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Five questions with Troy Carlson

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 3 at 5:48 a.m.

Troy Carlson grew up as a western Kansas farm boy.

Wichita to hear tax district request

BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 2 at 5:38 a.m.

The Wichita City Council agreed Tuesday to set a public hearing for Dec. 6 to hear a request by a developer to establish a special tax district in south Wichita.

Businesses to join Walmart at Marina Lakes Shopping Center

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 1 at 5:51 a.m.

A Wichita shopping center is getting new owners.

Flint Hills Ranch sells for $4.5 million

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 25 at 12:08 a.m.

An Oklahoma cattle ranching family has purchased more than 2,500 acres of Butler County land for its operation.

Agents learn to pitch commercial properties

BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 20 at 12:08 a.m.

Like starting a car on a winter morning, making a real estate deal in a cold market takes some extra oomph.

Local housing market on slow path to health

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 15 at 8:28 a.m.

The Wichita housing market will continue its painfully slow rebound in 2012 amid high unemployment headwinds, two economists said Friday. In his annual Kansas Housing Markets Forecast, delivered at the Wichita Marriott, Stan Longhofer said he's optimistic that the worst is over in the Wichita housing market.

Mortgage rates to stay low for select buyers

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 15 at 8:28 a.m.

There's good news going forward for potential homebuyers: Mortgage rates should remain at or near historic lows in Wichita for the next three years.

Office complex planned near 21st, Webb

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 13 at 5:54 a.m.

A local developer is planning some of the city's first new Class A office space in recent years, a 60,000-square-foot, four-building complex in east Wichita named the Offices at Cranbrook.

Parade of Homes key for sellers of new houses

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 11 at 12:09 a.m.

The 2011 Fall Parade of Homes got off to a solid start last weekend despite the first appearance of rain this fall.

Refinancings soar amid low mortgage rates

By Jody Shenn, Bloomberg News | Oct. 9 at 12:09 a.m.

NEW YORK — Refinancing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages with the lowest interest rates soared as prepayments on loans with the highest rates declined, underscoring how only some homeowners can take advantage of the best borrowing costs on record.

Bel Aire industrial park hopes to lure wind power, composites

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 6 at 12:09 a.m.

The Bel Aire City Council is creating an 804-acre industrial park that will target the growing wind power and composites industries.

Pending home sales fall 1.2%

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 5 at 5:46 a.m.

Wichita seems to be bucking a national slowdown in residential housing sales, according to figures from some of the city's biggest brokerages.

Interior work begins on downtown hotel

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Sep. 15 at 7:46 a.m.

Preliminary interior demolition has begun at downtown's first boutique hotel, and developers say the project is on target for a December 2012 opening.

Wichita poised to adopt tighter rules for slab construction

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Sep. 14 at 6:26 a.m.

Betty Wiens hopes that no one in Wichita ever has to spend $80,000 to put a 5-year-old house back together.

A wiser city is ready to move ahead with Wichita hotel

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Sep. 11 at 10:47 a.m.

The first project proposed under new rules to protect the taxpayers' investment in downtown goes before the city council Tuesday: A 117-room, $30 million hotel on the southeast corner of Douglas and Broadway.

Contract for hotel parking garage to be open for bids

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Sep. 9 at 12:08 a.m.

The city has backed off on a plan to give a $7.5 million no-bid contract to Key Construction for a downtown parking garage.

Downtown Wichita is on a roll

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Sep. 8 at 7:25 a.m.

It has been a year since a consultant first rolled out Project Downtown, the master plan to revitalize Wichita's downtown. It has been a year of successes: the Cargill Innovation Center, a flurry of new and renovated hotel rooms, a retooled piece of the river front, a handful of new condominiums. But it also has been a year when city leaders began contemplating a downtown without its largest property owner, the financially strapped Minnesota Guys, who operate as Real Development.

Homeownership harder to attain since recession

By Kirsten Valle Pittman, McClatchy Newspapers | Sep. 6 at 12:08 a.m.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. —When Lina and Jimi Gibson moved into their 850-square-foot apartment in 2009, they figured they'd stay two years while they planned their wedding and saved for a house. Now, with the economy in another tailspin, they're on the fence.

Simon steps down as Real Development's leasing agent

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Sep. 1 at 3:47 p.m.

Real Development's leasing agent resigned Thursday afternoon as questions continued about maintenance neglect at the company's signature downtown Wichita property.

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