Maxus Realty Trust has a plan to unlock value for shareholders while the multifamily market is running hot. The latest transaction involves a 208-apartment complex in Liberty.

David Smith plans to retire as CEO of Associated Wholesale Grocers at the end of next year. Current COO Dan Funk will succeed Smith as leader of the Kansas City, Kansas, co-op.

An 18-month acquisition spree continues for Mariner Wealth Advisors, which adds its 11th office in California and 81st overall.

Women have had to fight for every inch of advancement in the workplace, over decades forging careers in industries where they often were vastly outnumbered. And few industries have been as tough to crack — or required as much mettle from the women who ventured in — as construction and commercial real estate. Women make up just 9.9% of the U.S. construction industry, though their pay is nearly on par with that of their male counterparts, according to The National Association of Women in Construction.…

After the acquisition, the company and its subsidiaries now have 580 companywide employees, including 111 in the immediate Kansas City area.

Frontier Justice sold for an undisclosed amount to an affiliate of Indiana-based Ambassador Enterprises, whose family of companies reports about $1.5 billion in annual revenue. The Lee’s Summit-based firearms retailer, with a focus on “faith, family, freedom,” as well as fashion, opened its first retail store in 2015, followed by a range-and-retail location in 2017 in Kansas City, Kansas, just east of Legends Outlets. The company now has five locations, counting a store opening next year in…