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• Kansas has its 10th straight week of at least 10,000 unemployment claims

  04-06-2020 14:48 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The reopening of most Kansas businesses closed by Covid-19 prevention orders didn't keep the state from experiencing a 10th straight week of jobless claims reaching above 10,000.For the week ending May 30, 10,429 Kansans filed initial unemployment claims with the Kansas Department of Labor, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.While it's the lowest number during the 10-week pandemic period, the figure still shows the effect coronavirus continues to have on the&h
  
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• WPD says it's being 'proactive' in communication with Wichita businesses caught in middle of protests

  04-06-2020 00:02 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  If businesses decide to close in preparation for protests in the area,"that's really on their own accord," WPD says.
  
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• What Wichita businesses need to know about looting insurance coverage

  03-06-2020 22:23 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  Coverage could be more cut and dry with property damage than it was with stay-at-home orders related to Covid-19.
  
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• Exploration Place says windows were damaged by gunfire overnight

  03-06-2020 21:29 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Workers at Exploration Place on Wednesday morning found seven windows on the southeast side of the museum had been broken by gunfire and that an outdoor kiosk had been damaged.The news, shared in a tweet from the museum Wednesday afternoon, comes after the third night of demonstrations in Wichita protesting police brutality and the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died after being held on the ground by a police officer's knee pressed against his neck.Some of the protests have turne
  
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• One of Wichita's theater chains warns it may have to permanently close its doors

  03-06-2020 19:48 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The Leawood-based entertainment giant entered the Wichita market in early 2018.
  
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• Wichita QuikTrip location returns to normal after being looted

  03-06-2020 14:30 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Protestors returned to 21st and Arkansas for a third straight night after many started protesting Tuesday at 21st and Maize Road.
  
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• Attention Kansas colleges: This school is coming to eat your lunch

  02-06-2020 22:59 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  SNHU's president said new programs, combined with an unprecedented emphasis on remote learning in the age of Covid-19, should turbocharge it's already torrid growth.
  
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• Analyst: Aerospace supply chain not out of the layoff woods

  02-06-2020 22:25 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  If Boeing and Airbus continue to scale down commercial operations, suppliers that can't offset with work from other sectors will be forced to follow suit.
  
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• Bel Aire disaster response company secures tax relief for construction of new headquarters

  02-06-2020 21:36 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Wichita City Council voted unanimously to issue industrial revenue bonds for no more than $2.89 million to construct Advance Catastrophe Technologies' new 20,000 square-foot facility.
  
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• Save Century II group 500 signatures away from reaching goal for petition drive

  02-06-2020 21:05 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Supporters behind an effort to save Century II from destruction are closing in on reaching the 12,500 signatures they need to put a measure on the ballot this November.
  
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• Heldman retiring from Wichita State University

  02-06-2020 00:57 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Lou Heldman is retiring from Wichita State University.He has been with the school for 13 years, the last six of which he served as vice president of strategic communications.  An article on his retirement on the university’s website doesn’t provide a specific date, but says that it will be this month.Heldman says in the report that he intends to stay in Wichita, but also plans to travel, garden and take classes in art and history. “It’s not headline news wh
  
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• There are no more restrictions, but some Wichita bars take a more measured approach to reopening

  01-06-2020 22:28 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Some business owners say they are still taking it slow — and that reopening is often not as simple as it sounds.
  
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• Report: Airbus discussing new production plans

  01-06-2020 21:29 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Airbus is reportedly set for internal meetings this week that could result in more concrete plans about its future aircraft production. According to a report from Bloomberg, the European manufacturer will be considering adjustments on its narrow-body A320 passenger jet as it continues to align operations with the fallout in demand from Covid-19. An Airbus spokesperson declined to comment on the report, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the planned talks. While those source
  
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• Wichita's bike-share provider tells riders it's leaving town

  01-06-2020 21:06 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Wichita's 3-year-old bike-share program is pedaling away.Zagster is pulling its bicycles and stations out of Wichita and its hundreds of programs around the nation, telling users in an email Monday that Covid-19 has adversely affected the company's business.The company said it was disabling accounts immediately and asked questions be directed to [email protected] Accounts had been suspended during the pandemic.City transit director Mike Tann said he was notified by Zagster of the decision&hel
  
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• Changes in Wichita State's new business school building include a heftier price tag

  01-06-2020 20:53 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Woolsey Hall will be Wichita State's new home to the Barton School of Business. Its $50 million price tag has increased, the dean of the school said Monday.
  
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• Southwest CEO eyes 737 MAX return by fourth quarter

  01-06-2020 20:07 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Gary Kelly calls the MAX a superior aircraft to the 737s Southwest currently operates.
  
