McCurdy auctioning four visible properties in, around Wichita

McCurdy auctioning four visible properties in, around WichitaWichita Business Journal by John Stearns, ReporterDate: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 2:00pm CDTMcCurdy Auction next week will hold three absolute auctions on high-visibility properties in around the Wichita metropolitan area.The properties are at Pawnee and Webb Road, off U.S. 54 between Andover and Augusta, and near 21st … Read Article

A-OK Pawn Shops owner Bruce Harris to start Better Living lease-to-own business

A-OK Pawn Shops owner Bruce Harris to start Better Living lease-to-own businessPublished in The Wichita EagleWritten by Carrie Rengers WICHITA — A-OK Pawn Shops owner Bruce Harris is starting a new lease-to-own furniture business that he hopes will become a chain of stores.“It’s a brand-new concept we’re comi… Read Article

Art & Frame to move from NewMarket Square to 13th and Maize Road area

Art & Frame to move from NewMarket Square to 13th and Maize Road areaPublished in The Wichita EagleWritten by Carrie Rengers WICHITA — Jack Wilson and his Art & Frame shop was one of the first businesses in NewMarket Square a decade ago, and he says he’s now reluctant to leave.Due to another deal, though – mo… Read Article

InMotion Spine-Muscle-Joint Clinic to open at Hampton Lakes

InMotion Spine – Muscle – Joint Clinic to open at Hampton Lakes Published in The Wichita EagleWritten by Carrie Rengers WICHITA — New chiropractors Meryl Miller and Jared Shoemaker are opening their first practice in Hampton Lakes at 37th and Maize this summer.“We just decided we wanted to stay in Kansas,” s… Read Article

Bann Thai Restaurant to open in former Siam Cuisine space

Bann Thai Restaurant to open in former Siam Cuisine spacePublished in the Wichita Eagle Written by Carrie Rengers  A new restaurant is going in the former Siam Cuisinespace near 21st and Woodlawn.Tui Jackson hopes to open Bann Thai Restaurant at 6249 East 21st Street North by April 3.“I think it will be OK,” Jackson says of opening … Read Article

Furnish My Nest coming at 21st and Rock

Furnish My Nest coming at 21st and RockPublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie Rengers A new home furnishings store with a contemporary flair is coming to the Shops at Tallgrass near 21st and Rock Road.Furnish My Nest is taking the 2,240 square feet Cox Communications Kansas/Arkansasused to be in before moving across the parking lot.Chance Shipman and Josh Rulan… Read Article

Academy Sports & Outdoors helps fill out center near 29th and Maize

Academy Sports & Outdoors helps fill out center near 29th and MaizeTwo retail sites remain in Central Park Place developmentFrom The Wichita Business Journal by John Stearns, ReporterDate: Friday, March 23, 2012 A commercial development in northwest Wichita will take a major step toward completion with last week’s announcement that Academy Sports &… Read Article

Laham: Opening of Cabelas in Wichita is a game-changer

Laham: Opening of Cabela’s in Wichita is a game-changerBy John StearnsIn the Wichita Business Journal  Thursday, March 15, 2012 The turnout for Cabela’s grand opening in Wichita on Wednesday could have filled 10,500-seat Koch Arena — and then some.In fact, by some estimates, it could have filled most of 15,000-seat Intrust Bank Ar… Read Article

City's retail market 'ready to take off,' brokers say

City’s retail market ‘ready to take off,’ brokers sayPublished in the Wichita EagleBy Carrie RengersAfter a particularly lean three years, Wichita finally saw significant retail activity in 2011. Commercial brokers say that gives them a lot to build on in 2012.Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/02/24/2224654/retail-market-ready-to-take-off.html#storylink=misear… Read Article

Plexus Inc. opens and leases space near Intrust Bank Arena

Plexus Inc. opens and leases space near Intrust Bank ArenaPublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie RengersWICHITA — Business partners Shawn Spaeny and Nick Holt have started Plexus Inc. to sell high-definition surveillance cameras.“High-quality surveillance is what we do,” Spaeny says.The two have been in the business previously but… Read Article

