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State seeks proposals for resort at Clinton
Menards moving forward
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Destination center would include hotel, conference space and water sports area to attract visitors By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
The idea of a destination-style resort at Clinton Lake — an old proposal that resurfaced late last year — is becoming more serious. Officials with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism are seeking proposals, due next month, to develop a 175room hotel with a conference center and various restaurant and recreational faI’m pretty cilities somewhere inside Clinton Lake optimistic we’re State Park. going to be able to “I have visited with four develop- do it out there this ers who all seem time.” pretty interested in it,” Robin Jennison, — Robin Jennison, the state’s the state’s wildlife wildlife and parks secretary and parks secretary, said Tuesday. “I’m pretty optimistic we’re going to be able to do it out there this time.” Jennison, who had confirmed to the Journal-World in September that he was pursing a resort concept for the lake, said he is negotiating at least a 50-year lease with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates the lake and owns the property around it. The resort would be run by a private development company, but the state would be in a position to receive a portion of the revenues from the facility, Jennison said. HVS Consulting and Valuation Services, a national hotel industry consulting firm,
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A TRUCK TURNS SOUTH ON OUSDAHL ROAD to access 31st Street from the Home Depot parking lot, seen in background at right. A nearly 190,000-square-foot Menards store is proposed for the former site of Gaslight Mobile Home Village, which is directly east of Home Depot. The western edge of the Menards property would be approximately where the cement barriers are, with the store located at right, to the north, in this photograph.
Home improvement store wins city approval By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
The stage is set for a home improvement center battle in Lawrence. A Menards home improvement center won the necessary city land use approvals Tuesday evening for a nearly 190,000-squarefoot store and outdoor lumber yard just east of the
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Home Depot at 31st and I have to Iowa streets. “This looks like a very be congood project to me, and I cerned with think it is a development that the city can support,” the entire City Commissioner Mike city.” Amyx said. The approvals put the — Bob Schumm, who voted against store on track to begin con- the store because of concerns struction in 2014 and per- of residents’ income not growing haps open by the spring of enough to support more retail
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I think this is the time to allow this type of development to occur.” — Terry Riordan, who approved because of the improving economy
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Kansas Board of Regents to vote on tuition increases today By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — Students attending Kansas University, and other state public universities, will find out how much they will have to pay after the Kansas Board of Regents votes today on tuition and fee proposals. KU officials are seeking a 4.4 percent increase in tuition and fees at the Lawrence campus, and 7.6 percent at KU
Medical Center for Kansas residents. Nonresident students will see a 4.7 percent increase in Lawrence and a 6 percent increase at KANSAS KUMC. UNIVERSITY Because KU operates a tuition compact, where entering freshmen have the same tuition rate for four years, fully 65 percent of returning KU undergraduates
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will have no tuition increase. And KU officials have said the proposed increases would have been lower if legislators hadn’t cut higher education in the recently concluded legislative session. Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law those cuts to higher education that total $8.2 million to the KU Medical Center over two years and $5.3 million to the Lawrence campus. “Cuts of this magnitude cannot be
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offset by tuition increases alone; however, increased tuition has to be part of the solution,” KU officials wrote in their tuition proposal to the regents. Earlier this month, regents members expressed frustration with the Legislature over the cuts. The proposed tuition increases will generate $7.8 million for the Lawrence campus.
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