Southeast Arkansas Economic Development District

The investment will be matched with $515,013 in local funds and is expected to create 54 jobs and generate $79 million in private investment. read more >

A Vietnamese company that makes nitrile gloves is coming to Lake Village. Phu Duc Huy US Inc. is buying 15 acres of land for a production plant, said Shane Knight, […] read more >

The Chicot County project is set to be first of kind in South. read more >

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Thursday that a $10.5 million grant will be awarded to southeast Arkansas through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America program. read more >

Eddie Thomas champions education, but when he entered the University of Arkansas at Monticello out of Warren High in 1997, like many teenagers he was unprepared for the commitment and dropped out. read more >

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 >

Caddo River Forest Products plans to reopen a sawmill in Glenwood, investing $50 million and creating 136 new jobs and up to 300 new "indirect" jobs in the area. read more >

In the sleepy town of DeWitt, past a wooden sign labeled “ArcoFeed,” within the walls of a half-ruined filling station, there sits a metal box that could be the future of a small-scale biofuel industry throughout the Delta. read more >