Planet Fitness signs two new deals

Planet Fitness signs two new dealsPublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie RengersWICHITA — There are deals for two new Wichita Planet Fitness sites, though the chain still isn’t talking about its plans here.Have You Heard? previously reported that the company is working on locations in the former Star Lumber space at Normandie Center at Central and W… Read Article

Council votes to set up STAR bond district for fieldhouse project in northeast Wichita

Council votes to set up STAR bond district for fieldhouse project in northeast WichitaPublished in The Wichita EagleBy Bill WilsonA multi-use destination entertainment STAR bond project at K-96 and Greenwich Road cleared its first major governmental hurdle Tuesday.Wichita City Council members voted unanimously to establish a 400-acre STAR bond distri… Read Article

Dragon Estate investors buy floors in Sutton Place and Broadway Plaza and plan more purchases downtown

Dragon Estate investors buy floors in Sutton Place and Broadway Plaza and plan more purchases downtownPublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie Rengers WICHITA — What started as a real estate search for a law office has ledAbdul Arif to become a new investor in downtown along with several of his friends and business asso… Read Article

A Box 4 U expands into finishing work for its blast-resistant modules

A Box 4 U expands into finishing work for its blast-resistant modulesPublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie RengersWICHITA — Wichita-based A Box 4 U is expanding its blast-resistant module business.Since the mid-1990s, Jeff Lange’s company has sold and leased blast-resistant modules for petroleum refineries and chemical plants.“… Read Article

RBP Auto to open on Southwest Boulevard

RBP Auto to open on Southwest BoulevardPublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie Rengers WICHITA — Ryan Peavey has been wanting to get into the car sales business, but to get his dealer’s license, he says first he needed a building.So he’s signed a lease for 1,100 square feet at 1707 1/2 Southwest Blvd.“It’s pretty little,” Peavey says.It’s t… Read Article

Golden Bay to open in former Mama-Sans Japanese Steakhouse space

Golden Bay to open in former Mama-Sans Japanese Steakhouse spacePublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie RengersWICHITA — Now, for the final restaurant report of the day …Brian and Jing Kitchens are opening Golden Bay in the former Mama-Sans Japanese Restaurant space near 13th and West.“She’s been in the industry … Read Article

FDA to move to new Wichita office

FDA to move to new Wichita officePublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie RengersUPDATED — The Food and Drug Administration is moving to a new Wichita office.The FDA’s lease is up at 1861 N. Rock Road, so it’s moving to 1,700 square feet at 8440 E. 29th St.Scott Harper of Landmark Commercial Real Estate handled the deal.The Wichita FDA office, which is one of s… Read Article

Empire Barber Salon to move to Oxford Square near 21st and Woodlawn

Empire Barber Salon to move to Oxford Square near 21st and WoodlawnPublished in The Wichita EagleBy Carrie RengersWICHITA — Tyron Bowen is returning to Oxford Square near 21st and Woodlawn to do hair, but this time he’ll own the barber shop and salon instead of working for someone else.Bowen is moving his Empire Barber Salon fr… Read Article

SpringClean Laundry owner to open what he thinks will be the third-largest Laundromat in the country

SpringClean Laundry owner to open what he thinks will be the third-largest Laundromat in the countryPublished in the Wichita Eagle 2/2/2012By Carrie RengersWICHITA — Perry Duncan is, perhaps arguably, the Laundry King of Kansas.He’s owned many himself, built plenty of them for others and now is working on what he s… Read Article

Capital Express Inc. opens 8,000-square-foot Wichita warehouse

Capital Express Inc. opens 8,000-square-foot Wichita warehouse  WICHITA — Capital Express Inc., an Omaha-based courier and logistics company, is now operating in Wichita.“We have a large customer who asked us to come into this market,” says president Jack Johnson.Johnson says he can’t say who the customer is.The 25-year-old company … Read Article