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The long-vacant former Spaghetti Works building downtown soon will have a new owner. Eagle File photo BY CARRIE RENGERS After a long period of inactivity, it looks like there’s once again hope for the redevelopment of the former Spaghetti Works building downtown. Through their Seneca Property LLC, Brad Saville and Nick Esterline of Landmark Commercial Real Estate have an...

BY CARRIE RENGERS crengers@wichitaeagle.com   Wichita’s third Firehouse Subs opened on Monday. “It’s been kind of a soft opening, which has been fine with me,” says Andy Reece. He and his wife, Megan, own the Firehouse at Kellogg and Rock Road and the new one inRegency Lakes at 21st and Greenwich. “The design of the restaurant...

BY CARRIE RENGERS crengers@wichitaeagle.com   Rochelle Stroh first began working in restaurants at age 18 and eventually went into management for Chick-fil-A. Restaurant experience isn’t the biggest motivation for her new Ecclesia coffee shop, though. “God just really put it on my heart that I was supposed to be in ministry,” Stroh says. The more...

Thirty companies were honored this week at the Wichita Business Journal's 2015 Best Places to Work Awards, sponsored by Meritrust. The companies were finalists because they scored highest on employee engagement surveys taken by their staffs. Click on this link to see pictures from the event: http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/morning_call/2015/12/2015-best-places-to-work-awards-in-pictures.html?ana=e_wich_rdup&s=newsletter&ed=2015-12-03&u=SgADm8S%2F%2F2Mz%2BQUtSm%2FRdw05db5db9&t=1449171244    ...

Monday’s news that Marriott International is buying the Starwood hotel chain in a $12.2 billion deal didn’t faze hotelier Jim Korroch, who is helping Great Plains Ventures open a Starwood property in Wichita. “Starwood and Marriott have two of the very top … guest loyalty programs,” Korroch says. He says it’s huge that Starwood guests will...