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  • Siemens plans Wichita distribution center

    BY CARRIE RENGERS The Wichita Eagle Siemens, a diversified international company with a focus on energy, is planning to announce today that it has signed a lease for 74,000 square feet of warehous...

  • Bel Aire industrial park hopes to lure wind power, composites

    BY BILL WILSON The Wichita Eagle The leader of a German wind power trade association visited the Wichita area this month, the latest step as local officials continue their recruitment of renewable...

  • German visit could bring wind-power jobs to state

    BY BILL WILSON The Wichita Eagle The leader of a German wind power trade association visited the Wichita area this month, the latest step as local officials continue their recruitment of renewable...

  • Tire distributor signs big lease in south Wichita

    Premium content from Wichita Business Journal – by Chris Moon Huntersville, N.C.-based American Tire Distributors American Tire Distributors Follow this company will open a distribution f...

  • WaterWalk lands Pulaski Bank

    BY DAN VOORHIS The Wichita Eagle WaterWalk on Wednesday announced its first new tenant in several months. Pulaski Bank Home Lending, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Pulaski Bank, has signed a ...

  • Interest in wind picks up

    BY DAN VOORHIS The Wichita Eagle It’s not often a city gets a chance to land a whole new industrial cluster. It’s that possibility that produced grins and laughter among those who ha...

  • Wichita business group makes friends in Germany

    Friday, September 24, 2010, 5:17pm CDT Marlin Penner made a friend today. At the Husum WindEnergy 2010 trade show in Germany — one of the largest such conferences in the world — the Wichita r...

  • Local delegation trying to connect with OEMs at German wind conference

    Thursday, September 23, 2010, 5:43pm CDT A Kansas delegation that’s courting manufacturers at the Husum WindEnergy 2010 trade show in Germany is working to set up a meeting in Wichita with a cons...

  • Salina company working on wind turbine deal in Germany

    Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 5:33pm CDT Executives from a Salina company who are touring the Husum WindEnergy 2010 trade show with a Kansas delegation are working on a deal to fabricate structura...

  • In Germany, Wichita remains an unknown quantity

    Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 5:05pm CDT | Modified: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 5:37pm After a full day of courting European manufacturers in the wind industry, a local delegation of economic ...

  • Wichitans get VIP status at Germany wind show

    Monday, September 20, 2010, 5:43pm CDT | Modified: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 5:38pm When he dialed the WBJ from Germany on Monday afternoon, Marlin Penner was operating on just four hours of...

  • Wichita group visits Husum Wind Energy show in Germany

    Sunday, September 19, 2010, 3:00pm CDT | Modified: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 5:40pm A state and local delegation is spending this week in Germany, doing what it can to court wind energy com...

  • First Student Inc., with 600 buses, now has a place to park them all

    Wichita Business Journal – by Chris Moon Cincinnati-based bus company First Student Inc. has signed long-term leases at two Wichita sites that will serve as hubs for its operations in the ci...

  • 5 questions with Marlin Penner and Don Arnold of NAI John T. Arnold Associates

    BY BILL WILSON The Wichita Eagle Marlin Penner and Don Arnold of NAI John T. Arnold Associates call themselves fortunate to be working in Wichita, where conservative banks and investors have dulled...

  • High Touch Inc. buys 120 S. Main

    Looking to capitalize on an investment opportunity, High Touch Inc. has purchased a downtown building at 120 S. Main. The building is attached to the south side of the 10-story building that High ...

  • Renovation will turn east Wichita rink into mixed martial arts, boxing academy

    Wichita Business Journal – by Chris Moon Media The owners of Laselva Mixed Martial Arts will buy the former Skate East location at 1836 S. Woodlawn. The deal is set to close today. The pur...

  • Tight Lending Slows Down Commercial Development

    BY BILL WILSON The Wichita Eagle It’s harder — much harder — for businesses and entrepreneurs to find financing in Wichita and across the nation. A year removed from the national econom...

  • DeBoer Changes Development Strategy at WaterWalk

    Wichita Business Journal -by Chris Moon In his first major move as primary developer of the downtown WaterWalk project, Wichita businessman Jack DeBoer says he is open to finding development part...

  • Commercial Real Estate Decline May be Slowing

    BY BILL WILSON The Wichita Eagle The commercial sector, battered by tight credit, unemployment and slowing consumer spending, is leveling off, according to a study from the National Association of...

  • Marlin Penner Brokers Deal for Quick Trip

    Developers happy to get QT at Ridge, K-96 BY BILL WILSON The Wichita Eagle The developers of a 38-acre tract on Ridge Road near K-96 say QuikTrip’s decision earlier this month to build th...

  • Technology & Real Estate

    REALTORS ROLL WITH TECHNOLOGY Electronic tools give real estate agents’ listings more immediacy BY BILL WILSON The Wichita Eagle WICHITA – Marlin Penner loves his new high-tech downtown...

  • WE MOVED!

    We moved to the other side of the block on December 5th! We are now on the southeast corner of Douglas and Main on the first floor of the Center Point building. Our new address is:...

  • Check out our new website!

    In an effort to make our site prettier and even more user friendly, we have redone it. Hopefully you will find it easier to navigate and nicer to look at. Check it out!