Tag: Sheryl Vickers

‘Invest with women we know’: This $1.4M wellness hub project is redeveloping one neighborhood from within 

By Tommy Felts / February 13, 2025

It’s an old real estate adage: “Buy the worst house in the best neighborhood.” Longtime Kansas City commercial broker Sheryl Vickers said it also applies to business properties, “one thousand percent.”  Like twin mid-century office buildings just over the Missouri/Kansas state line in Prairie Village.  “I drove by it, what a sad state,” said Vickers,…

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WIRED women Kansas City

WIRED together: How mentorship led 22 women to a million-dollar investment

By Tommy Felts / March 6, 2019

Collaboration among like-minded women forms a dangerous advantage, said Sheryl Vickers and Audrey Navarro. The duo helped found WIRED — Women in Real Estate Development — to foster mentorship and investment among women in the male-dominated and individualistic commercial real estate world. “We believe we have a leg up in the industry because that siloed,…

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Chris Goode, Ruby Jean's Kitchen & Juicery

Ruby Jean’s juices unity, entrepreneurism with Troost opening (Photos)

By Tommy Felts / November 11, 2017

Chris Goode is helping change what Troost Avenue means to Kansas City, pastor Stanley Archie said Saturday morning at the grand opening of Ruby Jean’s Kitchen & Juicery. Troost has been a place of division, he said, noting years of racial segregation along the corridor where those with a “permanent tan” weren’t welcome west of…

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Wonder lofts, Exact Architects

Wonder developers eye emerging businesses and creatives for Troost

By Tommy Felts / October 18, 2017

Business is brewing at the former Wonder Bread bakery. With a flurry of activity at 30th and Troost, the historic site is undergoing a transformation: from yet another vacant space on the corridor to an anchor for residential and commercial life on Troost. “They’ve gutted the inside and they’ve done a ton of work,” said…

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Ilan Salzberg and Caleb Buland, Wonder lofts on Troost

Troost revival: Can a brewpub, retail and 670 housing units mend racial divide?

By Tommy Felts / October 18, 2017

No turning back now, Ilan Salzberg said. “This is real,” the Wonder lofts developer laughed, gesturing at the freshly installed kitchen cabinetry and hardware in a model apartment unit at 30th Street and Troost Avenue. Wonder is expected to be the first of three major residential developments to open between 27th Street and Armour Boulevard…

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