Wichita will soon be down one sweet business

In a message to customers, Farris Wheel owners Angie Farha and her brother-in-law, Ed Farha, said it “is with heavy hearts” that they’ve decided to close their Cambridge Market store.

Angie Farha says the decision has been coming for several months.

She’s in residential real estate and is not at the store full time. Farha says Ed Farha has “decided to pursue other options,” so it makes sense to close.

Ed Farha’s father and stepmother, Farris and Karen Farha, opened the Farris Wheel in 2006 next to Piccadilly Market at Central and Rock Road. They designed it to be an old-fashioned candy store.

“I’ve always been a kid,” Farris Farha said at the time. “I just wanted to have a candy store.”

The store, which in 2015 moved to Cambridge Market, at 21st and Webb Road, sells candy, nuts, favors, baskets and corporate gifts.

Angie Farha says they’ll start discounting merchandise on March 24.

She says she expects to be open about three more weeks.

Response to the coronavirus so far is not affecting the store, and Farha says it’s too early to say if something would happen where the store has to close and then later reopen to have a closing sale.

“But right now that’s not the plan.”

This story was originally published March 16, 2020 at 12:39 PM.