Immerse Arkansas Launches Renovation and Expansion Project
Immerse Arkansas, a Little Rock-based nonprofit organization, launched a $805,000 renovation and expansion project on Fri. Oct. 16, 2020. The project is part of the city’s Asher Avenue revitalization...
View ArticleBringing the Past to Life: Planting the Seed for a New Lafayette School...
In the early 1920s, the people of Ouachita County knew that Julius Rosenwald would help them if and only if they showed initiative in the community. Rosenwald was a Jewish philanthropist from Illinois...
View ArticleDesselle Real Estate Joins Sotheby’s Realty Network, Gets Name Change
Desselle Real Estate is joining an international realty network, taking on the name Capital Sotheby’s International Realty.The Little Rock-based real estate company has joined Sotheby’s International...
View ArticleKO Construction, O’Gary Industrial Group Merge, Forming Keet O’Gary Construction
Two Central Arkansas construction companies have merged to form a new company.KO Construction and O’Gary Industrial Group have merged, forming Keet O’Gary Construction, which will perform industrial...
View ArticleFormer Murphy Oil Headquarters Hits Market with $15 Million Price Tag
The former Murphy Oil headquarters in El Dorado has hit the market.Colliers International | Arkansas released a listing for the 87,076 square-foot property this morning, pricing the building at $15...
View ArticleASU System Sells Former Chancellor’s Residence in Jonesboro
The Arkansas State University System Board of Trustees has authorized the sale of a residential property in Jonesboro formerly used as the home for the Arkansas State University (A-State) chancellor.In...
View ArticleFor Public Agencies, ‘P3’ Could Equal $$$: 2020 Legislation a Potential...
Colorado used it to fund a $1.3 billion expansion of Interstate 70 in Denver. Texas used it for the $2.9 billion Grand Parkway in Houston. And Ohio State University used it to improve energy management...
View ArticleArchitecture: Bram Keahey of Taggart Architects: Pent-up Plans Ready to...
North Little Rock’s downtown Argenta district is thriving, pandemic be darned, and hometown Taggart Architects is a big part of its recent renaissance. A building boom of roughly $65 million in...
View ArticleConstruction: John Teeter of C.R. Crawford: Growing Right Along with a Region
Fayetteville’s C.R. Crawford Construction Co. does business across all of Arkansas, but its home region of Northwest Arkansas represents the firm’s bread and butter. And the numerous C.R. Crawford...
View ArticleEngineering: Jerry Holder of Garver: ‘Don’t Build It, and They Won’t Come’
Arkansans know Garver as the elite engineering firm based just downriver from the base of the Interstate 430 bridge in North Little Rock. But the 100-year-old firm is known far beyond the state’s...
View ArticleA New Chapter: Fayetteville Library Expansion Nearing Completion
Photography and renderings provided.When David Johnson became the director of the Fayetteville Public Library in 2012, he did not expect to be overseeing a major expansion. “The previous director told...
View ArticleInto the Woods: Despite Construction Challenges, Cypress Social Redefines...
Photos by Brent WalkerLeading a tour through the gorgeous Cypress Social, restaurateur Jim Keet looks at the understated elegance of his latest creation as if seeing it for the first time. He smiles....
View ArticlePiecemeal to Panoptic: Reimagined Arkansas Arts Center Expected to Be Worth...
The ongoing transformation of the reimagined Arkansas Arts Center in downtown Little Rock, for which $128 million is being raised, will make it bigger and better, and according to Executive Director...
View ArticleUAMS Receives $500K Gift Earmarked for New El Dorado Campus
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received an anonymous $500,000 gift earmarked for a new regional campus in El Dorado.This gift will establish the Dr. David M. Yocum III El...
View ArticleShellam Makes $100K Donation, Creating UA Little Rock Endowment in Honor of...
Lesyle Shellam is making a significant donation in honor of her late father, real estate icon L. Dickson Flake.Shellam has donated $100,000 to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to establish the...
View ArticleA Home in the Cloud: eXp Realty Embraces Virtual Tools
eXp Realty was founded in 2009 and is one of the fastest growing real estate brokerages that offers a virtual three-dimensional immersive office space, eXp World, through its sister company VirBELA....
View ArticleBikeable Building to Open in Downtown Bentonville in 2022
Most people drive to walk. Others bike. Now, there is one office building where employees can bike at work.In downtown Bentonville, work has commenced on a six-story, 230,000 square-foot office complex...
View ArticleUrban Outfitters Setting Up Shop in Promenade at Chenal
Urban Outfitters is coming to Arkansas for the first time. The retail chain is expected to open a store in Little Rock in summer 2021 in the Promenade at Chenal. Newmark Moses Tucker Partners, the...
View ArticleMcPherson Retiring as VCC’s Chief Operating Officer
After more than 30 years with the company, VCC Construction chief operating officer Bill McPherson is stepping down at the end of 2020. According to VCC, McPherson’s departure is part of a multi-year...
View ArticleDawn Scott Joins The Janet Jones Company as Agent
Longtime Central Arkansas broadcaster Dawn Scott is taking on the real estate industry. Scott is joining the Janet Jones Company, following her recent announcement that she will be stepping down as a...
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