Arkansas is less than a year away from tapping a rich new source of economic development, public-private partnerships that will build and operate public assets like college dormitories or parking decks. read more >

Kappa Realty LLC, led by Chris Robertson, bought the 17.6-acre home of the Riverdale Shopping Center at 2500-2610 Cantrell Road from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock. read more >

Laura Nick intended to pursue a career in advertising after she graduated in 2002 from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. read more >

Garver of North Little Rock has bought two 5,000-SF buildings and a site at 7700 Northshore Place in North Little Rock for about $1.2 million. read more >

The city of North Little Rock is sprucing up the Park Hill and Levy business districts with federally funded Jump Start grants and playing a long game when it comes to economic development in those areas. read more >

The airport code is HOT, and these days it’s both an identifier and a description: Traffic, revenue and optimism are climbing at Hot Springs Memorial Field. read more >

Dan Williams of Garver and Lynn Blankenship of Cooperative Christian Ministries and Clinic won executive of the year awards, and former Simmons First National Corp. CEO J. Thomas "Tommy" May was honored for his lifetime of leadership at the 31st annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >

U.S. Rep. French Hill joined the Little Rock Port Authority to celebrate the completion of the first phase of a two-phase, $10.5 million project that will make improvements to Slackwater Harbor, including a new dock with direct dock-to-rail capability and new rail storage. read more >

Executives at Garver say its wellness program helps the North Little Rock engineering firm save on health care costs and is a boon to the retention, recruitment and productivity of its employees. read more >

North Little Rock engineering firm Garver says its president, CEO and board member Dan Williams will retire in December 2019 as part of a planned internal succession strategy. read more >

Beginning this month, Mark Windle of Manhattan Road & Bridge will be juggling dozens of overlapping calendars, work crew schedules, traffic plans and subcontractors to hasten the $87.4 million widening of Interstate 630. read more >

Sharon Little of Barling and Kelly Hokit of Fort Smith are among five people to begin new jobs with Mercy. Joe Dollerschell has been promoted to Arkansas water team leader for Garver in Fayetteville. read more >

Maulden joined Entergy in 1984 as an industrial engineer and held several positions before taking charge of the economic development initiative Teamwork Arkansas in 1996. read more >

Garver of North Little Rock announced Wednesday that it has acquired Ruggles & Bohm, an engineering and design services firm based in Wichita, Kansas. read more >

The Arkansas Department of Transportation's Broadway Bridge project is up for the Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award in the America’s Transportation Awards. read more >

The Arkansas State Highway & Transportation Department was presented a bridge engineering award for the new Broadway Bridge at the International Bridge Conference in June. read more >

The gloom in Arkansas’ daily newspapers only deepened last month as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette cut the equivalent of 12 to 15 jobs while the parent company of GateHouse Media, which owns dailies in Pine Bluff, Fort Smith, Arkadelphia, Stuttgart and Hope, also signaled an appetite for more cuts. read more >

Bert Parker has been accepted as a member of the American Council of Engineering Companies College of Fellows. read more >

Some of Jerry Holder’s highest-profile projects are Interstate 540 in northwest Arkansas and the High-Five Interchange in Dallas. read more >

Shorter College Gardens Apartments in North Little Rock sold for $7.05 million while Willow Bend Apartments in Jacksonville sold for $4.25 million. read more >