photo by: Contributed photo: Proxi Lawrence
Proxi, 1401 W. 23rd Street, has 120 apartments that have a total of 330 bedrooms. The student housing project also has about 8,000 square feet of retail space on its ground floor.
My college apartment complex was more likely to have a phone booth than a podcasting booth. In other words, podcasting wasn’t a thing, but now it is becoming the type of amenity that’s showing up in new upscale student apartment complexes in Lawrence.
“People are finding it really fun,” said Rita D’Agostino, director of real estate development for the parent company behind Proxi Lawrence, the apartment/retail project near 23rd Street and Naismith Drive.