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The Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Smith and The New York Institute of Technology’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State in Jonesboro.
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Osteopaths Look to Cure A ShortageLock Icon

Arkansas’ two osteopathic medical schools are flexing their young muscles, sending hundreds of graduates into new residency programs and starting to ease a long-term physicians shortage. read more >
Part of the former U.S. Army base is being transformed into an economic development engine for the Fort Smith area.
Construction / Education / Government & Politics

Manning the Fort: Chaffee Crossing Hopes to Build on Record YearLock Icon

As Fort Smith moves into the future, it is relying on its strong and significant ties to its past. read more >
A rendering of the planned TGE Global Entertainment movie studio in Fort Smith.
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$30M Movie Studio Planned for Chaffee Crossing

The complex will total 92,000 SF and will include six sound stages. read more >
Construction / Real Estate

Housing Expansion Planned at Fort Smith’s Chaffee Crossing

Dwellings from affordable housing to luxury homes are being added. read more >
James Ibison with Ibison Masons prepares to cut a decorative stone for Gateway Park at the east entrance of downtown Fort Smith.
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Fort Smith Fights to Find Its ‘Best Version’Lock Icon

Fort Smith’s growth lags behind that of Little Rock and northwest Arkansas, but city leaders say there is cause for optimism. read more >
Adam Blalock, CEO of Umarex/Walther, holds one of his company’s high-powered air rifles at its corporate headquarters in Fort Smith.
Government & Politics / Manufacturing / Public Companies

Arkansas Emerges as Bull’s-eye for Gun TradeLock Icon

A growing list of gun manufacturers with Arkansas facilities are currently employing more than 3,000. read more >
Kyle Parker
Education / Health Care

Arkansas Colleges of Health Education Develops $11M Village

Heritage Village, a walkable neighborhood with both commercial and residential space, is now under development on the Barling side of Chaffee Crossing across from the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education. read more >
Quentin Willard, left, and Micah Spahn of Fort Smith Brewing Co. enjoy some of their product in the brewery’s tasting room.
Investments / Manufacturing / Real Estate

Craft Brews Make Home in Fort Smith

It was love that brought Quentin Willard back to Fort Smith, and it was love that led him, with business partner Brooke Elder, to found Fort Smith Brewing Co. read more >
Kyle Parker is president and CEO of Arkansas Colleges of Health Education which runs the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, the medical school that opened in August in Fort Smith.
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New Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine a High-Tech WonderLock Icon

Kyle Parker has brought his faith in the benefits of technology to his latest project: the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, the medical school that opened in August in Fort Smith. read more >
The Stonecrest at Chaffee Crossing development is scheduled to be ready for leasing by June 2018.
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ERC Announces $8M Residential Development in Chaffee Crossing

ERC Holdings LLC of Fort Smith announces an $8 million luxury duplex development at Wells Lake Road and Custer Boulevard in Chaffee Crossing. read more >
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Dry Spell for Fort Smith Brewing Set To End

If the permits come through and everything falls into place, Fort Smith Brewing Co. should be up and running next year — the earlier the better, as far as Brooke Elder is concerned. read more >
Ivy Owen says the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority stuck to its guns when it faced rough times, and “the wait was worth it.”
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Chaffee Crossing Continues Growth in Fort Smith

While it seems today that Chaffee Crossing is one of those blessed developments that seems to fall into one handsome deal after another, Ivy Owen, the executive director of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority in Fort Smith, remembers a much leaner time. read more >
Ed Harmon, chairman of Spartan Logistics of Columbus, Ohio, and his son, Steve, have purchased approximately 1 million SF of warehouse space in Fort Smith.
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Spartan Logistics Puts Its Money on Fort Smith

In the past 18 months, Spartan Logistics of Columbus, Ohio, says it has invested approximately $20 million to buy and renovate more than 1 million SF of Fort Smith warehouse space. read more >
Government & Politics / Manufacturing

Manufacturer Plans $80M Paper Plant, Up to 83 Jobs in Fort Smith

P.H. Glatfelter Co. of York, Pennsylvania, a publicly traded manufacturer of specialty papers and other fiber-based materials,says it will — subject to local approval — open a plant in Fort Smith that will create up to 83 jobs. read more >
Kyle D. Parker, past Fort Smith Regional Healthcare Foundation board chairman, has been named president and CEO of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education and the proposed Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine at Chaffee Crossing in Fort Smith. 
 
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Big Plans for Community Surround Planned Osteopathic College in Fort Smith

Arkansas Colleges of Health Education CEO Kyle Parker has hired a first-rate lineup of consultants to devise the best way to build a residential-retail-commercial community. read more >
Hugg & Hall bought this 16.2-acre property in Fort Smith.
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Hugg & Hall Gets New Site in Fort Smith

Super Properties III LLC, led by John Hugg and Robert Hall, bought a 16.2-acre property at 7101 S. Zero St. Hugg & Hall paid just shy of $2.5 million to Alawest-AL LLC. read more >
The property site bordered in yellow above may become the location of a Jimmy John's restaurant.
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Plans for Small Shopping Center on Fayetteville’s MLK Taking Shape

Rodney Ghan and Bob Cooper of R.H. Ghan & Cooper Commercial Properties of Fort Smith have bought a lot on West Martin Luther King Boulevard in Fayetteville with the intent of developing a two-tenant shopping center. read more >
Ivy Owen, executive director of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority: “Without teamwork, none of this would have happened.” | (Photo by Kat Wilson)
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Investment, Jobs Buoy Fort Smith’s Chaffee Crossing

Chaffee Crossing, the 7,000-acre Army surplus property in Fort Smith, continues to be a popular development destination in its new civilian life, playing host to a spate of expansion and relocation announcements during the past year. read more >
A row of Garrison Avenue storefronts from the 1880s and 1890s is being redeveloped into apartments and retail space by Griffin Properties of Fort Smith. | (Photo by Gwen Moritz)
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Developments Old, New Suit Fort Smith

Fort Smith is not only the site of the future U.S. Marshals Museum, but also nearly 1,000 new jobs (by 2021) and a new $30 million headquarters for ArcBest Corp. on the east side of town at Chaffee Crossing. read more >
Kyle Parker
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Fort Smith Osteopathic School Picks Architect

The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education of Fort Smith recently named Risley & Associates of Fort Smith as the lead architect to build the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, a job estimated at $75 million. read more >