Kansas

Martens Companies-managed Best Western wins top hospitality honor

The Best Western Blackwell Inn, managed by Wichita, Kansas-based Martens Companies, received the Best Western Hotels & Resorts' Charmain's Award, the brand's highest honor for…

NAI Martens helps close sale of former American Red Cross building in Wichita

Thanks to the help of NAI Martens, Builders Inc. has purchased the former American Red Cross building at 1900 E. Douglas in Wichita, Kansas.

Newmark Grubb Zimmer closes sale of 17-building Lenexa Industrial Park

A joint venture between Prism Real Estate Services and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. has acquired the Lenexa Industrial Park portfolio in Lenexa, Kansas.

NAI Martens brokers 15-year lease agreement for Aldi’s in Wichita shopping center

NAI Martens has brokered a 15-year lease agreement between the owners of Sweetbriar Shopping Center in Wichita, Kansas, and Aldi. John O'Rourke and Nathan Farha…

MissouriRetail

Lane4 report: No retail apocalypse in Kansas City

The words “retail apocalypse" generate plenty of dire press. But Lane4 Property Group says that there's no doomsday scenario playing out in the Kansas City…

Baceline Investments sells 37,000-square-foot retail center in Kansas

Baceline Investments, LLC, a boutique private equity real estate investment and management company, recently acquired Piper Plaza, a 37,624-square-foot neighborhood shopping center in Kansas City,…

Block & Company brings fitness center to Kansas strip building

Block & Company, Inc., Realtors helped bring a Planet Fitness to 9331 Quivira Road in Overland Park, Kansas.

MidwestMultifamily

Apartment rents kept rising in 2017

The number of people renting apartments fell in 2017, the first time this population has seen a decrease in 13 years, another sign that the…

Newmark Grubb Zimmer sells medical office building in Kansas

The Newmark Grubb Zimmer team of Michael VanBuskirk, Justin Beal and Chris Robertson brokered the sale of a Class-A 8,400-square-foot multi-tenant medical office building at…

Surviving the retail apocalypse: Polsinelli experts offer a guide

By now, the headlines are familiar: Brick-and-mortar is dying, crushed by Amazon and the ever-growing popularity of online shopping. And the numbers appear to back…