New E-Commerce Park to Meet Major Manufacturing Needs in Northeast Arkansas
Jonesboro answers calls for space with new hub, a 263-acre logistics, warehousing and digital fulfillment center. read more >
Jonesboro answers calls for space with new hub, a 263-acre logistics, warehousing and digital fulfillment center. read more >
A 175-acre mixed-use development called Southern Hills is taking shape in southwest Jonesboro as developers court a large retail anchor tenant and plan to wrap up infrastructure work there within a few weeks. read more >
It's been one year since the $8 million center opened. read more >
The Uptown retail project attracts tenants displaced by March 2020 tornado. read more >
Arkansas cities that feared economic repercussions from a proposed statistical change need worry no longer; that plan has been abandoned by the federal Office of Management & Budget. read more >
Four Arkansas cities and their surrounding areas face demotion and possible economic repercussions if a proposed statistical change is adopted by the federal Office of Management & Budget. read more >
Nestlé USA says it will invest more than $100 million to expand its production facility in Jonesboro and hire at least 100 new employees over the next two years. read more >
Jonesboro received two grants totaling $2.5 million to install a new rail storage facility near the Craighead Technology Park that will benefit manufacturers by giving them greater capacity to move products. read more >
After a few months of dormancy, Jonesboro's economy is getting up to speed as business owners and developers use unexpected savings, federal stimulus money and assistance programs to build, enhance and improve. read more >
While Arkansas’ phased, reopening of businesses is underway, tenants of the storm-ravaged Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro are trying to figure out where their businesses are going to be. read more >
“Just like communities all across the United States, we’re certainly not immune to the challenges that the COVID virus presented,” Mark Young of Jonesboro Unlimited told Arkansas Business. read more >
Hefei Risever Machinery Co. Ltd officials, joined by state and local leaders, held a ribbon cutting Wednesday for its new $20 million-plus, 125,000-SF Jonesboro plant in the Craighead Technology Park. read more >
Economic development leaders in Jonesboro welcomed a report showing robust job growth in Craighead County, but they hope it's just a signpost on the way to even better numbers. read more >
Mark Young and William “Goose” Changose have joined the board of directors of the Arkansas Association of Asian Businesses. read more >
Propelled by a handful of large commercial projects, the number of building permits in the city nearly doubled in 2018, with the total value of residential and commercial permits coming in near $288 million. read more >
Risever's $20 million 125,000-SF facility in Jonesboro, which will create 130 jobs, will be its first outside of China. read more >
The two new osteopathic medical schools in Arkansas are being flooded with applications from students who want to be doctors. read more >
Jonesboro Unlimited, a nonprofit economic development partnership, says a five-year strategic plan to create high-paying jobs is showing results. read more >
Communities in northeast Arkansas saw record growth in 2017, including sales tax revenue and employment gains across the region. read more >
Smack in the middle of a business surge driven by the e-commerce revolution sits Jonesboro and northeast Arkansas, the little-known conveyor capital of the United States. read more >
