Great American Bank to Merge with The University National Bank of Lawrence apnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from apnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Oldfather Studios, at 1621 W. Ninth St., is pictured on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2010.
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If a film were made about my days living in a college apartment, it would have been a horror flick. A completely innocent protagonist (me, of course) caught between two monsters an angry pile of dirty dishes in half the rooms and a stinking pile of laundry in the other half. (Remember, I’m innocent, though.) I don’t know that any films are going to be made, but plans have been filed for new apartments to be constructed on the site of a longtime film studio.
Dayton metro places fifth in Site Selection Magazine's Governor's Cup rankings bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Downtown Lawrence is pictured in this aerial photo from December 2017.
It is easy to predict that the economic tally for Lawrence in 2020 won’t be pretty. It also is a good bet that the final analysis will show the 2020 downturn was fueled, in part, by tough times in the city’s rental market, as the pandemic caused hundreds if not thousands of students to decide they don’t need a local apartment to attend online classes.
But a new set of federal numbers suggests both Lawrence and its rental market were suffering before the pandemic even began. New federal statistics that measure the economy of every county in the U.S. show Douglas County’s economy in 2019 shrank, and the real estate industry was a major reason why.