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It is the iconic piece of real estate in the drive to revitalize Wichita’s downtown: a historic train station that once was the front door to a growing city.
The Wichita City Council has approved a traffic plan for Douglas that calls for the eventual elimination of a bottleneck that narrows the street to one lane eastbound for the block in front of Eaton Place.
Would you like to know if a neighbor has a permit to work on his house? That answer and others will be made available online starting today as the city of Wichita’s inspection office moves to a new data system that it hopes will make tracking and managing building projects more efficient for everyone.
The Wichita City Council will be asked Tuesday to endorse a traffic study that could eventually lead to the elimination of a bottleneck on Douglas downtown.
It won’t be long until activity resumes at one of Wichita’s iconic downtown retail buildings: the Henry’s building at Broadway and William.
Boeing’s leaving. The top executives at Coleman are already gone. Wichita wasn’t even in the running for the Siemens plant in Hutchinson or the Mars plant in Topeka.
Wichita-area home sales ended 2011 on an uptick, with sales up and inventories at good levels.
In the midst of one of the most difficult real estate environments in a generation, two Newton Realtors have thrown their money in with an aggressive economic development effort.
Project Downtown’s first year has yielded almost 250 new hotel rooms – either open or under construction – as part of a busy year that is approaching the master plan’s 10-year goal for downtown hotel rooms.
Wichita Realtors and builders are upset with Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to eliminate the mortgage interest tax deduction, saying that piece of the governor’s state tax reform plan will stymie an already struggling housing market.
One of the last remaining original buyers of commercial condominiums from the Minnesota Guys of Real Development is going into foreclosure.
Beth King, a Wichita public relations consultant and the fiancee of City Manager Robert Layton, resigned her consultant’s post Friday with a Kansas City group proposing a $50 million STAR bond entertainment complex at K-96 and Greenwich.
Three City Council members say that the involvement of Wichita City Manager Robert Layton’s fiancee in a STAR bond project creates a conflict of interest for the manager.
Proponents of downtown development said Thursday that they are alarmed by Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed elimination of a key redevelopment tool.
Local mortgage lenders see an opportunity with MetLife’s plans to exit the mortgage origination business.
Wichita will never be New York, but the Big Apple is Robert Eyster’s inspiration for redeveloping downtown.
2011 ended with the lowest total of housing foreclosures in Sedgwick County since 2007, according to foreclosure filings with the Sedgwick County District Court.
Wichita City Council members say they’re ready to set a public hearing on a proposed destination entertainment and shopping complex at K-96 and Greenwich that would be funded by state sales tax revenue.
A longtime Harvey County farming family with golfing interests has purchased the farmland and remaining undeveloped lots around Newton’s Sand Creek Station golf course.
Work to remodel Britt Brown Arena at the former Kansas Coliseum complex will begin next week so the National Institute for Aviation Research can do full-scale structural testing and other work and testing there.