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• Overwhelmed by PPP? Here's the expert advice you need

  30-05-2020 07:14 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The Paycheck Protection Program from the U.S. Small Business Administration opened its loan application on April 3. The two months since have been a whirlwind for American small businesses in need of federal relief after Covid-19 decimated their businesses and forced furloughs and layoffs of employees.What a wild two months. Varying degrees of success by banks, nationally and in Wichita. Indecision by business owners as to whether they should apply — the payroll relief would be essential f
  
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• Wichita Business Journal parent company joins lawsuit seeking PPP data

  29-05-2020 22:19 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Wichita Business Journal parent company American City Business Journals has joined The Washington Post and nine other news outlets in a lawsuit against the Small Business Administration that seeks detailed information about the $659 billion Paycheck Protection Program.The Post, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, ProPublica and The New York Times filed the lawsuit on May 12.
  On Friday, American City Business Journals, ABC, CNN, NBC, the Associated Press and the Center for Investigative Reporting were added&he
  
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• ICM aviation business plans future upgrades at Eisenhower Airport

  29-05-2020 20:42 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The city says the company has invested more than $1 million in the property since 2015 and now plans "substantial additional capital improvements."
  
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• 2 months in self-isolation, 9 downtown construction projects: Here's what you've missed

  29-05-2020 19:28 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Construction crews are making tons of progress on nine high-profile projects.
  
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• Covid-19 doesn’t derail depositions in former CEO lawsuit against Spirit AeroSystems

  29-05-2020 19:20 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A $50 million lawsuit brought by former CEO Larry Lawson saw a number of important depositions in the past several weeks.
  
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• Players who would've made up first Wind Surge team will receive pay through August

  29-05-2020 18:51 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Though a minor-league baseball season isn't expected to happen in 2020 because of Covid-19, players who would've made up the first Wichita Wind Surge Triple-A team will be paid through the regular-season calendar.The Miami Marlins, the major-league parent of the Wind Surge, will continue to pay its minor-league players a minimum of $400 weekly through August. Miami is the first club to commit to league-mandated payments that far. Some clubs have said they will pay through other summer months, wh
  
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• Disney World and SeaWorld to reopen soon. Here's when and how.

  29-05-2020 17:13 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The theme park giants aim to reopen as soon as possible, while other regional attractions already have begun to welcome guests back.
  
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• American Dreams Disrupted: Small-business owners fighting to survive

  29-05-2020 14:37 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A truism of history is that the more time passes, the more we forget about the toils, triumphs and sacrifices of those who endured.We forget when time draws our focus away from the millions who persevered in anonymity, turning it back to the era’s hallowed names and faces, however deserving. Left fading in the footnotes is the human toll — the stories of loss, hope and redemption — that brings gravity and dignity to the retelling of the most defining moments of the time.Another
  
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• List analysis: Lobbyist spending went up 66% in 2019, but what happens after Covid-19?

  29-05-2020 12:00 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Spending was actually up 66% year over year among the 25 largest lobbyist groups ranked in the Wichita Business Journal's most recent list.
  
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• BizTalk with Bill Roy Episode 157: Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly

  29-05-2020 11:49 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly says the input and advice of business leaders all over the state helped her make tough decisions about which parts of the economy to close and how to start reopening.
  The phones were busy as she had to decide when to close schools, when to impose a safe-at-home order and as she formulated her Ad Astra plan to get the economy back open.
  She says she welcomed, instead of dreaded, the input.During Episode 157, Kelly discusses how those decisions were made, how she dealt&hell
  
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• Wichita businessman with $100M in real estate transactions joins J.P. Weigand & Sons

  28-05-2020 22:39 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  J.P. Weigand & Sons' newest addition is a Wichita man with 36 years experience in commercial real estate and business ventures.
  
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• New tenant secured for adaptive reuse of former east-side Hooters spot

  28-05-2020 22:07 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  When it's finished late this summer, the building at 3151 N. Rock Road will have an entirely new look and a new anchor tenant.
  
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• Southwest Airlines to Denver coming for Wichita in December

  28-05-2020 21:34 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The carrier will join two other airlines in offering service from Wichita to the Mile High City.
  
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• Spirit gives back gains after jumping on Boeing 737 MAX restart

  28-05-2020 21:15 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Shares of Wichita's largest publicly traded company hit their highest level in weeks early Thursday.
  
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• New book from Charles Koch expected this fall

  28-05-2020 19:52 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Charles Koch has a new book coming this fall that he says will focus on what can happen when many are empowered and not just a few. Titled “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for A Top-Down World,” the book will be released in November and is co-authored by Brian Hooks, CEO of the Koch-founded Stand Together nonprofit. A synopsis of the forthcoming work on Amazon says what the authors believe is a needed paradigm shift in society starts with empowering people throughout
  
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• We live in interesting times. We are living history.

