A new spot to gather with family to enjoy food trucks and yard games may soon occupy the empty used car lot on Main and 10th Street.
Various new business ventures are underway in town, while other buildings are up for sale. Here’s the scoop on what’s new.
Aaron Thakker is planning to bring a couple of new ventures to Eudora, including the food trucks and games.
Thakker now owns the former used car lot across from the Public Safety building and plans to bring a different food truck to the area each weekend. Games like mini-golf will also be added, he said. He hopes to get that project moving in 2026, he said.
Thakker also owns 800 Main St., the former location of 800 Main Salon. He plans on possibly restoring it back to a salon in the future, but has a plumbing shop on the far right side now, he said. He also plans on putting some offices in the building. Plans for the space aren’t for sure, but he will likely rent out salon space, he said.
Thakker, who formerly owned The Cottage, an Airbnb in town, recently sold it to the Stadalmans.
New owners Kyle and Bethany Stadalman plan to keep The Cottage as what it has grown to be today. They had already been connected to the property since it first opened because they have a business that focuses on cleaning Airbnb properties in Eudora and Lawrence. When the possibility of buying it was presented to them, they knew they wanted to jump on it, Bethany Stadalman said.
They believe in what the property brings to Eudora — by giving people from out of town a getaway that also helps support other local businesses, she said.
The Cottage will stay mostly the same, but they have been working on updating the property since April. There is a new 17-foot swim spa/hot tub with more amenities. There is also a new HVAC system, dehumidifier, half-bath, washer and dryer, and updated outdoor area, she said.
They plan on also adding a new resource guide with information about businesses in town for people to utilize while staying at the rental.
GW Weld and Dustin Baker’s project at 10th and Peach is preparing to break ground this fall. The project will have two apartment complexes – one market rate and another affordable housing, known as Paschal’s Landing and 10 Union Lofts, respectively.
Weld said the project would take about 15 to 18 months with the lofts being completed about six months after Paschal’s Landing.
Paschal’s Landing will have 36 two- and three-bedroom units and 10 Union Lofts will have 96 one-, two- and three-bedroom options.
Weld has also been working on renovating the old Methodist church into an event venue. He is working on finalizing construction documents with hope to start construction late summer. Construction will take about a year, he said.
Weld has also expanded development to De Soto. He is working on rezoning some land at K-10 and Evening Star Road for commercial development. Weld said the final users are to be determined.
As for Nottingham Center, the city is talking to a few developers who are in different stages of review but could result in offers either for individual lots or for the remaining parcels, Interim City Manager Zack Daniel said. The city is also considering uses for the large anchor lot on the south end. The city has no updates on details that are firm enough to share publicly, he said.
Since the area is part of a tax increment financing district, the city is also working with its financial advisers at Baker Tilly to review revenue generation from the area, Daniel said. The city is hitting the revenue needed to pay off the debt on schedule, but likely generating excess revenue so the city has to determine how to use the money since it must be used within the district. They are working to determine how much excess revenue is being produced and what the strategies to use that revenue are, he said.
Daniel said he would likely have more to share on the revenue generation in the next few weeks.
A few downtown buildings are for sale, including the 715 Main St. building that houses JS Wellness. The Zillow listing can be found here.
Julie Skinner with JS Wellness said she is in a year’s lease for the space in 715 and hopes to stay after that ends if the new owners would continue to let her lease long term.
The Lodge at 726 Main is now under contract after being put on the market earlier this year. The new owners will close the first week of October, Realtor Teresa Seiwald said. Details on who is buying it and their plans for it are not yet being released.
The old quilt store at 736 Main St. is also for sale, and the library board is continuing to negotiate purchase of the building.
Library Board President Kenny Massey said discussions are “still in a holding pattern.”
