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Darryl Starbird's more than half-century old car show is getting new owners. Five partners, including businessman Tom Devlin , are purchasing the show and are holding a news conference Wednesday to announce changes for the new Starbird-Devlin Rod & Customs Charities Car Show .
The new owners are doing business as Cars for Charities Co. and on Wednesday will announce charities that will receive proceeds from future shows.
Starbird, who is close to 80, will have some announcements of his own at the afternoon news conference, which is at Devlin Rod & Customs .
The first show of the newly named Starbird-Devlin Rod & Customs Charities Car Show is Jan. 20-22 at Century II .
The western front
Last month, Have You Heard? reported on two new retail centers George Holland is building on more than 11 acres on the corner where the Horn bar sits and where his Holland Paving and Holland Ventures offices are.
Since then, though, readers have been wondering what's up with the cow town theme the development has. The buildings that have gone up so far look as if they're off the set of a western movie.
Holland would rather not discuss details of where the buildings came from.
Hint: Think about what short-lived business was forced to have a fire sale of western buildings a few years back.
Holland eventually plans to renovate the buildings.
"We're going to make them storefronts," he says. "We're not going to make them shootout galleries."
Holland may have details on his first tenant, a national business, within 10 days or so.
"The deal's in the works."
Same story, new place
Real Development's problems with maintenance issues and unhappy tenants and vendors aren't confined to the Wichita Executive Centre .
There are also headaches for the Minnesota Guys at the Farmers and Bankers Building at 200 E. First St. and the Landmark Building at 212 N. Market. The buildings are attached.
Westar Energy put up a delinquent notice at the Farmers and Bankers Building to shut off power on Oct. 7.
"There isn't trouble," says partner Michael Elzufon . "If there's a notice, I guess it's arguably about whether or not it's premature."
Partner Dave Lundberg says Real Development owes $10,000 on its energy bill and Westar also is demanding $10,000 for a utility deposit.
"We have never had a shut-off of a utility of any kind at any time in any building — period," Elzufon says.
"It's rather interesting that these kinds of playing the laundry out in the middle of the world (happen). It's a little frustrating ... to say the least."
In an e-mail, a Westar spokeswoman said she can't discuss private account information.
"However, we are working with this customer to remedy the situation."
In response to questions about possible air-conditioning malfunctions or pest problems, Elzufon and Lundberg say they're not aware of other issues at the properties.
"Any and all of the building issues, these are clearly reasons or indicators of why there was a need to make some changes to the management of the buildings," Elzufon says.
Former manager R.E. Black Building Management and the Minnesota Guys recently parted ways.
"We have a very focused and committed team taking over management this week," Elzufon says.
"There's a lot of very significant changes that are taking place in the management and the operations. There isn't a tenant that isn't going to feel and see changes in a very beneficial manner in a very short time."
His Fit Wichita
Shawn Strickland has worked for a large fitness facility in the past, but he thinks it makes sense to approach fitness another way, so he's opening My Fit Wichita — Fat Loss Studio .
"Basically, I'm opening a personal training studio geared entirely toward fat loss," he says.
"It's an epidemic," Strickland says. "Almost 70 percent of people are overweight, and a third of people are obese, so there's definitely a need for it."
His studio will be off of Rock Road south of Harry at 1822 S. Longfellow Circle.
Strickland says it will be different from larger facilities.
"Their whole model is set up around memberships, and it's not set up around getting results for people," he says.
Strickland will offer semi-private classes of about six people. His grand opening is Oct. 31, but starting Saturday Strickland will offer free Saturday fat-loss boot camps at 9:30 a.m.
"It's basically just to ... give people a chance to try me out, get my name out there a little bit (and) get rid of some of the excuses people have for not exercising — because it's free, and it's only an hour and on a Saturday," he says.
"I want to be a complete solution."
You don't say
"Everybody wants me to reopen it. ... I've just got too much going on."
—James Rowe , who says he evicted Tabu last week from his property at 3813 N. Broadway and wants to lease it again instead of reopening his Roadhouse club
