WICHITA — Ron Boss is moving his west-side CPA firm, Boss & Co., from 1,500 square feet at 10011 W. 21st St. to 1,800 square feet at 889 N. Maize Road, which is just north of Central on the west side of Maize Road.
Adam Clements of Builders Inc. handled the deal.
The move happens May 31. There are no changes with Boss’ Andover office.
WICHITA — After a dozen years in business, China Go is getting a sister restaurant.
China Go Grill will open June 8 in 1,800 square feet at 1230 S. Rock Road near Harry and Rock.
“There’s going to be four different concepts,” says owner Debbie Diec.
Chinese food still will be the main emphasis, but there also will be Japanese hibachi, Vietnamese sandwiches and chicken wings.
Since Diec began telling customers at her existing restaurant, which is near 37th and Woodlawn, she says she’s amazed at how many of them tell her they frequent the Harry and Rock area and will eat at her new place as well.
“Everyone is so excited we’re coming down this way.”
A west-side location is a possibility one day, too, and it looks like it probably won’t take another 12 years to happen.
“Sometimes it’s a whole lot easier to do that if you don’t know what you’re doing.”
– Car salesman Dawson Grimsley, who claims not to be a good golfer but scored a hole-in-one at the West Wichita Sunrise Rotary Charity Golf Tournament Monday (and donated his prize of a $12,500 Harley-Davidson back to the charity)
WICHITA –Earlier this month, when Have You Heard? asked Joel Elsea of Elsea & Petty Home Owners Association Management if he’d sold his business, he said: “There are days when I wish I could say that’s the case. Unfortunately, today’s not one of them.”
Today, however, is.
“Well, I have sold,” Elsea says.
Indianapolis-based OMNI Management Services purchased the company, which Elsea and Heather Petty founded in 2006.
“We’re keeping the same staff, and we’re keeping the same location,” Elsea says. “We’re operating basically the same we were.”
Elsea & Petty manages about 5,500 properties. OMNI operates in 13 states and 19 markets.
“They’re at a point where I always hoped we’d be some day,” Elsea says. “They manage communities that one community is twice the size of our entire portfolio. They just do things on a bigger scale, and they have more experience.”
Elsea says it will take several months to implement OMNI’s technologies “to help us be more effective.”
“I just feel like this is the next step in our evolution, and I’m glad to be associated with them and get to the next level.”
Elsea is going to take the summer off and then return to the company, though he’s not sure in what capacity yet.
“I need to let my nerve endings heal a little bit.”
WICHITA — TJ’s Burger House owner John Abdayem is out of his east-side restaurant, but he says it’s not by choice.
Abdayem still has his Delano location, but he’s distancing himself from the former TJ’s at Harry and Webb with a sign at his Delano restaurant and through a Facebook post saying his landlord has inappropriately taken over the east-side space, which is now known as the Burger House.
Abdayem says he was interested in possibly closing his restaurant so a friend could open a combination hamburger and hookah business there, “which made the landlord very angry.”
Landlord Homer Morgan didn’t return a call for comment, but an employee of his says it was Abdayem who closed the business.
“The intention was not to even close until the end of June or even July,” Abdayem says. He says Morgan “went behind my back and told the employees of the plan on Wednesday.”
“He told them I was going to shut it down that weekend.”
Abdayem, who says he’s considering his options for getting the space back, says he can’t get back on the premises to collect his belongings. He’s also concerned his customers will continue going to the restaurant and not have the same experience as when he ran it.
“I want people to know that (my business) is no way affiliated with the east side.”
WICHITA — Chico’s FAS Inc. is bringing another new store to Bradley Fair.
Almost seven years ago, the Florida-based Chico’s opened two brands – Chico’s and White House/Black Market – at the development.
Now, the company has plans to open Soma Intimates, which sells lingerie and sleepwear.
“Because the women of Wichita have embraced Chico’s and White House/Black Market, the company is eager … to bring Soma to Bradley Fair,” says Cathy Erickson, vice president at Laham Development.
The first Soma Intimates opened in 2004. Now there are almost 200 of the boutiques nationally.
The Bradley Fair store, which will be between Brick’s and Trio’s, will be 2,520 square feet.
“We’re taking excess space not being used by Brick’s and building that out for Soma,” Erickson says.
WICHITA — It’s been a long time coming, but NuWay finally is returning to the 21st and Amidon area.
The restaurant is going to open west of the intersection at 2135 W. 21st St., which will make the sixth NuWay in Wichita for the 82-year-old chain.
The Lotus Garden had been in that spot for 25 years. It was torn down earlier this week.
“We’ve been trying to open this thing for a year and a half,” says Chris Stong, director of operations.
It was about two decades ago that the NuWay closed at Twin Lakes on the southeast corner of the intersection.
“It was an absolutely fantastic location,” Stong says.
Then, occupancy faltered at the development, he says, and the restaurant left. Stong says he and his family have long wanted to open a new restaurant in the area.
“We think the neighborhood is fantastic,” he says. “Obviously, with everything else going on in the area, it’s a great location.”
WICHITA — GoTimeTraining.com may sound like some kind of Internet-only business, but personal trainers Shannon Dykman and his girlfriend, Kalene Smith, are set to open their new facility on Monday.
The two are opening a new 1,900-square-foot facility just north of Star Lumber at K-96 and Greenwich.
Clients can sign up for 12-week or 16-week training online. More traditional training is available as well along with boot camps.
WICHITA — Florida-based Body Central is opening a second Wichita store, this time in NewMarket Square at 21st and Maize Road.
The first Body Central, a clothing store that caters to young women, is at Towne East Square.
“Your part of the country has been very successful for us,” says Matt Swartwood, senior vice president of stores.
“We have a solid group of stores in Kansas City. We do some great business in Oklahoma.”
The chain also is in Topeka.
Swartwood describes the store as “junior fast fashion,” meaning it quickly turns whatever the latest fashions are for the junior set.
Competitors include Charlotte Russe, Forever 21 and Wet Seal.
The 4,000-square-foot store will open next to Carter’s at NewMarket Square.
April Reed of Slawson Cos. handled the deal.
If all goes well, look for the store to open in August.
“We just see this as part of filling in the market,” Swartwood says. “We’re just awfully excited to come to your city with another store.”