Daily Archives: Oct. 5, 2010

Kellogg-Buck Furniture undergoes repairs to be ready for future potential occupants

WICHITA — In other Delano news today, there’s been some activity in the former Kellogg-Buck Furniture store, which is leading some people to wonder what’s going in there.

Nothing yet, but Don Ablah of Classic Real Estate is working on it.

There are two separate owners of the two buildings, which share a common wall in the 900 block of West Douglas.

They’ve been doing some repair work from hail damage, which is what’s leading to the questions.

Ablah is looking for buyers or tenants.

You don’t say

“This (is) every legal citizen’s chance to learn how to roll your own — cigar that is.”

Occidental Management chairman Gary Oborny, joking about the Rocky Patel rolling event at Auburn Spirits Cigar Shop Wednesday

You don’t say

“It’s like a circus with no elephants.”

Intrust Bank Arena director of sales and marketing Sarah Haertl, who wrote on her Facebook page that she wouldn’t follow WWE wrestling on TV but loved having it at the arena Monday night

Kay’s This N’ That to sell or close

WICHITA — Kay’s This N’ That turned 40 Oct. 1, and owner Kay Hettenbach says it’s time to call it quits.

“Well, we would like to retire,” she says. “We don’t know when this is going to happen, but I do have the business up for sale.

“Do you want to buy it?”

Hettenbach says costume rentals and sales are strong.

“Right now it’s very good,” she says. “Actually, we stay pretty steady all year long.”

The store sells all kinds of accessories for costumes as well.

Hettenbach says there always seem to be parties, holidays, “school book reports and things like that going on” that require costumes or accessories.

She’s been in her building at Second and Anna, which also is for sale, all four decades she’s been in business.

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Gilley’s may or may not happen in Delano

WICHITA — The 15,000-square-foot country-western bar and restaurant Chris Ruffin had hoped to bring to the former Davis Furniture space in Delano may not happen.

Ruffin is director of real estate for his father Phil Ruffin’s Ruffin Properties.

There’s a Gilley’s in Phil Ruffin’s Treasure Island in Las Vegas just like there was in his New Frontier Hotel and Casino. That’s what was in the works here.

“The boys are sold on the idea of the Gilley’s . . . but the old man is not,” Phil Ruffin says of his sons.

“We’re still getting some numbers,” Ruffin says of renovating the space. “The numbers originally came in very high.”

If Gilley’s doesn’t happen, Ruffin says he’ll lease the space to someone else.

“There’s always someone. It’s a really good location.”

It’s where he hoped he and business partner Donald Trump could put a casino.

“That whole area was the location for the Trump Tower,” Ruffin says.

“They talk about downtown revitalization. What that would have done. My god. . . . And, of course, it got shot down.”

We’ll let you know whether or not “the old man” shoots down Gilley’s.