Arkansas Capital Corp. Eyes More Interstate Opportunity
After stepping up during the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit Arkansas Capital Corp. sees “a banner year for loan volume” as lending activity gets busy. read more >
After stepping up during the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit Arkansas Capital Corp. sees “a banner year for loan volume” as lending activity gets busy. read more >
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic — or possibly because of it — 2020 was the best year for business applications in the United States on record. read more >
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused turmoil and operational adjustments in the business world, but real estate developers said the office market shouldn’t change much in northwest Arkansas. read more >
The former 1,234-bed Veterans Administration hospital at 300 E. Roosevelt Road in downtown Little Rock is awaiting a new name to accompany a change of ownership. read more >
Pace Burt's $2 million purchase of the 10-story AT&T Building in downtown Little Rock sets the stage for transforming the office tower into apartments. read more >
Natural Capital’s new commercial real estate entity wears its heart in its name, Heartland Affordable Housing. But the private investment group’s motives aren’t just altruistic. read more >
While helping Natural Capital get into the affordable housing market, Cushman & Wakefield/Sage Partners also brokered an $8.54 million sale of Little Rock’s Colony West Shopping Center in late January. read more >
The Quapaw Nation of Oklahoma, owner of the Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff, says a forensic audit expected to be completed this month indicates that $34 million in tribal casino profits from Oklahoma were misspent by the previous tribal business administration. read more >
The COVID-19 pandemic and its consequent unemployment have put stress on renters and apartment properties in the United States, the National Association of Realtors Research Group noted in its February 2021 “Commercial Market Insights” report, released March 1. read more >
The owners of a string of Little Rock-area hotels and motels have taken a shared property tax grievance to Pulaski County Circuit Court that could have implications across the state. read more >
The Momentary opened to great fanfare in February 2020 in Bentonville, celebrating itself as the relaxed “living room” contemporary art satellite museum of the famed Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. read more >
The stage is set for an especially busy year of progress on the Delta Heritage Trail. Construction will be complete or in motion on more than 24 miles of biking-hiking pathway in east Arkansas backed by an estimated $9.4 million during 2021. read more >
Some in the hospitality industry question the timing of raising the federal minimum to $15, fearing added burdens could halt recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
International tourist arrivals fell 74% in 2020 compared with 2019, according to the World Tourism Organization. That’s equal to a decline of about 1.1 billion international arrivals, a level not seen since the late 1980s and early 1990s. read more >
For Arkansas event planners, the pandemic created opportunities for new ways, born of necessity, of putting on a show. read more >
The work-from-home model many employers rushed to adopt during COVID-19 and are expected to keep post-pandemic requires a rethinking of cybersecurity measures, communication strategies and employee work-life balance. read more >
Private cloud users stand to gain more predictable pricing, better security that’s the result of knowing where their data is and having more control over it, and greater customization, according to three providers of private cloud service in Arkansas. read more >
Death is always a sensitive topic, but particularly so a year into a pandemic that has killed nearly half a million Americans. Jeff Smith of the growing Smith Family Funeral Homes chain tackles it head-on. read more >
The Arkansas General Assembly is expected to pass legislation to forgive taxes on unemployment benefits paid to Arkansans in 2020 and 2021, in part because unemployment scams ran rampant. read more >
The annual mean wage of information security analysts in Arkansas averaged $83,930 in 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the United States as a whole it was $104,210. read more >
