President Joe Biden's proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 includes $149 million for the Three Rivers Project, which officials say would prevent an economically devastating shutdown of the 50-year-old McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. read more >
As of early last week, President Joe Biden's eight-year, $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal appeared to be holding, but polarization in Washington makes the deal fragile. read more >
This week, we welcome a quartet of million-dollar real estate transactions to the show. read more >
Curtis Winar has been promoted to partner at Frost PLLC of Little Rock. read more >
Jessica Lewallen has been hired as director of AMR Architects' Springdale office. read more >
Becky McCool has been elected president of Washington Regional Medical Center Auxiliary in Fayetteville. read more >
Researcher Brian Solis, a global innovation evangelist at Salesforce and bestselling author, will lead the seventh webcast in a series presented by Arkansas Business throughout 2021. read more >
Inspired and adapting, women business owners in Arkansas forge ahead after COVID-19. read more >
Arkansas is missing out on tax revenue, jobs, wealth building, new products and services that could improve lives, business diversity and community investment, all because women struggle to access business capital. read more >
Born in southwest Arkansas, Dorothy Shaver brought international fame to Lord & Taylor. Under her leadership for 14 years, the store's sales grew from $30 million to $100 million. read more >
Hispanic women continue to see a higher unemployment rate in May 2021 than Hispanic men, 7.4% compared with 6.7%. read more >
A local investment group buys the 55,304-SF office building in west Little Rock from Cantrell West Properties LLC, led by Thomas Vaughan Jr., and JPMS Properties LLC, led by Bryan Jeffrey. read more >
Each struggling organization can likely point to multiple reasons for failing to keep the doors open, but far too often those struggles can be traced back to poor planning, especially as it relates to building a cash reserve. read more >
Jeannine Wheeler has joined the new CourtAvenue office in Bentonville as chief financial officer. read more >
Spencer Davis has been promoted to senior vice president of commercial and real estate lending at Riverside Bank in Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.4% from April to May. read more >
Rather than be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, controls engineering firm Fidus Global LLC of Paragould is leaning into the aftermath as it completes its first year of operation. read more >
The third generation of the Nabholz family will take over in January at the state's largest commercial contractor. read more >
Steve Cannon, a business CEO who graduated with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point, thinks the best place for leaders to be is in the trenches with their troops. read more >
Data collected for this week's list of private companies illustrated the uneven and sometimes counterintuitive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries. read more >
Crain Management Group tallied 2020 revenue of more than $618 million, ranking No. 23 among the largest private companies in Arkansas. read more >
Lexicon's 2020 performance included the start of a $100 million job for Tesla in Austin, Texas, and continuing work for Nucor and Big River Steel. read more >
Boris Okong has ventured into business by bringing the franchise 360° Painting, owned by Premium Service Brands, to Little Rock. read more >
Alicia Wilmoth has been named director of economic development for the city of Cabot. read more >
Mike Damron and Andrea Jobe have been hired as mortgage lenders at Arvest Bank in Conway. read more >
Darryl Brown, the executive director of external affairs for the South Region of Midcontinent Independent System Operator, explains one of the most important lessons learned from Texas' deep freeze. read more >
Americold Realty Trust of Atlanta says it will invest $84 million in an expansion of its Russellville operations, adding 30 jobs. read more >
Wright Lindsey Jennings adds practice group versed in needs of new businesses. read more >
Any company that is innovating and developing new products needs to protect its intellectual property, and there are two primary ways to do that: declare a trade secret or file a patent. read more >
Searcy's Unity Health-Jacksonville purchased the former North Metro Medical Center at 1400 Braden St., the 12,358-SF Marshall Road Medical Clinic at 813 Marshall Road and the 6,566-SF Kareer Kids day care at 901 MacArthur Drive. read more >
