Church Friendship Collapses Along With Building Plans
Was an ex-con seeking to improve his life taken advantage of by a couple from his church who gained his trust by trying to help him repair his marriage? Or were the couple just more victims of a man...
View ArticleAt 5, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Transforms Bentonville
There are any number of ways to try to gauge the impact — economic and otherwise — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has had on Bentonville, on Arkansas and beyond since its opening Nov. 11, 2011....
View ArticleWalton Family Foundation Gives NWACC $2M for Springdale Campus
The Walton Family Foundation has donated $2 million to Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville to help fund the construction of the college’s Springdale campus. The college, through its NWA...
View ArticleIssue 3, Jobs for Arkansas: It's Local (Randy Zook Commentary)
"All politics is local." It's the often-repeated phrase used to illustrate that, even when weighing a broad policy issue, people care most about how it impacts them and their community. That sentiment...
View ArticleLowe's Buys West Little Rock Acreage for New Store
Lowe's Home Center is set to return to Little Rock. The home improvement retailer this week purchased about 17 acres from four sellers at the northwest corner of Kanis and Bowman roads in Little Rock...
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Eschewing the Trump Brand (Craig Douglass On Consumers)
In this space on Aug. 3, 2015, we wrote about Donald J. Trump’s fledgling campaign for the presidency. Our focus was not necessarily on politics nor on policy, but on the Trump brand and how that brand...
View ArticleD1 Development Attracts $3.1 Million Transaction (Real Deals)
An 18,000-SF athletic training facility in west Little Rock tipped the scales at $3.1 million. Store Master Funding X LLC, an affiliate of the Store Capital real estate investment trust in Scottsdale,...
View ArticleLazenbys Face Loss Of Homes, Business
Centennial Bank of Conway is restarting its $2.6 million foreclosure action against Little Rock real estate investor Ron Lazenby. The lawsuit against Lazenby, his wife, Toni, and the Ronald Lazenby...
View ArticleArchitecture Firms Have Designs on Capitol Project
Anne Laidlaw’s office at the Arkansas Division of Building Authority is decorated with architectural renderings of state office buildings that were never built. The idea of a multi-agency building...
View ArticleFormer Celestica Property Sold for $5.6 Million
An industrial building in Little Rock, a mobile home park in Jacksonville, a west Little Rock manor and a downtown Little Rock apartment project form this week’s quartet of multimillion-dollar...
View ArticleLast Little Rock Allied Bank Branch Set To Close
Customers have been notified that the bank branch at 5701 Kavanaugh Blvd. in Little Rock will be closing in late January. That should come as a surprise to approximately no one. The location was the...
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Medical Marijuana: A Fact of Life for Arkansas Employers (Stuart Jackson...
The election is over, and Arkansas is now the latest of many states to have a medical marijuana law on the books. Although the new amendment to the Arkansas Constitution is effective immediately, it...
View ArticleASU's Holly Hall To Head Kappa Tau Alpha (Movers & Shakers)
Holly Hall, associate professor of strategic communication at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, is the incoming vice president and president-elect of Kappa Tau Alpha, a national college honor...
View ArticleColony West Center Sells for $7.1 Million (Real Deals)
The sale of a 90,000-SF retail center in west Little Rock weighed in at $7.1 million. Colony West Group LLC, led by T.J. Leflar, Marshall Saviers and Brian Shaw, and C-Lef Partners LLC, led by Leflar,...
View ArticlePebble Peak Ridge in Hot Springs Sold for $5.8 Million
A portfolio of duplexes in Hot Springs, undeveloped commercial land in Benton, elbow room for a Benton congregation, a Little Rock mansion and a cold storage facility in North Little Rock provide this...
View ArticleAfter Ray Dillon’s $3M Exit, Deltic Timber Seeks a CEO
In the month since Ray C. Dillon retired as CEO of Deltic Timber Corp. — a departure seen as surprising and sudden — he and officers of the El Dorado company have had little to say about the...
View ArticlePeco Foods Delivers $35M Boost for Corning’s Bruised Economy
The opening of the Peco feed mill in Corning earlier this year provided a glimmering counterpoint to the closing of the 44-year-old L.A. Darling plant. The $35 million investment by Peco Foods Inc. of...
View ArticleArkansas Urology to Mark Work on New Surgery Center
Arkansas Urology of Little Rock will break ground on a $6 million surgery center at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, which coincides with the the practice's 20th anniversary. The facility is expected to open in...
View ArticleHere's the Wells Fargo Foreclosure Lawsuit on the Region's Bank Building
Wells Fargo Bank N.A. has filed a foreclosure lawsuit on the Regions Bank building at 400 W. Capitol Ave. in Little Rock, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported today. You can read the entire filing...
View Article3 Businesses Set for Renovated Space on Main Street North Little Rock
Renovations to four buildings on the 700 block of Main Street in downtown North Little Rock are nearing completion with three businesses set to move in. The projects include the Koehler Building, a...
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