Arkansas Business is losing a frequent freelance photographer, but Bentonville is gaining a bar. That’s because Fayetteville photographer Kat Wilson and Emily Lawson are opening a new coffee shop/bar, the Foxhole, on the first floor of the new Thrive Building, a residential complex on A Street in downtown B’ville, in what’s being called the city’s Arts District.
The Foxhole will be open 7-1 a.m. and will serve coffee, steamed buns and craft cocktails, Wilson tells us.
She expects it to open in four or so weeks. “Community-focused coffee, food & cocktails” is how the website, WelcomeToFoxhole.com, describes the venture.
Artist Katherine Rutter is busy painting a mural inside the space, says Wilson, herself an artist with an MFA from the University of Arkansas.
Lawson is one of the forces behind Pink House Alchemy, which makes simple syrups, bitters and shrubs for cocktails and was recently selected by Startup Junkie Consulting of Fayetteville to participate in the ScaleUp America Initiative, a project of the U.S. Small Business Administration designed to help small businesses expand.
And in the everything-is-connected category, Arkansas Business’ Mark Carter wrote about the program in September, reporting that Startup Junkie was one of seven organizations across the country selected by the SBA to administer a ScaleUp America startup accelerator.