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Safelite AutoGlass is leaving downtown for a new 25,000-square-foot warehouse at 8804 E. 34th St. North near K-96.
"It's a better, more visible location," says Randy Randolph , vice president of real estate and market development for the Ohio-based company.
The company currently is at 701 E. Murdock, between St. Francis and Washington.
"When they put the overpass in, it really cut the visibility of our location down on Murdock," Randolph says of the train overpass that was built a few years back.
Safelite, which has about 25 employees, will be the first tenant in the new space on East 34th Street. The company likely will move in January or February.
"It needs to be built out," Randolph says.
The new building mainly will be a warehouse for Safelite.
"It's also where we'll dispatch our mobile technicians," Randolph says.
About 90 percent of the company's business here is with mobile technicians repairing or installing new glass in cars at customers' homes or offices. Safelite is in all 50 states.
"Wichita's always been a very good market for us," Randolph says.
"We think it's a positive move forward for us, and we're looking forward to getting in the new home."
A spoonful of Sugar
The Sugar Sisters are back.
Kelli Sykes is reopening Sugar Sisters Bakery , this time in Delano , with a little behind-the-scenes help from her sisters Kristine and Katie .
The sisters closed their original Sugar Sisters Bakery & Cafe near Central and Oliver in January after struggling financially and with service issues for three years.
"I learned from our mistakes the first time," Kelli Sykes says.
"My sisters kind of gave up (and) wanted to pursue their dreams, but I still wanted to do a bakery," she says.
"In high school I went to Kapaun , and everyone called me Betty Crocker (and) Mom. They all wanted me to open a bakery. That's kind of where my dream started."
The new business will be in 1,200 square feet at 917 W. Douglas just down from Club Billiards .
Joey Ritchie and Leisa Lowry of J.P. Weigand & Sons handled the deal.
Sugar Sisters mainly will be a bakery but will have some lunch items as well and seating for about 10.
Sykes says her bierocks will be a staple.
"Anyone who's had them has been instantly addicted."
She'll also serve chicken salad, quiche and some deli items such as cold pasta.
Since the other business closed, Sykes says she's been doing special orders and has been receiving great feedback.
For instance, one drug rep orders about 100 cupcakes a week.
"She says every time she takes them somewhere people go crazy," Sykes says. She says fans of the restaurant have "been going nuts since we closed."
For those who weren't fans or were disappointed by a previous experience, Sykes says, "I would invite them to give me another chance."
She hopes they "just come up to me personally and tell me what happened last time, and if they would give me a chance, I would like to make it up somehow and make them a fan."
Baking is her passion, Sykes says, but people are, too.
"I love making people happy."
To that end, Sykes says, "I want to hire... homemaker-type moms."
She thinks that will help with customer service.
Sykes plans to open by Thanksgiving.
"I've just got big plans and big dreams, and I plan to be around a very long time."
Working through it
Another restaurant that has had some struggles but is working through them is Dolci & Joes in College Hill.
The restaurant at 3425 E. Douglas is almost $21,000 behind in state taxes. Co-owner Josh Crowe says he'll have it paid within a month.
He says he's "just kind of reorganizing it all and addressing back issues, essentially."
Crowe has a new partner, Benjamin Juhnke .
As the restaurant prepares to enter its third year in November, Crowe says they're "just dealing with little blemishes that had occurred in the first two."
"A large part of it was just in the organization and the operation of the company."
He's made changes such as having table service instead of having customers order at the counter. Crowe says he's addressed speed and efficiency issues as well.
He says customers who have been to the restaurant in the past "would notice some dramatic changes" if they come now.
Crowe says Dolci & Joes also is making a bigger push with corporate and catering clients.
"We'll go where our patronship is," he says.
"We're looking forward to the years to come."
Innovative expansion
Innovative Vein Solutions is expanding again.
Physician Paul Cheatum opened his first clinic in 2009 at the Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich.
About nine months ago, he expanded with a satellite office in Hutchinson. Next month, he's adding one in Winfield at Winfield Medical Arts .
"We'll be offering all of the normal services we offer here, particularly the varicose vein treatments and spider vein treatments," Cheatum says. "Eventually we hope to take some aesthetic services down there as well."
He's planning to expand to western Kansas next year.
Cheatum says the expansions should save a lot of his customers a drive.
"It's nice to be closer to them so they can get services more conveniently."
You don't say
"Hint: You're not in Kansas anymore. Welcome to Vegas!"
—A large sign welcoming customers in the baggage claim area of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas
