Phil Ruffin named the 2016 recipient of the Kansas CCIM Chapter / WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award Phil Ruffin named the 2016 recipient of the Kansas CCIM Chapter / WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award

Phil Ruffin has been named the 2016 recipient of the Kansas CCIM Chapter / WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award. This honor is awarded annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the commercial real estate and/or development industry in Wichita over a long period of time.

Ruffin's diverse business career has run the gamut from owning a dairy, a bank and more than four million square feet of commercial real estate, which included shopping centers, office buildings and strip centers, to expansive holdings in the hotel and gaming industries.

Some of his current properties include 12 hotels in Kansas, Maryland, California, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama, as well as a 16-acre island named Crystal Cay in Nassau, Bahamas, and 12,000 acres in Belize.

The award will be given at a luncheon hosted by the Kansas CCIM Chapter at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 15, at the Marcus Welcome Center. For reservations and more information, call the Realtors of South Central Kansas office at 316-263-3167.

Ruffin is the 12th recipient of the award. Previous recipients include Colby Sandlian (2005), Jack Hunt (2006), George Ablah (2007), Jack DeBoer (2008), Nestor and Michael Weigand (2009), Stephen L. Clark (2010) and Herbert L. Krumsick (2011), David Burk (2012), Rod M. Stewart (2013), Donald C. Slawson (2014) and Darrell Leason (2015).