Josh Billue is refinishing a 16,000-SF former warehouse into a tribute to the neighborhood that attracted artists like Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fizgerald and Duke Ellington in the Dreamland's heyday.
Seven collegians or recent graduates worked for ad agency CJRW this summer, gaining expertise in all specialties at the firm and working on real client projects.
Megan Crozier, chief merchant for Sam's Club, and University of Arkansas Vice Chancellor for Athletics Hunter Yurachek are among the featured speakers for the fall Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy in Bentonville.
Of the 2 million people clogging airport security lines and gate areas again each day, one crowd is still largely missing: business travelers. read more >
Investors from Idaho paid $10.2 million for three student townhome projects in Fayetteville. read more >
The first new house built in the neighborhood immediately east of downtown Little Rock since 1995 is occupied, and scores of apartments will be ready within weeks. read more >
More than a year after Murphy Oil Corp. severed most of its old and deep roots in El Dorado, the region still leans hard on one of its branches. read more >
A craft brewery is just one example of a string of developments Bill Luther names in assessing Union County's recent economic rebound. read more >
The North Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau announced Wednesday a new branding and marketing effort called “Setting the Table.” read more >
The United States Marshals Museum gets an anonymous $5 million matching gift, bringing it another step closer to reaching its capital campaign goal of $12.5 million. read more >
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week from the lowest point of the pandemic, even as the job market appears to be rebounding on the strength of a reopened economy. read more >
The U.S. economy reached a peak in February 2020, the National Bureau of Economic Research says. The recession began the following month and ended in April. read more >
Americans spent more last month on clothing, electronics and dining out as the economy opened up and pandemic-related restrictions were lifted. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate remained unchanged for the third month in a row, at 4.4% from May to June. read more >
Conway Convention & Visitors Bureau wants to sign 30 student athletes from the University of Central Arkansas to "name, image and likeness" agreements to promote the city. read more >
The Walton Arts Center has received a $9.8 million Shuttered Venue Operators Grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration. read more >
Rising COVID-19 infections in other states have prompted Chicago to restart a travel order after several weeks without travel restrictions. read more >
Live music is returning to the end of West Ninth Street in Little Rock with the opening of The Hall, a music and events space that will pay tribute to a neighborhood landmark where Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington once trod the stage. read more >
This year has seen the biggest jump in licenses issued by the state to breweries in Arkansas in the last 10 years, and the year is only half over. read more >
This week's installment of million-dollar real estate transactions features a mixed bag of commercial and residential property. read more >
Columnist Rex Nelson shares how Arkansas can better promote its culinary heritage and iconic eateries. read more >
No official has given a hard date for when the six-lane Interstate 40 bridge across the Mississippi River will reopen for traffic, but it is beginning to look like the end of July is a good bet. read more >
After a year in the barrel, spirit makers in Arkansas welcome tasters and tours. read more >
In cities that collect advertising and promotion taxes for tourism on hotel and restaurant receipts, the numbers talk. read more >
If philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was right — if, in fact, that which does not kill us makes us stronger — then the Arkansas craft brewers who weathered the pandemic storm of 2020 appear to be tackling 2021 in good shape. read more >
Van Buren County, long part of a wall of dry counties in north-central Arkansas, has spent the past six months transitioning to a wet county, bringing an increase in sales tax revenue and excitement. read more >
Sales in eating and drinking establishments in the United States continue to trend upward as pandemic capacity restrictions are eased and more Americans are vaccinated. read more >
The owners of restaurants, amusement parks and retail shops, many of them desperate for workers, are sounding an unusual note of gratitude this summer. Thank goodness for teenagers. read more >
The Arkansas Livestock Show announces dates and details for the 81st Arkansas State Fair. read more >
President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order that will reduce the ability of employers to prevent workers from going to rival firms and remove some of the state occupational licensing requirements that make it harder to land a job. read more >
Arkansas Business will honor 50 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during a live event in September at the DoubleTree Little Rock. read more >
West Memphis Mayor Marco McClendon says his town of approximately 25,000 has “probably” lost about $1.5 million in tax revenue. 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 >
