Delaware Street Commons
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Cohousing Creates Community:
"Do you long for a community where you can enjoy a decreased cost of living along with an increased standard of living? Consider creating a cohousing community." Mother Earth News, 2012-08-04Garden Revolution on Delaware Street: Community has three of 21 gardens on upcoming tour
"On Saturday’s Lawrence Food Garden Tour, you’ll find three of the 21 featured gardens clustered at Delaware Street Commons. " wellcommons.com, 2012-05-30Shared experience: : Co-housing community taking off in Lawrence
"Delaware Street Commons opened in 2007 with just a few families. Now there are 19, and interest is growing. " Lawrence Journal-World, 2009-09-07Let's Play: Where's the entrance?
"And then it became a game, a variation of "Where's Waldo" that I call "Where's the Entrance." I half expect to one day find a house with no front door at all." Lawrence Journal-World, 2007-11-26Photo: Lawrence Board of Realtors Architectural Enhancement Award
"Distlehorst and Penner received the architectural enhancement award on behalf of Delaware Street Commons. The Lawrence Board of Realtors presented the 15th annual awards Sept. 18." Lawrence Journal-World, 2007-10-13Co-housing (radio audio stream)
"Today [host] Steve Kraske discusses co-housing with architect Kirk Gastinger and Delaware Street Commons member [Liz], as well as Diane Kallas, a member of one of the oldest co-housing communities in the United States, Muir Commons in Davis, California." Up to Date, KCUR-FM, 89.3, 2007-06-14Delaware Commons hosting potluck
"Delaware Street Commons, a co-housing complex in the 1200 block of Delaware Street, will host a "Common House Warming" event Saturday in the complex's common house." Lawrence Journal-World, 2007-06-01[Cohousing] opens
"The Delaware Street Commons is the first [cohousing] community in the Midwest. A co-operative housing model is a way people choose to live together and make a living environment where everyone has equal input." KUJH-TV News, 2007-05-09Co-housing community kicks off: Delaware St. Commons in Parade of Homes
"The planned community is no longer just a plan. After nearly a decade of groundwork and about 10 months of construction, the members of Delaware Street Commons, a new cohousing community in East Lawrence, are ready to show off their homes to the public." Lawrence Journal-World, 2007-04-27[6News video]: Cohousing community ready to open its doors
"Forty-five new homes will go on display this weekend and next on the Lawrence Homebuilders Association's Parade of Homes. But one stop on the tour stands out." 6News Lawrence, 2007-04-27Chamber schedules ribbon-cutting events
"The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce announces ribbon-cutting events to be conducted in May [...] Delaware Street Commons, 4:30 p.m. May 8, 1208 Del." Lawrence Journal-World, 2007-04-22Housing costs spur creative arrangements: Young adults try to make most of affordable accommodations
"A similar project in Lawrence, Kan. - the Delaware Commons - has been in the planning stages for years, and construction is getting under way this summer." Lawrence Journal-World, 2006-08-15Cohousing in Kansas: Ground broken at 12th and Delaware on first-of-a-kind project in state
"The project is the first cohousing development in Kansas, but the idea has become fairly common in other areas, including California, Colorado and parts of the Northeast and Northwest. According to the Cohousing Association of the United States, 165 cohousing developments are either open or under development in the country." Lawrence Journal-World, 2004-09-12Cohousing members sell land, downsize project: Delaware Street Commons decides on smaller community
"Now, instead of having nearly 30 homes in the community, the organization is looking at building about 24." Lawrence Journal-World, 2003-05-18Delaware Commons neighborhood residents seek community feeling for new homes
" "It's recreating the street corner," [Gastinger] said. "That casual interaction that's not planned is so vacant in our lives. You can get it on the college campus or on the street corner on Mass., but I would dare anyone to think that there are probably any other spaces like that in the city, and that's very valuable. Yet, there are no housing communities that are being built that support that idea except in cohousing." " Lawrence Journal-World, 2002-05-06Cohousing project built from scratch: Delaware Commons neighborhood residents seek community feeling for new homes
"Members of Delaware Street Commons already have spent hours together planning their community through a series of decisions reached by consensus." Lawrence Journal-World, 2002-05-06Plans come together for cohousing project
"In January, the Lawrence City Commission approved rezoning the land at 1208 Del. from single-family residence to planned residential." Lawrence Journal-World, 2001-04-06Housing development uncommon
"A proposed housing development in East Lawrence that got the green light from city officials last week will be anything but common when it is completed." Topeka Capital-Journal, 2001-01-14Housing effort expands: Cohousing movement files for rezoning
"A year after their first meeting, supporters of a housing concept termed "cohousing" appear to be building steam in their effort to create an old-fashioned neighborhood in Lawrence." Lawrence Journal-World, 2000-11-02Cohousing group unveils land: Planned development will focus on community, neighborhood
"Nearly 200 people enjoyed popcorn and balloon animals Sunday afternoon while examining the Delaware Street property that will become a new kind of community in East Lawrence." Lawrence Journal-World, 2000-09-18Cohousing meeting puts focus on people
"Nearly 50 people attended a meeting Thursday night to learn about building an old-fashioned community in Lawrence. Four households currently make up the group working to found a cohousing community based around a common building, a pedestrian thoroughfare and neighborly togetherness." Lawrence Journal-World, 2000-07-07HOUSING IDEA PROMISES SENSE OF COMMUNITY
"... will have a meeting of their own at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, [November 9, 1999] inviting anyone interested to Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass." Lawrence Journal-World, 1999-11-07