“How much money do you really need to make?”
– Ben Arnold of Corporate Caterers of Wichita on how he’s not going to make his popular Thanksgiving feast this year in order to spend time with his family and rest up for the Christmas season (during which he makes three months of sales in three and a half weeks)
WICHITA — In 2010, a group of developers announced plans to convert the historic Trinity Methodist Church in Delano into apartments.
That never happened.
New Life Church has been meeting at the building, which is at 411 S. Martinson, and pastor Fred Hayes wants to make sure it remains a church.
“We’ve been striving to refurbish and bring it back to its former glory,” Hayes says. “We’ve been laboring trying to get it back up to par.”
Hayes says if his church can’t make it there, the building could become something else. He calls it “a very real reality.”
He says the apartments didn’t happen because the developers couldn’t get the historic designation they needed for tax credits to rehabilitate the building.
“That’s why they didn’t pursue it.”
The building was built in 1906 and at one time was one of the biggest churches in the city. Until recently, its address was 1409 W. Maple, but that changed due to some additions to the building.
Hayes says there are some immediate concerns with the property, such as fixing the heating and roof.
“It’s just a lot of work that needs to be done,” he says.
WICHITA — A Massage Palace & Spa owner Laney Grady is moving her 2-year-old business from near Douglas and Grove to 900 N. Tyler near Central and Tyler.
“We had … two break-ins over there,” she says of her previous location. “It was … a really, really bad area as far as for business.”
Grady says the break-ins were seven days apart. In the first one, she says, all her electronics were stolen. Once she replaced them all, that’s when she says the second break-in occurred. Grady says her place was then trashed and had more than $30,000 in damage.
“The insurance company was like, look, if something else happens over there, we might not be able to cover it. It was that bad.”
The new space is 1,472 square feet.
Cory Harkleroad of KW Commercial and Rod Stewart handled the deal.
The business, which offers massage, facials and body treatments such as a body wrap, officially reopens on Nov. 1.