Good and not-so Good news for the Wichita, KS area - 04/29/09 10:35 AM
Good and not-so Good news for the Wichita, KS area
April, 2009
 
Peter Greenberg, the travel editor for "Today's show" and the Newsmax Magazine, based in Florida, have named Wichita, KS the Number 1 city for Best American Values. Wichita ranked high in the following areas: Family friendliness, culture, wholesomeness, devotion to religion and community activities.  Hospitality and friendly businesses came in next.  We were rated lowest in scenic beauty (it is very flat here) and education (the new $300 million dollar bond issue) should help here.
 
Kansas City and Edmond, OK were the only other Midwest cities rated.
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Wichita, KS was a highly ranked city in 2008. - 04/04/09 04:24 PM
Wichita was a highly ranked city in 2008
  
Wichita, KS for most of 2008 outpaced the rest of the nation in the quality of its real estate market, job increases and local private and public building projects.  The economy started catching up with Wichita in the 3rd quarter and buy the 1st quarter of 2009 lay-offs increased the local unemployment rate to 6% and there for slowed down real estate sales.
 
Before all that happened Wichita has received many accolades in 2008
U-haul ranked us the #1 city for inbound moves Wichita is once again an All-American City Finalist … (0 comments)

Wichita, KS Spring Real Estate update for 2009 - 04/03/09 10:29 AM
1st Quarter, 2009
Real Estate & Economic report for the
Wichita, KS metro area
 
Another Round of lay offs in the aviation industry was announced this week in Wichita, KS.  In addition, there will be two to three companies doing furloughs for two to three weeks this summer.  Total lay offs in the Aviation industry announced or all ready done exceed 10,000 workers.  This will be a total employment impact of 20,000 plus workers before the end of the year.
 
Before last fall, Wichita had seemed to be immune from the financial hardships of other areas of the country.  … (0 comments)

 
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