Tax dollars remake downtown Wichita with a biomedical campus

Tax dollars remake downtown Wichita with a biomedical campus

It is closing in on a weekday lunch hour with few signs of life on an April morning at the southeast corner of Broadway Avenue and East William Street. On the corner, a parking lot. To the west, the distinctive Depression-era Petroleum Building sits empty. To the south and east, toward the Intrust Bank Arena, only an occasional door advertising a consultant or property management office breaks up long stretches of brick wall. Take a good last lo…