Fort Smith Fights to Find Its 'Best Version'
Fort Smith’s growth lags behind that of Little Rock and northwest Arkansas, but city leaders say there is cause for optimism. read more >
Tagged: Chaffee Crossing
Arkansas Emerges as Bull’s-eye for Gun Trade
A growing list of gun manufacturers with Arkansas facilities are currently employing more than 3,000. read more >
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education Develops $11M Village
Heritage Village, a walkable neighborhood with both commercial and residential space, is now under development on the Barling side of Chaffee Crossing across from the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education. read more >
Craft Brews Make Home in Fort Smith
It was love that brought Quentin Willard back to Fort Smith, and it was love that led him, with business partner Brooke Elder, to found Fort Smith Brewing Co. read more >
New Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine a High-Tech Wonder
Kyle Parker has brought his faith in the benefits of technology to his latest project: the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, the medical school that opened in August in Fort Smith. read more >
ERC Announces $8M Residential Development in Chaffee Crossing
ERC Holdings LLC of Fort Smith announces an $8 million luxury duplex development at Wells Lake Road and Custer Boulevard in Chaffee Crossing. read more >
Dry Spell for Fort Smith Brewing Set To End
If the permits come through and everything falls into place, Fort Smith Brewing Co. should be up and running next year — the earlier the better, as far as Brooke Elder is concerned. read more >
Chaffee Crossing Continues Growth in Fort Smith
While it seems today that Chaffee Crossing is one of those blessed developments that seems to fall into one handsome deal after another, Ivy Owen, the executive director of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority in Fort Smith, remembers a much leaner time. read more >
Spartan Logistics Puts Its Money on Fort Smith
In the past 18 months, Spartan Logistics of Columbus, Ohio, says it has invested approximately $20 million to buy and renovate more than 1 million SF of Fort Smith warehouse space. read more >
Manufacturer Plans $80M Paper Plant, Up to 83 Jobs in Fort Smith
P.H. Glatfelter Co. of York, Pennsylvania, a publicly traded manufacturer of specialty papers and other fiber-based materials,says it will — subject to local approval — open a plant in Fort Smith that will create up to 83 jobs. read more >
Big Plans for Community Surround Planned Osteopathic College in Fort Smith
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education CEO Kyle Parker has hired a first-rate lineup of consultants to devise the best way to build a residential-retail-commercial community. read more >
Hugg & Hall Gets New Site in Fort Smith
Super Properties III LLC, led by John Hugg and Robert Hall, bought a 16.2-acre property at 7101 S. Zero St. Hugg & Hall paid just shy of $2.5 million to Alawest-AL LLC. read more >
Plans for Small Shopping Center on Fayetteville's MLK Taking Shape
Rodney Ghan and Bob Cooper of R.H. Ghan & Cooper Commercial Properties of Fort Smith have bought a lot on West Martin Luther King Boulevard in Fayetteville with the intent of developing a two-tenant shopping center. read more >
Investment, Jobs Buoy Fort Smith's Chaffee Crossing
Chaffee Crossing, the 7,000-acre Army surplus property in Fort Smith, continues to be a popular development destination in its new civilian life, playing host to a spate of expansion and relocation announcements during the past year. read more >
Developments Old, New Suit Fort Smith
Fort Smith is not only the site of the future U.S. Marshals Museum, but also nearly 1,000 new jobs (by 2021) and a new $30 million headquarters for ArcBest Corp. on the east side of town at Chaffee Crossing. read more >
Fort Smith Osteopathic School Picks Architect
The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education of Fort Smith recently named Risley & Associates of Fort Smith as the lead architect to build the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, a job estimated at $75 million. read more >
Fort Chaffee Donates Land to Osteopathic Medical School in Fort Smith
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday donated 200 acres to a project that aims to open an osteopathic medical school there by fall 2017. read more >
Communities Meet at Chaffee Crossing
The spotlight of the Fort Smith business community has been locked on Chaffee Crossing. The 7,000 acres of mixed-use development sits on property once used as part of the legendary Fort Chaffee and is now providing new jobs, business expansion, infrastructure partnerships, new home construction, commercial development, community partnerships. historical preservation, schools, libraries and highways. read more >
Chaffee Crossing in Fort Smith Continues to Attract Projects
A drive through the intersection of Zero Street and Massard Road in Fort Smith illustrates what a popular spot for local businesses the area has become. A bank, a shopping center and a mini-storage complex are among the enterprises that have set up shop near where the two streets meet. read more >
No Endangered Beetles at Barling Mall Site
A proposed 70-acre mall at Barling cleared a regulatory hurdle when a survey turned up no endangered beetles on the property. read more >
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