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Friends University to purchase, renovate buildings in Delano<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/friends%20university%20building*100.jpg?v=1'>The Friends University art department will move off campus next year following the $3.5 million purchase and planned renovation of the historic Farmers State Bank building in the Delano District.
Friends President T.J. Arant announced Thursday afternoon that the university is purchasing the building at 930 W. Douglas and a connected warehouse space at 122 N. Walnut. The money is coming from the university?s capital reserve funds. The buildings sit at the northeast corner of Walnut and Douglas,...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Boyd-Peninsula deal won?t affect state?s stake in Kansas Star Casino<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/print-edition/kansas%20star%20casino%20construction*100.jpg?v=1'>The state of Kansas and local governments shouldn?t notice any change after the planned acquisition later this year of Peninsula Gaming LLC, which operates the Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane.
Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming Corp. announced Wednesday that it has an agreement to buy Dubuque, Iowa-based Peninsula in a deal valued at $1.45 billion. Peninsula operates four other casinos, too, with a pair each in Iowa and Louisiana.
Peninsula operates the casino on behalf of the Kansas Lottery, which owns...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Hawker Beechcraft finds sales success at EBACE<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/hawker-beechcraft-blue-logo-web*100.jpg?v=1'>Hawker Beechcraft Corp. on Thursday said it secured a total of 11 sales, worth more than $120 million, at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition.
The orders include three orders for its Hawker 4000 business jet, six King Air 350i orders, and orders for one Hawker 400XPR and one King Air 250.
?EBACE 2012 has been an inspiring show for us, underscoring that this region of the world is important to the growth of business aviation and that Hawker Beechcraft has highly sought aircraft...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Analysts see Chevron as top potential Chesapeake buyer<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/chevron-logo-315*100.jpg?v=1'>Chesapeake Energy Corp. has come under fire recently for its financial structure, but that doesn?t mean there would be a shortage of companies interested in buying the energy giant.
And the top candidate, according to a report from the Financial Times, could be Chevron Corp.
Other candidates could include France-based Total and BHP Billiton of Australia. Investor Carl Icahn is also mentioned as a potential buyer, as are Devon Energy, Apache Corp. and Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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</div>Meet the small-business contenders in Social Madness<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/socialmadness/abode%20venue*100.jpg?v=1'>The nomination period has drawn to a close, and we?re ready to kick off our Social Madness competition, sponsored by Spark Business from Capital One, on June 1.
But before tip-off, it?s time to meet our competitors. Participants in the contest are broken into three categories based on number of employees:
? Small (fewer than 100 employees)
? Medium (100 to 499 employees)
? Large (500 or more employees)
Today we?ll feature the small-business competitors. Click through the slideshow...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Southwest National Bank set to expand farther west<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/print-edition/1q%20banks_minard%20trish*100.jpg?v=1'>Southwest National Bank will open a new west-Wichita branch in July, taking over a location now held by Sunflower Bank.
Sunflower announced in January that it would close the location in mid-June.
Southwest National Bank ? which will lease the site at 8760 W. 21st St., at Tyler Road, from Builders Inc. ? takes possession of the building July 1 and hopes to move in by mid-month.
?As soon as we can, we?ll open,? says Trish Minard, president and CEO of Southwest National.
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</div>Friends University calls afternoon news conference for announcement in Delano District<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/friends-university-logo*100.jpg?v=1'>Friends University has scheduled a Thursday afternoon news conference to make a ?special university announcement? in the Delano District, west of downtown.
The news conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. at La Galette, a cafe at 1017 W. Douglas, near Seneca Street. However, it appears that the restaurant is just a meeting place and the actual announcement will take place nearby.
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</div>Wichita posts slight job increase for the year<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/news/0902-jobs-help-wanted-sign-stock-315*100.jpg?v=1'>Wichita has tended to lag behind the rest of the country in both entering and exiting recessions, and that trend appears to be continuing even as the metro area adds some jobs.
The area added about 1,900 jobs from March 2011 to March 2012, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That?s a 0.67 percent increase, and it puts Wichita?s growth rate at 73rd among the nation?s 100 largest metros, according to an analysis from On Numbers, a blog affiliated with the Wichita Business...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Wind turbine to be installed at Halstead High SchoolFor the second time this week, a wind turbine is being installed at an area high school.
Westar Energy?s Green Team is set to install a 2.4-kilowatt wind turbine at Halstead High School.
The turbine will be located on the northwest corner of the front side of the high school, at 520 W. Sixth in Halstead.
