Reese Rowland

Led by the Saracen Casino Resort, which has a construction value of $215 million, Pine Bluff is seeing growth across the city unlike any in recent years. read more >

The checklist of finishing touches has dwindled to artwork at the new Bank OZK headquarters in west Little Rock. The grandest of the yet-to-arrive artisan pieces has reserved placement outside the 248,000-SF office building clad in glass, granite and zinc. read more >

The new Bank OZK headquarters is envisioned as a spectacular calling card to recruit new talent to come and work for the company and an amenity-laden investment to retain staffers. read more >

Tommy Ray Polk, founding partner of Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects of Little Rock and mentor to generations of Arkansas architects, died on April 28. He was 79. read more >

A year after investing $25 million for a piece of downtown Little Rock, Simmons Bank continues to sort through details to make the former Acxiom headquarters its own. read more >

Associated General Contractors of Arkansas, the American Council of Engineering Companies in Arkansas, the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Plumbing Engineers announced Thursday the 2018 Arkansas Construction Hall of Fame inductees. read more >

Spending on construction projects across the country could rise by 4 percent this year over 2017, which is welcome news for Arkansas architects and engineers. read more >

Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects' design of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library and Learning Center in Little Rock has been honored in the American Institute of Steel Construction’s annual awards. read more >

Robinson Center is a multipurpose venue. It must accommodate the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Broadway plays, Ballet Arkansas and commencement ceremonies — in addition to conventions and conferences — and each of these has different and sometimes even opposite technical requirements, particularly acoustical requirements. read more >

Reese Rowland has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, awarded to fewer than 4 percent of AIA members. He was one of 46 architects selected in the design category. The fellowship program honors architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and their communities. read more >

Meeting planners, when doing what they do best, now have — or will soon have — some revamped spaces to consider in Little Rock, Hot Springs and Mena. read more >

Money remains tight in what continues to be a slow economic recovery, but the plans for Robinson presented last week, which feature a stunning glass-walled conference space overlooking the river, use the city’s great asset, the fast-flowing Arkansas, to beautiful effect. read more >

After several bumpy years, the U.S. Marshals Museum project in Fort Smith is starting to gain traction. The $50 million project, to be situated on the banks of the Arkansas River near downtown Fort Smith, was first proposed in 2008. read more >

The Central Arkansas Library System’s $12 million Children’s Library & Learning Center will open next month on the south side of Interstate 630, and its developers hope it will transform the surrounding neighborhoods of midtown Little Rock. read more >