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Sales of existing and new homes in the Wichita area dropped dramatically in November. Source: South Central Kansas MLS
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Arena neighbor weighs options
Joe Doubrava calls the future of his downtown Wichita auto repair shop "a series of opportunities" as its new neighbor, Intrust Bank Arena, takes shape a few blocks to the east.
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Retailers' efforts are paying off
The Christmas shopping season hasn't been the kind of disaster that some feared, despite a bitterly cold final weekend, say some retailers.
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Fox Collision owner bankrupt
The former owner of Fox Collision Center and his wife have filed for personal bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wichita, listing $9,960 in assets and almost $20 million in liabilities.
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Food, fuel cards are hottest gifts
Food and gasoline are two of the Christmas season's hottest gifts, both locally and nationally. Kroger, the parent company of Dillons, has seen food and gas card sales jump "by double digits," spokeswoman Meghan Glynn said Friday.
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Auto auctioneers denied space near McConnell
The Metropolitan Area Planning Commission denied a rezoning request for a 40-acre regional automotive auction yard on Rock Road just south of McConnell Air Force Base.
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Judge backs Ritchie in lawsuit over waste station
A Sedgwick County District Court judge ruled Thursday that two Wichita companies did not collude to drive up the price of a waste transfer station sold to a national trash company.
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Paul Mitchell school to merge with Vernon's
Longtime Vernon's Kansas School of Cosmetology owner Rick Laurino has reached a tentative agreement to sell the business to Clint and Schrene Davis, owners of Paul Mitchell the School-Wichita.
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PAUL MITCHELL THE SCHOOL-WICHITA
Founded: 2008 Owners: Clint and Schrene Davis Employees: 16 What the school does: Teaches cosmetology and business skills Address: 3242 N. Rock Road, Suite 106
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School supply co. sells all 3 divisions
Superior School Supplies, a decades-old Wichita fixture, completed the sale of its three divisions this week. Canada-based Constellation Software, through its Harris Computer Systems subsidiary, announced the purchase Tuesday of Superior's food service software assets.
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Nifty Nut House takes its goodie sales online
Just imagine what the Muckenthaler brothers, Ed and Gus, would be thinking about the Nifty Nut House of today. Not just because the unique Wichita business has grown exponentially since they founded it in 1937 and it's once again operating at a frantic pace this Christmas season.
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Trinity senior wins Barton scholarship
Timothy Wiesner called winning Wichita State University's 2009-10 Clay Barton Scholarship in Business "the best piece of bad news I've ever gotten."
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Development groups have tax credits to sell
Two Wichita-based business development agencies need to sell almost $700,000 in 75 percent state tax credits before the end of the year.
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Area real estate buyers, sellers 'hunkered down'
The year 2008 will be remembered for the land deals that weren't in the Wichita area, local brokers and developers say. Remember the phrase "hunkered down," because it best characterizes land buyers and sellers in the local market.
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Newton conference center on hold
A public-private partnership to build Newton's first conference center has been temporarily derailed by the national economic downturn.
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Saturn dealer waits anxiously
It's going to be an anxious few days, weeks or even months for Scott Davies as the Wichita Saturn dealer awaits the fate of his brand, which could be eliminated in a General Motors restructuring.
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Initial holiday sales meet economists' predictions
There's an old axiom among economists: Pay attention to what shoppers do, not what they say. What those shoppers are doing in Wichita this holiday season is shopping carefully, comparing prices and then spending at levels near retailers' diminished expectations for Christmas 2008.
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Mortgages at less than 4%?
The possibility of mortgage rates below 4 percent on home sales has received a mixed reaction among real estate and banking locals.
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Arnold's move means room to grow
Marlin Penner's first day in his new office at the corner of Main and Douglas on Monday was anything but typical: no desk and no computer, as work on the new offices at Center Point swirled around the president of Wichita's NAI John T. Arnold Associates.
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