The turbine is part of Kansas State University?s Kansas Wind for Schools program, which selects schools across the state to receive a small wind turbine for educational and outreach purposes....<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Kansas Star Casino a highlight of Boyd's Peninsula Gaming purchase<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/print-edition/kansas%20star%20casino%20construction2*100.jpg?v=1'>Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming is picking up five casino properties with its $1.45 billion purchase of Peninsula Gaming, but Boyd CEO Keith Smith called the Kansas Star Casino the "jewel" of the Peninsula portfolio.
The Wichita Business Journal reports the casino began operating in Mulvane in December, but additional phases, including a hotel, a larger casino and an equestrian facility, remain in the works. Smith said the property had great potential as "a significant growth opportunity" for his company.<div class="feedflare">
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Health care, economy top concerns of Bay Area small business, Bank of America survey says
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/Shanks,Emily_supl*100.jpg?v=1'>Bay Area small business owners' greatest concerns center on health care costs, credit availability and a recovery in consumer spending, according to Bank of America's inaugural survey of small business owners that the bank plans to conduct twice a year.
On an optimistic note, BofA's (NYSE: BAC) survey found Bay Area small business owners are more confident about prospects for the local economy than their counterparts in other markets surveyed.
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Caveat crowdfunder! California warns investors to beware
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/California_state_flag*100.jpg?v=1'>Though the Internet has made raising money for business ideas very easy, California's government has warned investors to be "extremely cautious about crowdfunding."
"Unfortunately, the potential for fraud is significant," said Jan Lynn Owen, commissioner of California's department of corporations.
Crowdfunding is a way for many small businesses or creative people like artists, musicians or film makers to easily raise capital by soliciting small amounts from lots of people. (The Business Times will...<div class="feedflare">
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Bank of America shuttered 154 branches in Q1
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/charlotte/bofa%20moynihan%20315*100.jpeg?v=1'>Bank of America says it closed 154 branches and eliminated 631 ATMs as it sought to improve efficiency as more customers embrace online and mobile banking, the bank told the Securities and Exchange Commission this month.
After accounting for new branch openings, the bank had a net reduction of 51 branches in the first quarter, according to a report this week from SNL Financial, a research firm.
California's largest bank operates about 5,700 branches and 17,250 ATMs nationwide.
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Red Bull could fill America's Cup with cool
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/red%20bull%20am%20cup*100.jpg?v=3'>San Franciscans love a party.
Blow up some fireworks. Pump loud music in the streets. Blaze klieg lights outside a theater.
These are the kinds of things that pique our curiosity, draw us out of our homes and to where the action is.
Yacht racing won't do that -- not for long stretches of time such as the July to September period in 2013 when dozens of races will be held in San Francisco Bay to determine the boat that will challenge for the America's Cup.
A big party? That's another story.
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U.S. puts 30% tariff on solar panels
The United States is sticking it to Chinese solar panel makers and will enforce tariffs of 30 percent or more on equipment manufactured there and sold into the United States.
The U.S. Commerce Department decided to impose the tariffs, which are in addition to a 2.9 percent to 4.73 percent already imposed in March ? and the new tariffs will be retroactively applied 90 days.
"(The Department of) Commerce has now confirmed that Chinese manufacturers are guilty of illegally dumping solar cells and...<div class="feedflare">
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Facebook prices stock at $38
Facebook priced its shares Friday at $38, giving the company a valuation of more than $100 billion, and the stock will start trading Friday morning on the NASDAQ under the symbol FB.
The world?s largest social networking Web site raised $16 billion at the price, which was above the initial $28 to $35 share price the company had initially sought. Of that, $6.84 billion will go to Facebook, while $9.16 billion will go to selling stockholders.<div class="feedflare">
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Big Hewlett-Packard layoffs rumored
Huge layoffs could be coming to Hewlett-Packard Co., according to rumors that are being widely reported Thursday.
Numbers being thrown around range as high as 35,000 -- according to Business Insider, which cited an unnamed source -- but HP (NYSE: HPQ) has not provided any confirmation or details.
HP's stock is down by more than half from what it was in early 2011, and the company employed a whopping 349,600 employees as of October 31, 2011, notes 24/7 Wall Street Wire.
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UC Berkeley to consolidate HR, admin staff at West Berkeley site
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/Cal_Campanile_Yellow_Roses*100.jpg?v=1'>The University of California, Berkeley picked a site at Cedar and Fourth streets in the West Berkeley flatlands for a "shared services" center that will handle consolidated personnel, finance, research administration and information technology work now done in 200 separate places on the campus.
This new center, near Berkeley's Fourth Street shopping district, is "projected to generate significant savings for the campus," the university said.
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Heller Manus settles into its new office under the Transamerica Tower
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/Heller_Manus5*100.JPG?v=5'>Heller Manus Architects has debuted its new digs in the shadow of the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco.
