Gratis Industrial Ground Remains a Go-To Incentive
Unlike other companies calling, Amazon didn’t focus on incentives when it paid the market rate for its future distribution center property. read more >
Unlike other companies calling, Amazon didn’t focus on incentives when it paid the market rate for its future distribution center property. read more >
Hiring for Amazon's distribution centers in North Little Rock and the Port of Little Rock is set to begin in late May, with expected starting dates in mid- to late summer. read more >
Jeremiah Anderson has been hired by the Little Rock Regional Chamber as director of business attraction. He will work with the chamber to attract new businesses to the region. read more >
The Little Rock Region features a diverse and vital economy that provides an environment where businesses of all types can grow and thrive. read more >
Land and utilities converge to give the region an ideal intermodal network, near the country’s geographic and population centers. read more >
With the presence of the Little Rock Tech Park, The Venture Center, FIS FinTech Accelerator program and the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, among other assets, the Little Rock Region is becoming known and respected in the startups/innovation sector. read more >
Little Rock not only offers but promotes a lifetime of learning. From innovative, public pre-K for all to graduate offerings unique to the planet, the region values education and economic development as inseparable. read more >
Arkansas’ performance-based incentives are nationally competitive and easy to use. The City of Little Rock has also funded performance-based incentives to complement those of the state. The chamber, in partnership with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and city, focuses on a business’ specific needs and designs a tailored incentive package unique to that business. read more >
Entergy Arkansas and the Little Rock Regional Chamber are putting on a virtual show for businesses interested in locating in Arkansas, offering detailed online tours of buildings ready for service. read more >
The Little Rock Regional Chamber hires Raymond Omar Long as director of business retention and expansion. read more >
The Venture Center and Little Rock Regional Chamber have opened applications for Spark!, a pre-accelerator program for central Arkansas startups. read more >
Lexicon Fabricators and Constructors of Little Rock plans to deliver 4,000 face shields for health care workers to six central Arkansas hospitals next week. read more >
Little Rock city leaders on Tuesday unanimously approved the $3.2 million sale of land in the Little Rock Port to an entity backed by Amazon, which plans to put a distribution center there. read more >
The Venture Center and Little Rock Regional Chamber announced Tuesday a new program called Origin. read more >
Brent Birch, chief of the Little Rock Technology Park, says the ability for entrepreneurs to share experiences is paramount. read more >
AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson talks about the future of 5G internet during the 154th annual meeting of the Little Rock Regional Chamber. read more >
Metro Little Rock schools have accelerated a plan to put all 13,000 public high school students in Pulaski County on career-themed paths. The effort also aims to recast public schools as magnets for central Arkansas economic development, not impediments. read more >
Express Rx opened its new headquarters in Little Rock last week and plans to create 24 upper-level management and support staff jobs. read more >
The Little Rock Regional Chamber says AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson will speak at its Dec. 4 annual meeting. read more >
Tim Cain has been selected as director of the Arkansas Division of Public School Academic Facilities & Transportation, where he will oversee facility and transportation programs that assist public schools in the state. read more >
