Revolutsia shipping-container development to expand with second phase

Architects played with tiny building blocks while designing Wichita’s most-talked-about new development. The blocks were a stand-in for the giant shipping containers actually used to construct Revolutsia, the city’s first shipping-container development. They helped again with plans for a second phase, which will start construction next week on the wes… Read Article

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

Meddys opens downtown this weekend with a bar, a big patio and food served super late

Each time he opens another Meddys, Alex Harb tries to make it better than its predecessor. His original, which opened at 7906 E. Harry in 2014, had awkward seats and paper plates. When he opened his second 21st and Greenwich in 2016, he added designer tiles and a fancy outdoor patio with a stone fire place. On Saturday, Harb will show of… Read Article

New call center to hire 30 to 50 employees initially and 100 to 125 in second year

Washington-based Receivables Performance Management signed a lease on Tuesday to open a new call center at the Ruffin Building at 9111 E. Douglas. “The whole working with people in Wichita I found to be quite refreshing,” says founder and CEO Howard George. “It’s been a very positive experience.” RPM… Read Article

Last visible sign of Coleman Co. activity in downtown Wichita is disappearing

The last visible sign of Coleman Co. activity in downtown Wichita is disappearing. The Coleman Factory Outlet and Museum at 235 N. St. Francis has closed, and the store is now empty. Its products will now be for sale at what was supposed to be a temporary outlet store in west Wichita at the former OfficeMax building at 2414 N. Mai… Read Article

Jerry’s Bar & Grill under contract; buyers want public’s help deciding what to open

BY CARRIE RENGERS crengers@wichitaeagle.com  November 28, 2018 05:00 AM   There’s a chance a longtime favorite west-Wichita haunt could reopen. Matt Hiatt and Darren Greiving have the former Jerry’s Bar & Grill under contract and expect to close on the purchase in January. They’re n… Read Article

A popular Wichita barbecue restaurant is moving today

If you’re craving Hog Wild Pit Bar-B-Q, wait until Wednesday to visit the location at 47th and Broadway. The restaurant will be closed today — Tuesday, Nov. 27 — while it moves to a new building just 100 feet away. T.D. O’Connell, who owns the Hog Wild chain, is moving the restaurant he’s run for 16 years at 662 E. 47th St. South to the form… Read Article

Independent Ace Hardware owners take ‘big step’ with new, expanded south-side store

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 and his wife, Sheila, will… Read Article

A peek into the final hectic hours before the new Nifty Nut House opens

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 nuts,” Jahn said as … Read Article

Local Roasters opens in Douglas Design District

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… Read Article

Derby asks and Dunkin’ delivers with a new restaurant

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 be in a freestanding ne… Read Article

Occidental Management to convert turn-of-the-century icehouse into offices

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… Read Article