At LCW, we work together with our community to create a Lawrence that is a vibrant and safe city of promise and opportunity – a great place to live, learn, work and play. We invest in the People of our city, as they are our greatest resource: an aspiring, talented, hard-working immigrant community that is the source of our strength and potential.  We invest in the Place because place matters; all residents deserve to grow in vital neighborhoods marked by a healthy mix of housing options, lively commercial development, modern infrastructure, and attractive open spaces.  And we invest in the Systems that shape our city so that a variety of responsive, collaborative, and civic-minded companies and organizations call Lawrence home, and offer good-paying jobs and educational opportunities for residents. When we work together to make self-development and community development reciprocal and intertwined, we are co-creating the city of our most powerful dreams.

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