Willard Garvey, Garvey family named recipients of Kansas CCIM Chapter / WSU Center
for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award
Nov. 16, 2022
By WSU Strategic Communications
Contact for News Reporters: Stanley Longhofer, Center for Real Estate, 316-978-7163 or stan.longhofer@wichita.edu.
Willard Garvey and the Garvey family have been named the 2022 recipients of the Kansas
CCIM Chapter / WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award. This honor is
given annually to those who have made a significant contribution to the commercial
real estate and/or development industry in Wichita over a long period of time.
The Garvey family has been instrumental in Wichita’s development for more than 80
years. In 1940, Ray Hugh Garvey and his son Willard established Builders Inc., through
which they built and managed over 2,000 apartments and attached fourplexes, around
5,000 single-family “cottages,” and several shopping centers.
After Ray Hugh’s death in 1959, Willard Garvey took over the organization and was
responsible for numerous Wichita landmarks including the Garvey Center, Epic Center,
The Independent School, several neighborhoods including Bonnie Brae, much of the Southwest
Industrial Park, and additional apartment projects. The Garvey family continues to
be active in the Wichita real estate community to this day, through Builders Inc.,
Bonavia Properties, and Cochener Garvey Capital Partners among others.
The award will be given at a luncheon hosted by the WSU Center for Real Estate and
the Kansas CCIM Chapter at 11:30 a.m. Thursday Dec. 15, at the Marcus Welcome Center
on the Wichita State campus. For reservations and more information, call the Realtors
of South Central Kansas office at 316-263-3167. Garvey is the 17th recipient of the award. Previous recipients include Colby Sandlian
(2005), Jack Hunt (2006), George Ablah (2007), Jack DeBoer (2008), Nestor & Michael
Weigand (2009), Stephen L. Clark (2010) and Herbert L. Krumsick (2011), David Burk
(2012), Rod M. Stewart (2013), Donald C. Slawson (2014), Darrell Leason (2015), Phil
Ruffin (2016), George Laham (2017), Steven J. Martens (2018), Paul Jackson (2019)
and Stanley D. Longhofer (2021).
For more information, contact Stan Longhofer with the WSU Center for Real Estate at
316-978-7163 or stan.longhofer@wichita.edu, or Michael Loveland with the Kansas CCIM Chapter at 316-292-3915 or loveland@weigand.com.
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