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By Deb Gruver, The Wichita Eagle | Jan. 5 at 6:46 a.m. Its highly probable that developer Jay Maxwell will come back to Sedgwick County for a second chance after commissioners voted Wednesday against incentives for his $153 million Southfork project, Maxwells representative said.
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Jan. 4 at 8:11 p.m. A Kansas City-based development team will bring a $50 million STAR bond proposal for northeast Wichita before the City Council on Tuesday.
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times | Dec. 30 at 6:51 a.m. LOS ANGELES — The most Americans in more than 18 months signed contracts in November to buy homes, raising hopes that a boost in sales will follow, a real estate industry group reported Thursday.
By Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 29 at 8:09 a.m. A year ago, forecasters called for slow economic improvement in the year to come. We got that, along with an incredibly bumpy ride.
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 29 at 7:32 a.m. The Park City City Council is ready to help a Wichita developer renovate the Britt Brown Arena at the Kansas Coliseum, if the arena can be annexed into the city.
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 23 at 7:42 a.m. The Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas is looking for 30,000 square feet of office space in Wichita with its lease expiring next summer at 150 N. Main., one of the centerpieces of the Minnesota Guys’ downtown Wichita portfolio.
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 22 at 7:23 a.m. It’s not 2007 again, but after four difficult years, Wichita’s struggling housing market appears to have found bottom and is set to rebound significantly in 2012, along with many national markets.
By DION LEFLER, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 5 at 11:39 a.m. Wichita voters will get to decide Feb 28 on whether to tap the city bed tax to help finance a boutique hotel downtown.
By BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 15 at 5:55 a.m. The 2-year-old dream of Harvey County leaders is little more than an empty field today, with some new streets at Newtons southeast corner.
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 9 at 7:03 a.m. Herb Krumsick’s message for his fellow commercial realtors was simple Thursday: “Your day is coming.”
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 8 at 7:34 a.m. Herb Krumsick grew up poor in Pittsburg and decided he wanted something more out of life.
BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 3 at 8:23 a.m. A downtown development group has dropped one project and is gearing up for a public fight over another with a local free-market group that opposes public subsidies for private development.
By Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 28 at 11:16 p.m. The building at 206 E. 18th St. could hardly be more different now than it was eight months ago.
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 24 at 8:04 a.m. A prominent Wichita commercial developer has tied up a key piece of land near Mulvane’s Kansas Star Casino as his partnership group studies the land’s potential for casino-related business.
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 23 at 6:24 a.m. Ron Peake, best known in Wichita for the upscale homes he built as Ron Peake Design-Build, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
By BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 21 at 10:18 p.m. For the first time in several years, there’s optimism as the Wichita housing market winds toward the end of the year.
By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 15 at 6:04 a.m. A petition drive to force a small piece of the Ambassador Hotel Wichita’s funding to a vote is still short of its 2,528-signature goal, organizers said Monday.
BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 4 at 12:08 a.m. National and regional home sales slipped predictably in September as the peak summer sales period waned, according to an index by the National Association of Realtors that measures pending sales.
BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Feb. 9 at 6:45 a.m. Wichita builder Ted Farha is all in for downtown Wichita. Three weeks ago, he moved his Farha Construction company to 120 E. First St. in the old Protection One building.