A facelift in the works for Buckley garage's drab exterior

by Keith Eddings, Eagle Tribune

The cold and uninviting gray box of a building that even its owner – the city of Lawrence – admits is one of downtown's ugliest will be covered in a colorful and uplifting mural affirming the city's immigrant history under a $100,000 project the city and several co-sponsors announced Wednesday.

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The new face of the Buckley parking garage and bus depot on Common Street will be the first off the ground among the dozens of urban renewal projects proposed in a plan written by the city's Redevelopment Authority and endorsed by the City Council that are intended to steer the next wave of development in the city.

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