
$500K Gift Brings ASO Music Center Closer to Groundbreaking
The original $9 million estimated cost of the project has grown due to rising interest rates and construction costs. read more >
The original $9 million estimated cost of the project has grown due to rising interest rates and construction costs. read more >
Stinziano joins the firm from Samsung Electronics America of New Jersey, where he was executive vice president of the consumer and enterprise business division. read more >
With three casinos operating in Arkansas, marketing heats up and ads proliferate. read more >
First Orion Corp. may already be outgrowing its $15 million five-story headquarters in North Little Rock’s Argenta district. read more >
An affiliate of Bridgestone Americas Inc. bought the 8,600-SF tire service project on Cantrell Road in Little Rock from an affiliate of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. read more >
Two centerpieces of a $65 million construction boom surrounding the new Argenta Plaza in North Little Rock — the First Orion Building and 600 Main — opened for move-ins recently, just in time for workers to start moving out because of the coronavirus pandemic. read more >
Advantage Capital announced Thursday that it has invested $2.3 million in First Orion, the parent company of PrivacyStar, a maker of call- and text-blocking software. read more >
Argenta’s one square mile has anchored some $500 million in downtown commercial projects in the past 20 years with the dedication of Argenta Plaza highlighting the latest development efforts. read more >
Charles Morgan, the chairman and CEO of First Orion, says the character of Arkansas’ workforce is a huge advantage for a tech company. read more >
The mission of the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences is twofold: to narrow the gap between open technology jobs in the state and the talent available to fill them, and to help existing businesses use data analytics to better compete. read more >
Privately held ConversionPoint Technologies Inc. of Newport Beach, California, has agreed to buy publicly traded Inuvo Inc. of Little Rock in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $75 million. read more >
First Orion of Little Rock breaks ground on its previously announced, six-story global headquarters at 520 Main St. in the Argenta Historic District of North Little Rock. read more >
Things are looking up for every officer at Inuvo Inc. of Little Rock; each saw his pay increase in 2017, according to an annual proxy statement the company filed a few weeks ago. read more >
Architect Bill Gray hopes to transform downtown North Little Rock into a business and residential beacon centered on the $4.4 million Argenta Plaza project and the mixed-use buildings set to rise around it. read more >
First Orion of Little Rock says it will move into a new, six-story office building on Main Street in the Argenta Historic District of North Little Rock. read more >
First Orion Corp. of Little Rock was expected to complete its $4 million private placement by the end of last month. read more >
Mike Preston of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and Charles Morgan of First Orion Corp. were the keynote speakers for the final day of the International Economic Development Council's annual Economic Future Forum in Little Rock. read more >
The International Economic Development Council is hosting its Economic Future Forum from Sunday-Tuesday at the Little Rock Marriott Hotel. read more >
With the sale last month of its Little Rock headquarters, plans to renovate its Conway campus and hopes of expanding its client base, Acxiom Corp. CEO Scott Howe says his company is evolving. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson kicks off the first meeting of his new Blue Ribbon Commission to Report on the Economic Competitiveness of Computing and Data Analytics in Arkansas. read more >