Mark Beach: CDI Contractors
CDI's new president and CEO read more >
CDI's new president and CEO read more >
The addition brings the total number of critical care beds at the hospital to 44. read more >
Ogenche will focus on electrical design, calculating lighting, voltage and circuit currents as well as developing construction documents. read more >
The $31 million hub will include commercial kitchens and community space and improve access to locally produced food. read more >
Garrison will remain with the company as chairman for a period of time. read more >
Heading into the pandemic, you might have doubted that Dillard’s would emerge intact, with record profits and share prices. But that’s exactly what happened. read more >
The face of a $150 million energy project at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences peers down on visitors to the northeast side of the Little Rock campus, just behind the Markham Street Walgreens. read more >
Sam Ellis has been named vice president of IT and chief information security officer of Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock, and Antoine Lucas has been named vice president of engineering. read more >
Construction of the $50 million United States Marshals Museum in Fort Smith began Thursday. read more >
Jonathan Adams has been hired as business development officer in central and south Arkansas for Nabholz Construction in Conway. read more >
The U.S. Marshals Museum today announced it has named CDI Contractors of Little Rock as the construction consultant for its 50,000-SF facility and is working to complete the building's schematic architectural design. read more >
Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock held a grand opening celebration Tuesday for its new $30 million, 90,000-SF Center for Humanities and Arts. read more >
Pulaski Technical College will celebrate the completion of its new $30 million Center for Humanities and the Arts with a public grand opening celebration at 2 p.m. Tuesday at its main campus. read more >
Dillard's Inc. of Little Rock reports net income of $109.6 million, down about 2 percent from the same time last year as same-store sales slid 1 percent. "We are disappointed with our first quarter performance," Dillard's CEO William T. Dillard II said in a news release. read more >
Workforce development has become a popular issue as industry leaders have said they have a hard time finding enough quality workers to fill their needs. It’s a renewed focus of groups like the Northwest Arkansas Council, which recently announced a three-year plan to strengthen the area’s workforce development and the ties between employers and schools. read more >
The Outlets at Little Rock will open this summer. Michael Barelli, vice president of New England Development, recently talked to Arkansas Business about the 325,000-SF shopping center coming to central Arkansas. read more >
A 123,000-SF Kroger Marketplace under construction in Benton is worth $12 million, according to the building permit on file with the city. read more >
The valuation of large commercial projects underway in Arkansas approached $2.2 billion, nearly double the tally from a year ago. The big leap was thanks in no small measure to the $700 million construction contract for the Big River Steel Mill manufacturing facility near Osceola. 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 >
The University of Central Arkansas Board of Trustees on Friday unanimously approved a 3.86 percent increase for tuition and fees in the next academic year. read more >