  28-05-2020 00:46 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Phil Graham, former president and publisher of The Washington Post, described journalism as the "first rough draft of history."I share that feeling and feel that responsibility now. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has touched everyone. Some have felt it more than others.The Wichita Business Journal staff has been working, under difficult circumstances, to tell stories that provide our readers with the information they need during these historic times to make the best decisions possible&
  
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• Surviving a WAVE of uncertainty: While local event venues remain closed during Covid-19, owners are lobbying for financial relief changes.

  28-05-2020 00:23 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  While local event venues like WAVE remain closed during the Covid-19 outbreak, owners are lobbying lawmakers to change financial relief requirements.
  
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• Maintaining the magic: Iconic Wichita restaurant won't look the same after Covid-19, but some parts will never change

  28-05-2020 00:22 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  When Doo-Dah does open its doors in June, things will be different, but they'll also be the same.
  
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• Do the right thing: Equity leaders base decisions on what's worked in bank history

  28-05-2020 00:22 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Equity Bank's ascension as a community bank has been tested during Covid-19. Its leaders think they've been in front of tough decisions for employees and customers.
  
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• Survive and advance: 3P Processing buckles down as pandemic pinches aviation

  28-05-2020 00:21 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  CEO Terry Karst has had to quickly adapt to a changing aerospace landscape created by Covid-19 that's generated both wins and losses.
  
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• Kelly vetoes Legislature's bill, puts Covid-19 decisions in counties' hands

  26-05-2020 23:38 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  In issuing a new pandemic declaration, governor says she won't succumb to legislative bullying and calls House and Senate back into session June 3.
  
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• Koch puts $200M into home rental side of Amherst Holdings

  26-05-2020 22:19 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Real estate investment firm Amherst has more than 20,000 homes nationwide.
  
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• Exide bankruptcy threatens nearly 1,000 Kansas jobs

  26-05-2020 21:39 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The Georgia-based battery maker filed Chapter 11 last week and put its North American operations on the market.
  
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• Wichita's last remaining Taco Bueno location appears closed for good

  26-05-2020 21:32 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The phone lines to the fast-food restaurant are no longer in service and despite signs on the windows saying the drive-through is open, other signs say "closed" with no signs of operations.
  
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• KCK's Great Wolf Lodge joins hundreds of hotels under cash pressure from pandemic

  26-05-2020 21:09 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A $1.7 billion loan backed by 17 Great Wolf Resorts Inc. hotels and water parks was flagged for concerns after the borrower said the pandemic could create cash flow challenges.
  
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• Soon-to-be Spirit AeroSystems plant damaged in Belfast fire

  26-05-2020 20:56 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Current owner Bombardier expects "minimal" delivery disruption due to the blaze.
  
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• Newly reopened Kansas Star Casino warns of potential job cuts

  26-05-2020 18:42 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Boyd Gaming has provided the state with a range of possible layoff totals that may be necessary.
  
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• Merged CPA firms are new tenant at downtown building with a storied past

  26-05-2020 18:24 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Now operating under the Adams Brown name, the two merged firms are leasing the first and second floors for its 55 employees.
  
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• Trio of Wichita mobile-home parks sell to California investor

  26-05-2020 15:26 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Three Wichita mobile-home parks have been sold by California-based Park Street Partners to a California buyer. Capstone Manufactured Housing, with headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., represented the seller in the $20 million deal.The three mobile-home parks have a total of 829 sites. Lamplighter, at 2320 E. MacArthur Road, has 500 sites. River Oaks, 1944 E. 54th Street South, has 275; Fishin', at 2201 S. Anna Street, has 54.Kevin Enger, Ian Hilpl and Brian Hummell of Capstone represented Park Stree
  
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• Wichita airport ridership nearly disappeared in April amid Covid-19

  22-05-2020 22:49 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  With air travel decimated globally by Covid-19, the passenger count at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport was down 95% in April compared to the same period in 2019. According to data published by the airport Friday afternoon, only 7,393 passengers flew in and out of Eisenhower last month. More than 136,000 did in April 2019. Following the March and April declines due to the pandemic, traffic for the year was down 36% to 332,014 passengers through the first four months of 202
  
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• Poll shows only half of PPP borrowers anticipate loan forgiveness

  22-05-2020 22:39 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A nationwide poll of its members by the National Federation of Independent Business shows that nearly half of small businesses anticipate they will not get full forgiveness for their Paycheck Protection Program loans.
  
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• With travel industry suffering, Visit Wichita lays off eight staff members

  22-05-2020 22:18 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Many hotels in the Wichita area have been closed for long portions of the pandemic. It could be some time before the travel and tourism industry returns to full strength.
  
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• With travel industry suffering, Visit Wichita lays off eight in management team

  22-05-2020 22:18 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Many hotels in the Wichita area have been closed for long portions of the pandemic. It could be some time before the travel and tourism industry returns to full strength.
  
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• Logistics company lays off more workers in Wichita

  22-05-2020 22:14 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The company laid off more than 250 people in January.
  
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