Category: Lifetime Achievement Award

Rod Stewart is the 2013 recipient of the Kansas CCIM Chapter and WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his many contributions to the local commercial real estate industry, to the Kansas CCIM Chapter and to the community of Wichita. Mr. Stewart has been a licensed commercial real estate broker involved…

David Burk is the 2012 recipient of the Kansas CCIM chapter and WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his vision and dedication to the renewal of downtown Wichita. Mr. Burk is a licensed architect, planner and developer specializing in historic renovations and public private partnerships. Originally from Iowa, Dave came…

Herb Krumsick is the 2011 recipient of the Kansas CCIM chapter and WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Krumsick is a legend in Wichita’s commercial real estate circles, having brokered, bought and/or sold more than $1 billion of real estate investments during his 45+ years in the industry. Highly sought after as…

Steve Clark is the 2010 recipient of the Kansas CCIM chapter and WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1960, Mr. Clark became the youngest licensed real estate salesperson in Kansas at age 18.  Since that time he has been active as an appraiser, licensed general contractor, property manager, and developer of offices,…

Nestor and Michael Weigand, brothers at the helm of Wichita’s oldest residential and commercial real estate company, have been named the 2009 recipients of the Kansas CCIM chapter and WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award. Nestor Weigand has been has been an active real estate professional for more than 45 years.  He is…

Jack DeBoer began his career selling real estate during the summers while in high school in Kalamazoo, MI. After graduating from high school, he attended Michigan State University where he graduated with a business degree in 1952. Following two years as a Military Police Officer in the Korean War, he returned to Michigan to team…

By Bill Wilson, The Wichita Eagle George Ablah, the man credited with helping drive east Wichita’s development, was honored Friday with the Kansas Certified Commercial Investment Member chapter’s third Lifetime Achievement Award. Ablah, 78, was presented with artwork during the chapter’s annual December banquet at Crestview Country Club. He joins Colby Sandlian and Jack Hunt…

By Lainie Mazzullo, the Wichita Business Journal Jack Hunt’s life story reads like a fiction novel. He was raised an orphan, mauled and nearly killed by a bear as an adult, received a Purple Heart during World War II, became a private pilot and was once again nearly killed after he rolled his truck atop…

By Lainie Mazzullo, the Wichita Business Journal Longtime Wichita developer, Colby Sandlian was honored last month with a lifetime achievement award for his work in the local and national real estate industry. Sandlian, owner of Sandlian Realty, received the award on November 30th from the Kansas Certified Commercial Investment Member chapter, and the Wichita State…