Danny Games knows a good industrial site when he sees one, and as Entergy Arkansas' director of business and economic development, he and his team have identified one on 121 acres near Maumelle High School.
Steve Clark of Fort Smith, entrepreneur and startup investor and adviser, has received the Award of Merit from the Arkansas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Brandon Ruhl of Taggart Architects in North Little Rock has received the Emerging Professional Award.
A mini-storage project in Maumelle, a retail building in Bryant, a grand home in west Little Rock, a warehouse in east Little Rock and a sandwich shop in downtown Little Rock are served up in this week's seven-digit deals.
Arkansas Lighting of Van Buren, going back to the earth's basic light source, the sun, will soon be fully powered by solar energy, the company announced last week. read more >
Walmart and Tesla have settled a lawsuit filed by the retail giant alleging that Tesla installed rooftop solar panels that caught fire. read more >
TACenergy of Dallas, a division of The Arnold Companies, has acquired the U.S. wholesale petroleum distribution business of IPC of Santa Ana, California. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. read more >
Leaders of Southwest Power Pool gathered in Little Rock last week to elect new officers and approve the construction of 44 power transmission projects in its 14-state footprint, including 166 miles of 345-kilovolt lines. read more >
Visions of a $3.5 billion plant to turn natural gas into liquid fuel have tantalized Jefferson County while doubters have touted the project as pie in the sky. With two of four crucial environmental permits in hand, that pie could be going into the oven soon. read more >
When a tornado rumbled through Benton County in the early hours of Oct. 21 and knocked out electricity to the airport, things could have gone bad pretty quickly. read more >
Clay County Electric Cooperative announced Thursday that it is partnering with Today's Power Inc., the cooperatives' own solar installation company, to build a 1-megawatt solar array outside the utility's headquarters in Corning. read more >
Murphy Oil Corp. of El Dorado blew past Wall Street expectations Thursday, announcing third-quarter revenue up 66% over the same quarter last year, spurring a stock-price rally. read more >
The Arkansas Discovery Farms Program is giving farmers data to help them farm sustainably, which, in turn, increases profitability, participating farmers and other state agriculture experts say. read more >
Blake Evans, the last CEO of Peterson Farms before selling all broiler operations to Simmons Foods Inc. of Siloam Springs in 2008, has hitched the family legacy to a new partnership: a startup headed by a co-founder of the meal-order service Blue Apron. read more >
Danny Kennedy, CEO of Riceland Foods of Stuttgart, remains bullish on China as a market for Arkansas-grown rice. read more >
The Arkansas Association of Asian Businesses will host a workshop on the U.S.-China trade dispute and its effect on the Arkansas economy on Nov. 7 in Little Rock. read more >
Chad Hogan, Jody Sheets and Savannah Stephens have all recently advanced in their job roles at Conway Corp. read more >
Household debt in the United States rose for the 19th straight quarter, reaching $13.67 trillion as of March 31. It's now 7.8% or $993 billion higher than the previous peak of $12.68 trillion, reached in the third quarter of 2008. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point, from 3.4 percent in August to 3.5 percent in September, the state Division of Workforce Services reports. read more >
Enthusiasm is high for solar power, with new financing options and opportunity zones, featured in recent announcements, news headlines and public dialogue. But one solution worth pursuing would combine all three while facilitating economic growth in struggling areas. read more >
Southwestern Electric Power Co. of Shreveport has filed a compromise settlement agreement with the Arkansas Public Service Commission in a quest for higher rates. read more >
Alexandra T. Chunn, a recent graduate of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, is joining Blair & Stroud in Batesville. read more >
Today's Power Inc. of Little Rock is building $13.6 million in solar installations to provide 8 megawatts of low-priced electricity to power Pulaski County operations. read more >
Arkansas Business' 2019 CFO of the Year finalists and Lifetime Achievement Award winners will be recognized at a luncheon on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock. read more >
Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corp. of Camden will seek the state's first utility-wide electricity rate decrease tied to savings from solar power. read more >
The sun never sets on Arkansas' solar power pricing battle, it seems, but a swirl of cases before Arkansas regulators and a major ruling in Louisiana favoring Entergy Inc. suggest a reckoning may be near. read more >
Fighting policies that protect workers from disruption should unite the left, right and center — and should bring into clear focus the point at which corporations should rightly cede responsibility for employee protections to government. read more >
The state's chief utility regulator and its energy secretary will lead a parade of business leaders, policymakers and contractors examining energy industry trends Tuesday at the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association's annual meeting and conference. read more >
Former Chevron Corp. executive Robert N. Ryan Jr. has joined the board of Murphy Oil Corp., the global petroleum exploration and production giant based in El Dorado. read more >
Arkansas Secretary of Government Transformation and Shared Services Amy Fecher and Southern Bancorp CEO Darrin Williams are among executives scheduled to speak as part of the 2020 Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy. read more >
The Razorback Foundation sold 232 acres in south Fayetteville for $6 million to Ashton McCombs, president of the water treatment company Phigenics. read more >
With a potential new lithium industry coming together in south Arkansas, Robert Mintak is putting up rather than shutting up. Standard Lithium's $10 million test plant, if successful, could pave the way to a nearly half-billion-dollar permanent operation pulling battery-grade lithium from the brine stream Lanxess AG is already mining for bromine. read more >
This week's quartet of million-dollar real estate transactions features a pet-centric property in west Little Rock, a fast-food spot in Cabot, a postal project in Alexander and a retail store in northern Saline County. read more >
Chris Cook, Matt Faries, Whitney Rial and Omar Clemons have been named as four newly assigned Entergy Arkansas customer service representatives. read more >
