Capital Hotel

Moves in banking, health care and consulting are some of the major highlights for this week's Movers & Shakers. read more >

The historic Hotel Freiderica, Little Rock’s second-oldest hotel, is set to reopen as a Fairfield Inn by Marriott early next year. read more >

The $3 million project now in progress will repair segments of the west wall built in the 1870s. read more >

This week's million-dollar deals and construction kicks off with a 126-unit apartment complex. read more >

The 94-room Capital Hotel in downtown Little Rock and its Capital Bar & Grill will reopen on May 17; both closed last year in response to the pandemic. read more >

Reince Priebus, who served President Donald Trump for the first six months of his administration, was in Little Rock last week. read more >

Warren Stephens has done more than just safeguard the fortunes of a company birthed during the Depression and founded on entrepreneurial moxie. The second-generation CEO and stakeholder took it to another level and solidified his status as a billionaire along the way. read more >

Downtown Little Rock has drawn the attention of three hotel developers who have invested more than $7.3 million to secure locations. read more >

Leiva’s Coffee of Sherwood is brewing up a philosophy of generosity, combining homegrown coffee with a belief in helping the less fortunate. The way to accomplish this: offering coffee bean growers a greater percentage of profits to allow for reinvestment in underserved communities. read more >

The Capital Hotel in Little Rock was recently added to the Southern Living Hotel Collection, a list of independent four- and five-star hotels, resorts and inns across the South. read more >

Change is coming to Ashley's at the Capital Hotel. Hotel management says the popular Little Rock restaurant will be closing, temporarily, May 4 to allow for a redesign. The restaurant aims to reopen in July. read more >

Since the beginning of the year, Melanie Steele has paid $1 million for a home in Chenal Valley; $385,000 for a house in Canal Pointe and $92,000 for the lot next door; $357,500 for a house in the Lakewood section of North Little Rock; and $80,000 for a house that she then moved off its lot in Indian Hills. All in cash. read more >

As for this Christmas and dining choices, what follows is a by-no-means-comprehensive list for the Little Rock-North Little Rock area, with a side trip to Russellville. Calling ahead is highly recommended. read more >

The Capital Hotel's star executive pastry chef, Tandra Watkins, is moving to Miami next month. read more >

The Toronto Star follows up on reports out of Little Rock that Canadian millionaire Michael Wekerle is being sued by a Capital Hotel employee after a wild night in Little Rock. read more >

Courtesy of the Arkansas Times, here's a taste of Canadian businessman Michael Wekerle's night at the Capital Hotel three years ago. read more >

A valet injured when Michael Wekerle, a "very wealthy, important person from Canada," caused a rumpus at the Capital Hotel in downtown Little Rock three years ago, is now seeking $75,000 in damages. read more >

While the Capital Hotel's new executive chef develops a cooking website, an executive of the hotel already has a web site "running." read more >

Antunes expects to change the Ashley’s menu, but he doesn’t plan to make the fare incompatible with what Richardson and his team have done in the past. read more >

The Capital Hotel of Little Rock says Joël Antunes is its new executive chef, overseeing the kitchen at Ashley’s in the Capital Hotel, the Capital Bar and Grill, and the hotel’s private dining and catering. read more >