WICHITA — Bankruptcy attorney Mark Lazzo is moving his firm from Second and Market downtown to the east side.
“Parking’s difficult down here, and traffic’s difficult,” he says. “It’s more convenient for clients to be on the outskirts and be able to roll up doorside.”
His new space will be at Landmark Office Park at 3500 N. Rock Road.
“I need more room,” says Lazzo, who is a co-owner in the 3,700-square-foot building where he currently has 1,000 square feet.
His new space, where he’s moving next week, is 1,650 square feet.
Brent Stewart of J.P. Weigand & Sons represented Lazzo in the deal.
Calvin Klaassen of Utter Commercial Real Estate handled it for Landmark.
Lazzo says he’ll miss his friends in the building where he is now, and he’ll particularly miss the closeness of the courthouse.
“I’ve been downtown since I became an attorney 23 years ago,” he says. “It’ll be a change, but I’m looking forward to it.”
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“Parking’s difficult down here.” Doesn’t he realize that the City and County consultant has decreed that people don’t mind walking four or five blocks.
I just looked at the building on Google Earth. There are on the street parking space right in front of the building, across the street on both sides of the building. A lot across the street to the east and one diagonally across the corner, a lot behind the building??? Now I am not sure how much parking he needs or if the lots shown are reserved or not but to answer “wecandobetter” there does seem to be plenty of parking. As for Mr Lazzo’s decision to locate in that spot and utilize street parking he could have just as well located in a downtown building like the Garvey Center which has 1200 parking spaces. Or he can go out east and pay higher rent per square foot, commute time, gas cost and such to come down to the courthouse. I wish he would have chose to remain downtown. Others like Foster Design that is moving from N. Woodlawn to downtown realize downtown is the place to be.
Cycle… nice job of turning that whole argument on its head. The reality is that this story illustrates why the arena is a bad idea… people are moving away from downtown. The guy nailed it… he said people prefer to be on the edges of town.
Course, it would be in line with all the other pro-arena nonsense to use people LEAVING DOWNTOWN as an argument IN FAVOR of locating things there… sheesh.
wordsmith – I fail to see the connection between this company moving and the success of the Arena??? The article was about the daytime parking for this business and I was pointing out there seemed to be ample parking for his business. By the way I drove by there today at 3:25 and there were five empty parking spaces on the street within in fifty feet of his door. If you are tying the article to parking for the Arena then look again. View the bookings at the Arena and tell me how many are occurring before 5:00 PM? Again no connection. So stop trying to turn the facts around.