Highway Commission Locks In on Former Marina, East Village Property

The Arkansas State Highway Commission is seeking about 8,300 SF of land from the property on which a new Holiday Inn Express, the blue building on the left, is being built.

Future and current roadwork projects in Little Rock generated some real estate action by the Arkansas State Highway Commission.

A vacant 4.3-acre commercial property, once home to the Riverside Marine development at 1900 Cantrell Road, was acquired for $938,000.

The land was purchased in association with the future replacement of the neighboring Highway 10 (aka Cantrell Road) bridge over Gill Street and the railroad tracks.

Sellers? Yankboys LLC, led by Wallace Rowland, Jerald Barnett Jr., John Oliver, Ross McCain, Wesley Walls, the James Hunter East Revocable Trust and Steve Kinzler.

About 3 miles to the east, the Highway Commission is engaged in a would-be $263,050 eminent domain acquisition associated with the I-30 Corridor project.

Most of the 0.19-acre property is at the southeast corner of Rector and Fourth streets with a sliver of land at the southwest corner of Fourth and Collins. The owner is East Village Hospitality Ltd., which is developing a 100-room Holiday Inn Express at 811 E. Fourth St.