New Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage store comes full circle with its Wichita roots

WICHITA — The new Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has a Wichita connection dating to the 1800s, but even co-president Kemper Isely wasn’t fully aware of it until the Colorado chain started preparing to open here.The store opens the day before Thanksgiving in the former Borders Books space at 1715 N. Rock Road.Isely’s parents, Phil… Read Article

Athletic and Rehabilitation Center to open behind Best Buy near Kellogg and Dugan

WICHITA — Overland Park-based Athletic and Rehabilitation Center is opening its 11th center, this time in Wichita.“Frankly, we should have had it opened a year ago, but we struggled to find talent,” says Brian Stewart, chief marketing and acquisition officer.Stewart says employers, insurance companies, case management firms and physician… Read Article

West-side Chick-fil-A could open by summer

BY CARRIE RENGERS The Wichita Eagle This is the moment west-side Chick-fil-A fans have been waiting for. Yes, the restaurant is coming to your area. Landmark Commercial Real Estate's Brad Saville , who handled the deal, says the Atlanta-based chain has signed a contract for a freestanding site with a drive-through near the southwest corner of 21st Street and Maize Road. "… Read Article

Pixius deal moves forward on St. Francis

Wichita Business Journal - by Chris Moon Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 12:32pm CDT  Jay Maxwell has closed on the purchase of the former Southwest Office Supply building near Old Town. Maxwell plans to renovate and expand the 14,000-square-foot building at 301 N. St. Francis so that it can house his company, Pixius Communications. Pixius Communications Latest from The Business Journal… Read Article

Lucky No. 3

 A third Avon Beauty Center is opening in Wichita.  "It used to be just door-to-door, and Avon opened the opportunity for any representative who wanted to . . . get a license to sell in a store setting," says Christine Watkins, who is opening the new store.  Watkins, who has been selling Avon products for a decade, is opening her store early next month in front of the Walmart on the southeast corne… Read Article

Smooth Operation

A third Smoothie King is opening in Wichita, which will make it the second one on the east side.Neil Bhakta, his wife, Gillian Gorges, and a third partner, Shetal Bhakta (who is not related), are opening a 1,700-square-foot store on the northeast corner of Douglas and Rock Road. Unlike the Smoothie Kings at 3236 N. Rock Road and 8000 W. Central, this one won't have a drive-through. "On Rock, it's so hard to find,… Read Article

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage coming to the former Borders Books space

 Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage will be a full-scale grocery store with a deli WICHITA — The new Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage that’s coming to the former Borders Books space at 1715 N. Rock Road will be a complete grocery store in addition to a vitamin shop. “A great many of our customers do just that … Read Article

Stylish Wichita

 Don Piros of Landmark Commercial Real Estate has been busy doing a lot of leases lately, including a couple that will help beautify Wichita.  He and Andrea Cavgalar of Prudential Dinning-Beard Realtors handled a deal to bring Twice As Nice Barbershop to the 21st and Woodlawn area by MobileComm.   Owner Jeremie McGlory will open in early June with eight barbers, but he's looking for some… Read Article

Four local contractors to bid on Wichita Cabela’s store

Wichita Business Journal - by Chris MoonDate: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 2:50pm CDTCabela's is moving forward with its plans for an 80,000-square-foot store in northeast Wichita.The WBJ learned this week that the Nebraska-based retailer of outdoor gear has released its building plans for the store to a select list of general contractors. That happened on Tuesday.Six firms are on that … Read Article

No Joke

At first we were kind of joking about the weekly yogurt report, but it looks like that’s the reality. Yes, there are another couple of yogurt franchises coming to town. Hong’s Landscape & Nursery owner Ilsik Hong and his brother, Jaesik, are opening a Peachwave Self Serve Frozen Yogurt at 2404 N. Maize Road. That’s across from NewMarket Square in the same building where AT&T and Frozen In Time, A… Read Article

Pad sites up Near West-side Menards

Wichita Business Journal - by Chris Moon Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 3:56pm CDT - Last Modified: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 4:19pm CDT Read more: Pad sites up near westside Menards | Wichita Business Journal  Chris Moon Reporter Email: [email protected] looks like marketing is being ratcheted up for pad sites near the newly opened Menards home improvement store in west Wichit… Read Article

Borders will close 75 more stores

Borders will close 75 more storesWichita Business Journal - by Philadelphia Business Journal, Philadelphia Business Journal Date: Monday, March 14, 2011, 11:52am CDT Borders will close 75 stores on top of the 200 closings it had previously announced, according to a report. No word on whether any of its Philadelphia area sites are on the list. The president of the Borders Group bookstore chain has said … Read Article

HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTER OPENS - West-side Menards store is among chains largest

  HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTER OPENS West-side Menards store is among chain's largest  BY BILL WILSON The Wichita Eagle West Wichita shoppers can now get a gallon of milk and a two-by-four under the same roof. Menards, the national home improvement retailer, opened the first of its two Wichita stores this morning at 37th and Maize Road. A second Wichita … Read Article

Cabela's to open store in east Wichita

Cabela's, the Nebraska-based giant national outdoor retailer, is coming to Wichita's Regency Lakes shopping center at 21st and Greenwich in spring 2012. "Cabela's can go to any city in America, and they decided to come to Wichita, America," said George Laham, president of Laham Development and the Regency Lakes developer. "That says a lot about Wichita." Construc… Read Article

One more mattress store to open here

Craig Peterson acknowledges that there are already some good mattress stores in Wichita, but that’s not stopping him from opening Bedtime Mattress Outlet later this month.  “I believe that there’s a need for it here,” he says of a mattress store that sells quality mattresses at discount prices.  “I’m just the alternative to what’s out there ri… Read Article

Former Fritz Co. Grille space sells

 The Wichita EagleBy Carrie RengersWICHITA - There's more happening near K-96 and Webb Road than just the new Menards.Investors also have purchased the former Fritz Co. Grille space, which has been empty since the restaurant closed in May 2007."They're working with a prospect," says Don Ablah of Classic Real Estate, who handled the deal for the buyers.The prospect is another restaurant.… Read Article

Family Dollar eyes 13th and Broadway site

Wichita Business Journal - by Chris Moon Family Dollar is looking to open up for business at 13th Street North and Broadway.Brad Saville and Nick Esterline, of Landmark Commercial Real Estate, are representing the Charlotte, N.C.-based discount chain as it tries to put together a deal on a vacant city-owned lot at 1402 N. Broadway.The company is looking for an investment group to build and own … Read Article

No pancakes coming to 21st and Maize Road

Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 6:25pm CDT   You won’t see IHOP at 21st Street North and Maize Road after all.Wichita developer Austin Kinzle has jettisoned his plans to buy the former New Medical Health Care building at 10525 W. 21st N.He had wanted to scrape it and build a new strip center for the restaurant.But the numbers didn’t work. Kinzle says the doctors who still own… Read Article

Saville's next phase of development slated near Lowe's on North Maize

Premium content from Wichita Business Journal - by Chris Moon Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 6:55pm CDT Developer Brad Saville says additional streets will go in this winter at Central Park Place. Wichita developers Brad Saville and Christian Ablah say they are preparing to begin work on streets and sewers for the next phase of their Central Park Place r… Read Article

People on the Move

Real EstateLandmark Commercial Real Estate Inc. announces that Nick Esterline has been inducted as a member of the Society of Exchange Counselor’s Board of Directors. Landmark Commercial Real Estate Inc. announces that David Leyh has been elected as a 2011 director of the Wichita Area Association of Realtors Board of Directors. Esterline Leyh Read more: People On the Move | Wichita Business Journal