East-side Andy’s Frozen Custard to open in April

At long last, Andy’s Frozen Custard franchisee Brian Cates is going to open an east-side Andy’s. “That was really kind of our strategy from the start,” Cates says of opening east before west. Instead, he opened an Andy’s at NewMarket Square at 21st and Maize Road in March 2017. An east-side property he planned didn&rsq… Read Article

18 Commercial Real Estate Trends To Dominate In 2019

18 Commercial Real Estate Trends To Dominate In 2019 National December 11, 2018 Champaign Williams, National Editor1. Opportunity Zones Craze To Persist As investors await finalized guidance from the Department of the Treasury and the IRS regarding the Opportunity Zone program, the hunt is on for assets and investment opportunities in these designated areas that present the s… Read Article

You’ve heard of a taqueria. Now Wichita is getting a ‘nachoria’

This is nacho average restaurant idea. In about a week, a new eatery will open inside Wave, an entertainment and concert venue that opened in October at 650 E. Second, at the corner of Second and St. Francis. Its focus will be big, beautiful plates of nachos, so the owners have given it a name that’s extra fun to say: Adios Nachoria. It will open on Dec. … Read Article

Electric Pizzeria to open first Wichita restaurant

For the second time this year, Joe and Jackie Fowler are preparing to open an Electric Pizzeria. The two opened their first one in Derby in January. “If everything goes the way we want it to go, we want to end up (with) about five or six locations across Wichita,” Joe Fowler says. Their second will open in the former Quiznos spa… Read Article

The Starlite Drive-In is saved: Anonymous Wichitan Purchases Theater

A night at the Starlite Drive-In Wichita’s last remaining drive-in is getting a second life. The Starlite Drive-In, which closed in October, has been purchased by a local who intends to keep it open as a drive-in, announced Landmark Commercial Real Estate, a Wichita-based group that brokered the deal. The group announced the deal at a news conference at … Read Article

Tousled owner Kalene Smith opens the Hue downtown

Tousled owner Kalene Smith has branched out with another salon, but this time it’s more than a blow-dry bar. The Hue is a full-service salon in the Petroleum Building on Broadway just south of Douglas. It’s where another salon was going to open and didn’t. “The only thing I really needed to do was outfit it with a team and produ… Read Article

Urban Interiors to expand concept and space with corner spot at Eaton Place

Not quite a year after bringing her “sexy city cowgirl” style to downtown Wichita, Cheris Coggins is expanding her Urban Interiors at Eaton Place. The store currently is in 2,200 square feet at the building, and in March it’s going to move several doors down to the corner of Douglas and St. Francis. “Somethi… Read Article

McCownGordon Construction selects former Associated space for new Old Town office

One business’ decision to not take the former Associated office in Old Town freed the more than 3,200-square-foot space for McCownGordon Construction, a Kansas City, Mo.-based construction firm that has been working in the market several years and now wants to establish an office here. “We were really excited to hear it… Read Article

Donut Whole Plus to open in former east-side Hurts Donut space

Half a year after taking over the Donut Whole, partner Tariq Azmi is opening a second one. Donut Whole Plus is going to open in the former Hurts Donut space at 3750 N. Woodlawn near 37th and Woodlawn. “The idea was essentially to bring the Donut Whole more to the northeast side of the community — the Donut Whole uniqu… Read Article