BY CARRIE RENGERS crengers@wichitaeagle.com November 21, 2018 05:00 AM Greg Paul has a plan to make sure his already more than half-century-old Ace Hardware will be around “for a long, long time for Wichita.” By spring, the store will be open in new, expanded space that Paul
BY CARRIE RENGERS crengers@wichitaeagle.com November 19, 2018 05:00 AM UPDATED — On Sunday, with less than 16 hours before the Nifty Nut House opened in its new, expanded space, Head Nut Steve Jahn was slightly less jolly than Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. “All the elves are driving me
BY CARRIE RENGERS rengers@wichitaeagle.com November 16, 2018 02:42 PM Former Spice Merchant head roaster Colby Short and his soon-to-be stepfather-in-law, Jason Gardner, opened the retail side of their new Local Roasters coffee business on Friday. There’s no sign yet, though, so for now they’re going to have to tell people they’re under the big
BY CARRIE RENGERS crengers@wichitaeagle.com November 16, 2018 05:00 AM After “lots of requests to come to Derby,” Dan Day and his father, Doug, will open a Dunkin’ there in March. “This should be the first Next Generation Dunkin . . . in Kansas,” Dan Day says. The restaurant will
BY CARRIE RENGERS crengers@wichitaeagle.com November 14, 2018 05:00 AM UPDATED — Even before Occidental Management’s renovation of Union Station is complete, the company is taking on another nearby building to refurbish and expand. “This particular building was the icehouse building,” Occidental chairman and CEO Gary Oborny says of the 1901
BY CARRIE RENGERS crengers@wichitaeagle.com November 14, 2018 02:23 PM Half Price Books has been buying books and other items from the public since early October, but now the new store at Eastgate Plaza at Kellogg and Rock Road is opening so customers can start buying, too. The first 100
