Daily Archives: Oct. 9, 2012

You don’t say

Oct. 9, 20123:03 p.m.

“The Wichita area is oversaturated … especially west Wichita.”

– West-side Peachwave Self Serve Frozen Yogurt franchisee Ilsik Hong, who says he closed his store because too many yogurt shops compete in Wichita

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Wasabi Restaurant to open on the west side

Oct. 9, 20122:34 p.m.

WICHITA — Wasabi owner Steve Young is preparing to open his third Wichita restaurant, this time on the west side.

Young is taking two spaces in the center at 2404 N. Maize Road near 21st and Maize Road for a total of 3,085 square feet.

That’s near Logan’s Roadhouse where Frozen in Time, a scrapbooking store, once was along with Peachwave Self Serve Frozen Yogurt, which recently closed.

Bree Kelley of J.P. Weigand & Sons and Don Piros of Landmark Commercial Real Estate handled the deal.

Young opened Old Town Sushi Bar By Wasabi on East Douglas in 2010 followed by Wasabi Restaurant at 3242 N. Rock Road last fall.

The new west-side restaurant, which also will be called Wasabi Restaurant, will be similar to the east-side one.

“Basically, he wants to do a little more upscale than downtown,” Kelley says of Young. “He’s going to have a nice bar in there.”

Young hopes to open in early December in time for the holiday season.

Kelley says Wasabi should be well received.

“I would think that the west-siders will be excited to have them in their neighborhood as an option to go to.”

 

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Sports Fan Room to open at Chisholm Trail Center-Outlet & Retail Shops

Oct. 9, 20121:47 p.m.

WICHITA — Sports fans soon will have a new reason to shop at Chisholm Trail Center-Outlet & Retail Shops.

David Glass is opening his Sports Fan Room, which has been an Internet-based sports apparel and memorabilia business for the last five years, in the Newton shopping center.

“I knew this business was not going to grow until I got into a brick-and-mortar,” Glass says.

He says a storefront also allows for more products because some suppliers deal only with retail locations or a combination of retail and online businesses.

The store will carry NCAA apparel and memorabilia along with items from the NFL, NHL and Major League Baseball teams and NASCAR.

“We’ll probably have one of the largest product mixes of NASCAR around the area,” Glass says.

He’ll continue Internet sales as well.

The store will have a 5,000-square-foot showroom in the front and 5,000 square feet of storage for the Internet business in the back.

Glass likes that Chisholm Trail is along Interstate 135 with lots of traffic.

“Chisholm Trail knew what I was looking for,” he says. “Their prices are just extremely reasonable. They go the extra mile to help the new tenants.”

Look for the store to open sometime in early November.

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