Perfection Pools to open retail location

WICHITA — For its first six years in business, Perfection Pools built and serviced pools along with servicing spas.

But the business has never had a retail component — until now.

“We’re just now opening up a retail store,” owner Danny Lang says.

The store will open Wednesday behind Sea Dreams and in front of Office This on East Harry.

Lang says he always planned a retail store, and the timing finally seems right.

“We’ve already got an existing client base, and I just want to be able to offer them a better service,” Lang says.

He’ll sell pool and spa equipment, chemicals, pumps, filters and parts. Customers can bring in water for analysis. And Lang now will begin selling Bullfrog hot tubs.

“Now I have a product to sell through the winter,” he says.

Lang likes the location for all the traffic that comes by.

At 2,500 square feet, the store isn’t huge, but that could change.

“This is probably my two-year plan,” Lang says.

Office This reaches 75 percent occupancy with two new tenants

WICHITA — Max Cole was not short on skeptics of his plans to convert the former Wichita Mall at 4031 E. Harry into Office This, a 400,000-square-foot facility that leases offices and conference rooms of all sizes.

But construction crews are busy readying two new spaces for tenants that will bring occupancy to 75 percent this summer.

That compares to about 1 percent two years ago when Cole first started leasing.

“It’s kind of getting cool,” he says.

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