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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West-side GoRun Wichita to expand

June 8, 20122:06 p.m.

WICHITA — Kevin Swinicki and Randy Mijares are expanding their west-side GoRun Wichita at 2556 N. Maize Road less than two years after opening it.

“The store’s busier, and we just need a little more room for shoe fitting and apparel,” Swinicki says. “We’ll be basically almost doubling it.”

The store currently is in 1,400 square feet and is expanding into the former Game X Change space for a total of about 2,500 square feet.

The expansion isn’t necessarily to carry more lines, although GoRun has recently added Asics to its brands.

“We’re always constantly looking at new things to bring in,” Swinicki says.

A 2,800-square-foot east-side GoRun opened last year at the Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich. Swinicki says both stores are doing well.

“We just kind of see the health-and-fitness boom kind of coming about again,” Swinicki says. “The running community continues to grow.”

GoRun offers a couple of major training opportunities a year that culminate in a race.

“We do help with a lot of races,” Swinicki says.

He says he and Mijares consider themselves race partners instead of sponsors.

The GoRun expansion should be complete by July or early August.

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Innovative Vein Solutions expanding Winfield

Sept. 28, 20111:57 p.m.

WICHITA — Innovative Vein Solutions is expanding again.

Physician Paul Cheatum opened his first clinic in 2009 at the Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich.

About nine months ago, he expanded with a satellite office in Hutchinson. Next month, he’s adding one in Winfield at Winfield Medical Arts.

“We’ll be offering all of the normal services we offer here, particularly the varicose vein treatments and spider vein treatments,” Cheatum says. “Eventually we hope to take some aesthetic services down there as well.”

He’s planning to expand to western Kansas next year.

Cheatum says the expansions should save a lot of his customers a drive.

“It’s nice to be closer to them so they can get services more conveniently.”

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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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Weekend update, Have You Heard? style

Aug. 27, 20106:00 a.m.

WICHITA — A few businesses that Have You Heard? previously reported on are in various stages of opening or reopening.

– The newly remodeled Toys “R” Us store at 8011 E. Kellogg is having a grand reopening this weekend as it debuts the new Babies “R” Us store at the same site.

“This store format provides an exceptional shopping convenience for time-strapped parents, who are shopping for children of various ages,” spokeswoman Katelyn DeRogatis said when first telling us the news in May.

– The official grand opening won’t be until the weekend of Sept. 11, but Personally Yours is opening today at NewMarket Square at 21st and Maize Road.

Previously, the shop was at 21st and Tyler.

Linda Webb’s boutique for women and babies specializes in personalization of gifts through embroidery.

– Ron and Bonnie Fehr are opening the second Wichita PostNet on Sept. 1 at Auburn Pointe 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.

–Finally, Jan Munroe and her sister-in-law, Jo Degner, have opened their Material Girls Quilt Shoppe in the Travel Air Building in Delano.

In addition to retail sales, Material Girls will offer classes.

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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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Innovative Vein Solutions to open at Village at Greenwich

May 21, 20091:52 p.m.

legsWICHITA — The Village at Greenwich is leasing its final space in it first building at 21st and Greenwich.

Physician Paul Cheatum is opening Innovative Vein Solutions in about 3,000 square feet on June 1.

Cheatum is the former medical director and physician for New Leaf Vein and Aesthetics. He says New Leaf had a range of aesthetic and other services, and he was running out of space for his practice.

“I decided to move and open up my own place,” he says. “It won’t be nearly as focused on aesthetics.”

Cheatum will still do some aesthetics work, but mostly he’ll concentrate on phlebology.

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Richardson’s Custom Rx to move east-side store

May 21, 200911:25 a.m.

drugsRichardson’s Custom Rx Compounding Pharmacy is moving about a half mile east of its current location between Webb and Greenwich to the Village at Greenwich at 21st and Greenwich.

“It ended up to be a real attractive location,” Chris Richardson says of the area.

He likes “the frontage and the space that it gave us as well as the growth in that area.” Richardson also likes the growing medical sector near there.

The pharmacy will take 4,500 square feet in the development’s second building, which is half of the building’s space. Richardson says the move is an expansion from the east-side location’s 1,500 square feet. The 4,500 square feet matches the Richardson’s on the west side at 3510 N. Ridge.

Richardson’s is a strictly compounding pharmacy, meaning it uses multiple ingredients to create a final dosage. For instance, if a pediatric patient needs medicine that only comes in an adult dosage, Richardson’s can create it and even add flavoring that’s appealing to a child.

Richardson says there will be some changes with the new location — including a slight name change and some changes in services — which he’ll announce shortly before opening in late August or early September.

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