The architecture firm took an unusual space for its new headquarters at 600 Montgomery St., which formerly housed restaurants.
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The space has been empty since 2002 when Redwood Park closed.
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Ross raises the roof on earnings guidance, seeks 1,300 more stores
Discount clothing seller Ross Stores Inc. raised its guess about this year's earnings after sales and profit grew in the first quarter ended April 28.
The Pleasanton company (NASDAQ: ROST) now thinks it is likely to earn $3.26 to $3.37 a share for the year ending Feb. 2, 2013, up from an earlier guess of $3.12 to $3.27 per share.
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Post Holdings postpones results following Ralcorp?s delay
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/Stiritz,-William2*100.jpg?v=1'>Post Holdings Inc., which was spun off in February from Ralcorp Holdings, said late Wednesday that it has delayed the release of its earnings for the second fiscal quarter of 2012.
The delay follows Ralcorp's announcement Tuesday that it has delayed the release date for its fiscal second-quarter earnings for the second time this month, citing its ongoing investigation into accounting errors found in earlier results.
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Urban League President James Buford to retire next year
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/buford_james_2011*100.jpg?v=1'>James Buford, who has been president and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis for 27 years, will retire in the middle of 2013, he said today at a meeting of the league?s board of directors.
Board Chair Debra Denham will appoint a search committee to seek local and national candidates to fill Buford?s position.
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St. Louis adds 2,900 jobs during past year
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/SaintLouisArchGatewayWeb*100.jpg?v=1'>The St. Louis metropolitan area added 2,900 nonfarm jobs from March 2011 to March 2012, an increase of 0.23 percent.
The St. Louis area employed 1.3 million people as of March this year. The metro area's small percentage growth in the past year ranks it 85th of the 100 largest metro areas, according to an On Numbers analysis of the latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
All but 14 of the nation?s biggest metro areas added jobs during the past 12 months.
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Scott Credit Union pledges $100,000 for new St. Joseph?s Hospital
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/ScottCreditUnion_Promo*100.jpg?v=1'>Scott Credit Union has pledged $100,000 over the next five years to support the new St. Joseph?s Hospital being built on Route 160 at Troxler Avenue in Highland, Ill.
The new building is about a mile north of the current 64-year-old hospital it will replace.
Construction recently began on the new 91,000-square-foot facility, which is scheduled to be complete in the summer of 2013. The $60 million medical campus will include a 25-bed critical access hospital and medical office buildings.
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Nominate your rising star for 30 Under 30 awards
With just over 24 hours remaining in the nomination process, more than 110 individuals are vying for a spot on this year?s 30 Under 30 awards list. The nomination period will close at midnight tomorrow (Friday, May 18), so this truly is your last chance to recognize an up-and-coming star in your industry.
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Concord Bank CEO Tony Feraro dies at 64
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/print-edition/2010/11/19/Feraro,-tony_web*100.jpg?v=1'>Tony Feraro, 64, the president and CEO of Concord Bank, died Wednesday afternoon, according to a statement the bank released today.
Feraro joined the bank as president and chief executive in November 2008. He previously had worked as chief executive of Silvergate Bank in La Jolla, Calif., since 2006. Previously he had been a bank consultant and had served as chief executive of Unity Bank Corp. in Clinton, N.J. Feraro had worked in St. Louis from 1984 to 1995 as president of a division of ITT Financial.
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Alton Telegraph to be sold to Versa Capital Management
Officials from Irvine, Calif.-based Freedom Communications Inc. said today that they reached an agreement to sell the Telegraph in Alton and three other newspapers to an affiliate of Versa Capital Management LLC.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The sale is expected to close within the next 30 days, and all employees will transition to the new company, Freedom Communications said.
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Enterprise Holdings acquires Mint Cars On-Demand
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/baltimore/blog/Enterprise-Rent-a-car*100.jpg?v=1'>Enterprise Holdings has acquired New York City-based Mint Cars On-Demand, a car-sharing company serving more than 8,000 members in New York City and Boston. Financial terms of the transaction, which closed today, were not disclosed.
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Stillman's Blues group raised $72 million to buy team
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MEMC CFO Murphy resigns, Wuebbels named successor
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. said Wednesday that its chief financial officer, Mark Murphy, resigned effective immediately to return to Praxair Inc. , and that Brian Wuebbels has been named executive vice president and CFO to succeed Murphy, the St. Louis Business Journal reports. Murphy, who is leaving to become president of Praxair Surface Technologies, will work with MEMC in a consulting role to assist in the transition.<div class="feedflare">
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