Tom Devlin, co-founder of Rent a Center and author of the recently released biography "Playing Through," is preparing to launch a new real estate development in Andover, Kansas. The development, "Montana Hills," will be a gated community.

Devlin is currently the CEO and chairman of Devlin Enterprises, a Wichita-based investment holding company. He is also the developer and owner of Flint Hills National Golf Club. In 1973 at the age of 25, Devlin founded Rent-A-Center, a rent-to-own electronics, appliance and furniture operation. He sold the national retail chain to Thorn EMI in 1987 for 594 million. A longtime supporter of Wichita State, Tom and his wife Myra contributed $1 million in 1990 to the building of Devlin Hall, home of the Center for Entrepreneurship.