey streets. The “better block” concept, started by Dallas urbanist Jason Roberts, uses a
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vision what a “better block” such as this one might look like. As part of Final Fridays, the students will introduce their project, Better Block Lawrence, to the communi-
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“grass-roots, urban-design approach to community engagement,” said Matt Kleinmann, an adjunct professor of architecture at KU whose
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