Walton Heirs, RZC Investments Invest in Eddyline Kayaks
by Arkansas Business Staff – 12 hours ago
Eddyline plans to establish a physical presence in northwest Arkansas.
Eddyline plans to establish a physical presence in northwest Arkansas.
Renowned Fayetteville architect Marlon Blackwell will now receive credit for designing the $350 million Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff.
Molly Rawn said ticket sales are strong for the 2022 Walmart UCI Cyclocross World Championships, which will be held Jan. 29-30 at Centennial Park in Fayetteville.
Population growth in the United States, Arkansas and central Arkansas slowed from 2010-2020 compared with the previous decade, U.S. Census Bureau tallies and the accompanying chart show. read more >
Rachel Bader has been promoted to director of air service development for the Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock. read more >
Michelle Gilbert has been hired as director of communications for the Downtown Little Rock Partnership. read more >
Larry Crain Jr. led the purchase of the 78-room hotel in west Little Rock. read more >
Uncertainty remains, but the good news is that Arkansas and the country seem to be nearing full employment. read more >
Cherokee Nation Businesses' $225 million Legends Resort & Casino in Pope County, expected to create more than 1,000 direct jobs, remains on hold amid lingering litigation. read more >
Greyhounds will stop running at Southland Casino Racing in West Memphis. In contrast, Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs is running an expanded horse meet that began in December with a near-record 66 race days scheduled. read more >
Pine Bluff's Saracen Casino Resort proves it's a favorable bet, landing a $375M refinancing deal. read more >
The state has three glittering gambling halls and a fourth on the drawing board, but Arkansas sports bettors could soon have a mini-casino in their pockets: their cellphones. read more >
Last year's gas and grid shortcomings echoed this month: Instruments froze, output plunged, and burn-offs spewed greenhouse gases into the sky. read more >
As the New Year begins, let's make sure others know Arkansas is truly a competitor. read more >
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the commercial gaming industry in the United States hard in 2020. read more >
She joined the group in 2020 as executive director of the Northwest Arkansas Tech Summit read more >
The slowdown comes after two months of record growth. read more >
She started working for the park in 2001 as a seasonal employee. read more >
New designs are live on the airport's website and will be rolled out at the airport in the coming weeks. read more >
He now leads the operation of 52 state parks and oversees a $158 million annual budget. read more >
Week after week, we approach executives from businesses large and small, nonprofits and even government agencies, and we ask them to answer questions about their organizations, their industries and themselves. read more >
He's a former editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and calls himself “first and foremost a storyteller." read more >
Marshall embraced the past in order to enhance its future. read more >
In an effort to embrace the region's musical heritage and energize downtown, Osceola renovated the historic Coston Building into the Coston Fine Arts Center, preserving a piece of Arkansas' musical past and enhancing the city's future. read more >
Helena-West Helena's “Big River, Big Fish, Big Fun” tourism effort began in the summer of 2018, with the Cabela's King Kat Bass Pro Shop Tournament that involved about 30 fishing boats. read more >
The rise and fall of leaders in Arkansas media, manufacturing and retail, along with some high-dollar residential deals and the foreclosure on a commercial landmark in Little Rock, caught the attention of Arkansas Business readers in 2021. read more >
The cost of COVID-19 repercussions top a busy year in Arkansas news. read more >
High times and low moments noted from Arkansas Business subjects in 2021. read more >
They said it, we only quoted them. Here are some of the best things said in 2021. read more >
The forecast for holiday sales this year shows an increase of between 8.5% and 10.5% — and a potential record — compared with the pandemic year of 2020. read more >
The founder of publicly traded USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren, Robert “Bob” Powell, was among the notable Arkansans who died this year. Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Paul Greenberg was another, as was the founder of Hudson Cisne & Co. Here are a few of big names lost. read more >
Alex Hanes has been promoted and Amanda Mauck has been hired at MHP/Team SI of Little Rock. read more >
Generation Z is young but not naive. read more >
