Category Archives: Village at Greenwich

New retail center under construction at Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich

Feb. 7, 20135:00 a.m.

WICHITA — With the existing 21,000-square-foot retail center fully leased at the Village at Greenwich, a new one is now under construction.

“We need more space,” says Steve Wheeler, one of the developers of the northeast corner of 21st and Greenwich.

The new 10,000-square-foot retail center is along 21st Street just west of Community Bank. The other center is along Greenwich.

“We’re feeling pretty optimistic about the area,” Wheeler says. “We’re excited about the STAR bonds and the athletic center coming in, and we’re trying to stay in front of it and make sure we have space available when people want to be up there.”

He has a dozen more acres to develop there.

In addition to the retail centers, there’s also a Staybridge Suites there and a Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites under construction.

Wheeler says he’s “kind of pleased with the whole outlook on Greenwich right now.”

That wasn’t always the case.

“Things were moving along nice, and then in ’08 and ’09 things really slowed down,” he says. “It seems to be picking back up again.”

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Liquor Cabinet and Cigars & More coming to the Village at Greenwich

May 6, 201112:04 p.m.

WICHITA — A new liquor store and cigar shop are coming to the Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich.

Anisha Patel plans to open the Liquor Cabinet and Cigars & More in 3,000 square feet by Aug. 1.

“We’re going to try to push for before that,” she says.

Her brother, Jay, is doing a lot of the work to get the store ready.

Anisha Patel owns America’s Best Value Inn & Suites in Hesston. That’s kind of what inspired her to go into a new line of work.

“I want to try to trend away from a 24-hour business,” she says. “If someone doesn’t show up, you’re filling in that shift.”

She thinks the liquor store business will be more low key.

“Doesn’t require too much of a strain on the brain.”

Not that she’s giving up the hotel business.

“It’s what brought me my luck in life, so you don’t get rid of that.”

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GoRun Wichita to open second store at the Village at Greenwich

May 5, 20115:48 a.m.

WICHITA — Less than a year after opening their first GoRun Wichita at 2556 N. Maize Road, Kevin Swinicki and Randy Mijares are opening their second store.

“We have, after careful consideration . . . decided to open an east-side GoRun Wichita,” Swinicki says.

The new store will open in late July at the Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich.

“We’ve done better, actually, than expected,” Mijares says of the first store, which opened in October.

He says adding a second store is a customer-driven decision. Mijares says customers repeatedly asked when he and Swinicki would open an east-side store.

“Even though we never hinted to anybody that there would be an east-side store,” he says. “I don’t know where the assumption came from. I think it’s mostly because that’s been the dynamic in this town.”

At 3,000 square feet, the new store will be double the size of the west-side store.

Mijares says it’s always a risk to open a store, but in a community where runners may have been underserved, it’s less risky to open a running specialty shop than a store that is more reliant on the general economy.

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Anytime Fitness at Village at Greenwich closes

May 2, 20114:58 p.m.

WICHITA — The Anytime Fitness at the Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich has closed.

“We couldn’t hang in there anymore unfortunately,” says owner Lance McReynolds.

“We closed because we’re losing too much money.”

He opened in November 2007.

“The economy was bad right after we opened especially,” he says.

That wasn’t the main problem, McReynolds says.

“Wichita’s awful tough for small health clubs to begin with,” he says. “The YMCA’s just so powerful.”

He hoped to have more corporate memberships.

“That would have maybe pushed us through.”

McReynolds is reimbursing members who paid in advance.

“I think we’ve got everybody covered.”

McReynolds has another Anytime Fitness in St. Joseph, Mo., that he says does very well. He says that’s what enabled him to keep his Wichita club open as long as he did.

“It’s really depressing,” McReynolds says. “It was a really nice club.”

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PostNet to open second Wichita store

April 27, 20104:01 p.m.

WICHITA — Wichita’s second PostNet is going to open in a few months at Auburn Pointe, an Occidental Management property at 135th West and Maple.

Jim and Liz Anderson opened the first PostNet, a FedEx Office competitor, at the Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich in late 2008.

The Andersons are helping Ron and Bonnie Fehr open the west-side PostNet.

“We’re helping to grow the area in Kansas,” Liz Anderson says. “We want them to be successful. It’s all part of the program.”

Even though the Andersons opened at a tough time, they’ve had success.

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