
2020 Brought Feast, Famine to Private Companies
Data collected for this week’s list of private companies illustrated the uneven and sometimes counterintuitive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries. read more >
Data collected for this week’s list of private companies illustrated the uneven and sometimes counterintuitive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries. read more >
Since December, construction totaling more than $225 million has been completed on some of the largest K-12 projects in Arkansas. read more >
Home to Gates Corp., the property on Laura Lane was bought for $2.95 million by Mathias Shopping Center Inc. The seller was Elder-Conway LLC, led by Chris Elder of Springdale. read more >
The increasing popularity of cross-laminated timber as a building material has an Arkansas professor working on ways to transform a waste byproduct of CLT production into a construction material itself. read more >
Contractor C.R. Crawford Construction LLC of Fayetteville has sued a Tulsa hotelier in Washington County Circuit Court for breach of a $7.5 million contract. read more >
Work on a $3.2 million 26-unit apartment building in downtown Springdale is expected to start soon. read more >
This marks the fifth consecutive year that the roster of largest commercial construction projects in Arkansas topped $2 billion. The 2018 list consists of 160 projects around the state that represent a combined dollar total of $2.1 billion. read more >
Contractor C.R. Crawford Construction LLC of Fayetteville has sued a Tulsa hotelier in Washington County Circuit Court for terminating a $7 million contract. read more >
Revenue at Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield topped $2.5 billion last year, a milestone achieved by only one other company in the 30 years that Arkansas Business has been ranking private companies by revenue. read more >
Commercial development is thriving in Conway, evidenced by the nearly complete $65 million Lewis Crossing shopping center and plans for a startup space the city hopes will attract new and existing companies. read more >
The health care industry is expanding to keep up with northwest Arkansas’ growing population, and it’s not just construction companies that are benefiting. read more >
Richard Johnson, C.R. Crawford’s director of business development, attributes the company’s success to leadership from the owners, Cody Crawford, Jason Keathley and Scott Stokenbury. read more >
There’s progress to report on the first John Daly’s Steakhouse, planned for 912 Front St. in Conway. read more >
One of the big puzzle pieces in Conway’s retail development picture is almost complete: Lewis Crossing, the 441,871-SF, $65 million shopping center at the southeast corner of Interstate 40 and Dave Ward Drive. read more >
Jones most recently worked as senior business development consultant for the Joshua Consulting Group LLC, and previously as director of program management services for Nabholz Construction Services and as program manager for what is now Atkins North America. read more >