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Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas’ Walton College of Business

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Construction

Record Number of Homes Sold in Northwest Arkansas, Report Says

The new high came despite a significant increase in the average sales price. read more >
A residential development in northwest Arkansas 
Nonprofits / Real Estate

Walton Family Foundation Recommends Changes to Solve Northwest Arkansas Housing Crunch

Seven measures including zoning code reform have been proposed. read more >
Marlon Blackwell 
Principal of Marlon Blackwell Architects of Fayetteville and Distinguished Professor 
and E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design
Business Services / Construction / Education

Marlon Blackwell Raises Bar on Framework of Arkansas Architecture

Marlon Blackwell , the Fayetteville architect, admits he sees little downside in being famous, as long as he remembers where he came from. read more >
McDonald County, in Missouri's southwest corner, is no longer part of what is now the three-county Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metropolitan Statistical Area in northwest Arkansas.
Government & Politics / Real Estate / Tourism

Missouri County Officially Dropped from NWA MetroLock Icon

The federal Office of Management & Budget dropped McDonald County from the official Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. read more >
The city limits of Centerton, seen on the left as it appeared last June and on the right, the same general area as it looked in 2008.
Agriculture & Poultry / Business Services / Education

NWA Population Tide Pours Into Bedroom Communities

Towns off the beaten path add people and tax dollars with easier travel and housing. read more >
Arkansas Farm Bureau President Randy Veach says a new trade deal came in the nick of time.
Agriculture & Poultry / Business Services / Education

Arkansas Exporters Applaud USMCA, Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’Lock Icon

The letters USMCA may not say much to most Arkansans, but to state leaders in international trade, they spell relief. read more >
An rendering of the proposed Great River Bridge, which would carry Interstate 69 traffic across the Mississippi River near Arkansas City (Desha County). 
Agriculture & Poultry / Construction / Energy

Delta Still Waits for I-69 ‘Game Changer’Lock Icon

Delta boosters envision the construction of a 23-mile stretch of Interstate 69 opening up the fertile but economically depressed region to more business development. read more >
Kathy Deck
Banking & Finance / Education / Real Estate

Kathy Deck Takes Seat on Real Estate Industry Council (Movers & Shakers)

Kathy Deck, director of the Center for Business & Economic Research at the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named to the Real Estate Industry Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. read more >
Construction / Energy / Government & Politics

Report: Clean Line Project Could Mean $660M Impact in Arkansas

The construction and operation of the Plains & Eastern Clean Line transmission project could equate to more than $660 million for the Arkansas economy, according to researchers from the Center for Business and Economic Research at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. read more >
"It is nowhere near where it was at the peak of the boom, but it is rising from what we can consider the bottom of the market," Kathy Deck, director of Walton College’s Center for Business and Economic Research, said in the report.
Banking & Finance / Construction / Real Estate

Skyline Report: Northwest Arkansas Housing Market On The Rebound

Building permits issued for the final six months of 2012 represented a 53 percent increase from that same period in 2011, according to the Skyline Report, released by Arvest Bank and the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas’ Walton College of Business. read more >