Tag: Wichita

Setting the Standard of Community Living

Since 1962, Parklane Towers has set the standard for uniqueness and quality in community living. In setting that standard, many residents move in and end up staying.

Owners have remodeled their homes to meet their needs for entertaining and enjoying home life — and maintaining their resale value — making Parklane Towers’ living their “forever home.”

Each home is as unique as its owner.

Entry way view into a Parklane Towers 1B 1B Apartment
Entry into a one-bedroom apartment from shared hallway — a standard view of all our apartments.

Parklane Towers is right for singles and couples — for people who love to entertain and for people who travel. It’s the ultimate in cooperative living — providing privacy, security, and friendships.

Why our “about” blog posts?

In these posts we answer some of the questions potential homeowners might have. We have converted our printed brochure into our “internet brochure.” We hope this makes it easy for you to read on any device. We also hope it will be easy for you and your realtor to discover the unique features of living in Parklane Towers.

Join our community and help us continue to establish the standards of carefree home ownership for decades to come.

There’s plenty of parking for our residents and their guests. Just one of the standards our owners expect.

Contact your realtor or one of our “For Sale by Owner” listings to schedule a tour to see if Parklane Towers and cooperative living is right for you.

Luxury Apartments Planned

1961 Article from local Wichita publication WTW

Reprint from “Wichita This Week” article published in 1961 | Online search for “Wichita This Week publication” did not pull up any results for background information 2019/10/10

The proposed Parklane Towers luxury apartments that you buy instead of rent, is good news to modern-day “house-slaves.”

This $2-million dollar apartment house will provide luxury housing, without the lawn-care, house-care problems that beset the house owner in these days when servants are a scarce commodity.

The City Commission last week granted rezoning that will permit construction to start this month. The Towers should be completed within a year, said S. S. Platt,. architect and president of Parklane Towers, Inc.

The apartment house will be built near Lincoln and Bleckley Drive, di­rectly behind Parklane Shopping Cen­ter. This is expected to be the first of eight such luxury apartment buildings, to be erected in two clusters of four buildings.

The 10-story building will have 79 apartments. Some of the features of the building are: a balcony for each apart­ment; a greenhouse on the roof where tenants can safely leave their house plants when they are away from home; air conditioning that is controlled in­dividually in each apartment- one apartment can be heated, the next cooled if the occupants so desire, a bi­level parking garage with an attendant on duty; landscaping that will include a fountain at the building entrance.

The apartments will range from bachelor apartments to 3-bedroom units. Each is planned with an electric kitchen. Larger apartments will have two bathrooms.

It is the first time such luxury apart­ments, to be owned by the tenants, have been built in Wichita since the Hillcrest Apartments on Douglas were erected 34 years ago. [Online search establishes Hillcrest being built in 1927]

Please remember that that this “planned” article announced the project. Builders, Inc. completed just one of the Towers with 72 apartments and we do not have a greenhouse on top of our building. || If you know this publication, please let us know.

Say YOU Saw It in WTW

He who, having lost one ideal, re­fuses to give his heart and soul to an­other and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.

Constance Naden
PT Apts Planned Press Release