New Projects
While the City of Lawrence faces challenges like affordable housing, economic hardship, and systemic racism, Lawrence CommunityWorks (LCW) continues our long-standing commitment to creating vibrant neighborhoods and empowered residents.
Our approach to real estate development reflects a response to the highest needs of residents and demonstrates our ability to make transformative changes in the community, from the ground up.
By 2030, we want Lawrence to be widely known as a vibrant and safe city of promise and opportunity: a great place to live, learn, work and play.
Our team is working to unlock the most difficult-to-develop properties, ones that are burdened with tax, legal and contamination issues, and turn them into high-quality and productive spaces. The results are visible symbols of renewal that contribute to the health and financial stability of our neighbors. These projects also generate substantial tax revenue for the city and often attract other private market investment in the area.
LCW has 20 years of experience redeveloping the eastern end of Lawrence’s historic Mill District to create a more vibrant and equitable neighborhood. DyeWorks is a capstone project that looks beyond housing to create a neighborhood center of essential services. To make physical and economic well-being more accessible to residents, DyeWorks is designed to address upstream contributors to systemic racism and poverty.
With pre-development planning complete and construction now underway, the DyeWorks project is bringing new life to a long-vacant 35,000-square-foot building—transforming it into a vibrant community destination that will house a full-service Latinx-owned grocery store, health center, gathering spaces, Wi-Fi hub, and the new home of our Movement City youth program. This bold vision is becoming reality—creating pathways to healthier lives, meaningful jobs, and a stronger, more connected Lawrence. With only $250,000 left to raise to fully furnish Movement City’s new home, your support will help open doors for young people to learn, lead, and create lasting change in our community.
