Tommy’s Restaurant & Lounge for sale

Aug. 26, 201010:54 a.m.

WICHITA — Want to own a piece of Wichita history? Now you can.

Tommy D’Annunzio is selling his Tommy’s Restaurant & Lounge at 21st and Tyler.

“I’m 62 years old,” he says. “I’ve been in the business 40-some years.”

He’s had Tommy’s for 20 years. Before that, he had a couple of restaurants, including Tom & Sonny’s with his friend Sonny Glennon, who now is a co-owner of Scotch & Sirloin.

Tommy’s seats almost 300.

D’Annunzio is trying to sell the restaurant. The lease at the space is separate.

Lewis Kelley and Gary Snyder of Landmark Commercial Real Estate are handling the sale of the business.

D’Annunzio can’t say what he’ll do next.

“I don’t know. I’m still here, so it’s hard to say.”

And if it doesn’t sell?

“I don’t know. I’ll be here.”

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Tyler Office Park to locate near Douglas and Tyler

July 7, 20106:13 p.m.

WICHITA — Dale Walker of Midwest Insurance Agency is working on plans for a new 4,500-square-foot Tyler Office Park near the northwest corner of Douglas and Tyler.

“It’s at the architect’s right now, so we’ll probably get started in the next couple of weeks,” Walker says.

He currently leases space for his office at 4715 W. Central.

Walker plans to move his office to 1,500 square feet at his new property.

He’ll have two more 1,500-square-foot spaces to lease, or he’ll lease the entire remaining 3,000 square feet to one tenant.

Don Piros of Landmark Commercial Real Estate represented Walker in the transaction.

Landmark’s David Leyh and Gary Snyder represented the seller.

Mike Love Construction is the builder.

“I just want to own my own office building,” Walker says.

He’s not sure how easy it will be to find tenants.

“That’s a tough question. In this economy, I don’t really know what to expect.”

Walker has owned office buildings in the past.

And with construction costs down, he says it makes it easier to build.

“This is as good of time as any.”

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Cleary, Wagle, Soderberg and West, a new group of attorneys, to lease Landmark Commercial Real Estate building space

May 19, 20106:00 a.m.

WICHITA — A new lease at the Landmark Commercial Real Estate building at First and Emporia will bring the building to 100 percent occupancy.

Landmark and 1Point LLC have 7,920 square feet of the Old Town space, which Landmark renovated and moved into in 2007.

A new group of independent lawyers are forming an entity — not a law firm — to share the remaining 3,912 square feet on the building’s first floor.

The new group is Cleary, Wagle, Soderberg and West, which includes Mike Cleary, Karen Barry West, Jennifer Wagle, Ann Gottberg Soderberg and Stephen Turley.

Floodman, Wagle and West has been sharing space at 323 N. Market for more than four years.

With the new entity, West says the group needs more room. She says there are a lot of things they like about the Landmark building, including that the group will be easily accessible on the first floor with plenty of parking not far from courthouses.

“We need to be able to get in the car and go, and so that was very appealing,” West says.

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Menards signs deal to locate at Paul Jackson’s Stonebridge development at 37th and Maize Road

April 22, 20105:58 p.m.

WICHITA — As expected, Wichita has landed its second Menards store.

Developer Paul Jackson today signed a deal with the Wisconsin-based company to anchor his Stonebridge development at the southeast corner of 37th and Maize Road.

This follows Christian Ablah’s deal earlier this month for Menards to locate at his development at K-96 and Webb Road.

“These are big, big deals,” Jackson says. “It’s a real shot of confidence they’re opening two stores of this size in Wichita.”

Jackson and Ablah were close to final deals with Menards, which is a home-improvement store, in late 2008 when the economy tanked.

Even though there are continual signs of improvement, Jackson says the Menards deals are still a coup.

“Big box developments are just not happening around the country right now,” he says. “Most big box developers have kind of pulled in the reins and put the brakes on until the economy turns around.”

The west-side Menards will be 230,000 square feet and employ about 165 people.

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