Chase Koch: commitment

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…How has Wichita most changed since you grew up there? That’s interesting. It keeps growing. There’s more and more businesses here. There’s something in the water here, Tyler. I think it ties back to access to the farm team and values. There’s so many principled entrepreneurs here, and so many great businesses have been built in Wichita. What I would say how it’s changed is that the people have stayed the same and the value system has stayed the same. I have so many friends that left. They went to college, or they wanted to go to the big city. Almost all of them have come back, and it’s for the same reason that I described. How it’s going to change, I have a specific project I’m working on downtown. We talked about my passion for music and the ability to unify people. I’m building around this idea of bringing people together through music. I’ve helped build festivals here the last couple summers. We have another one coming up in September called Somewhere Fest, where we basically mix great music with social change and bring all that together into one concept. I’m building long-term assets here because I think we’ve had a gap in Wichita around music. I’m building an indoor venue that I think fits that gap with a number of other assets around that for housing, working with Wichita State on a number of things downtown. I think you’ll see Wichita continue to evolve and hopefully attract more and more of those people that I described. You founded a school that is located on the grounds of Wichita State. Do I understand that properly?…

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