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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
Seeing that Lawrence's population has nearly doubled since 1980, I'm not buying your whole "there's something broken with Lawrence" hypothesis. Whatever is wrong with KU's enrollment is limited to KU alone, not the city around it.
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The population grew a shit metric ton through the 90's... because so many people loved it there and stayed there after graduating KU... but still worked in KC somewhere... And a lot of people that disliked Topeka moved to West lawrence as well... The people profiting from this were the construction companies through the 90's.... that capitalized on that boom. How many of those construction companies are now out of business? My father benefited from that time, and has since had to close the doors of his local shop... The only thing that really grew in Lawrence was the Bedrooms. The city has done a piss-poor job of establishing anything of substance in businesses... Hallmark has been a stalwart, but they were there long before the population boom.