Metroplan Awards $16.5M in Transportation Grants
Fifteen projects that address safety and congestion issues in central Arkansas received funds. read more >
Fifteen projects that address safety and congestion issues in central Arkansas received funds. read more >
Covington follows Tab Townsell in the role. Townsell, a former Conway mayor, retired earlier this year after leading the organization for six years. read more >
Retail sales have been volatile in recent years. read more >
Rising interest rates are taking a toll. read more >
The biggest changes were in the wholesale trade and especially the transportation-warehouse-utility sectors. read more >
Six projects across the state received funds. read more >
“There are signs of structural economic change underway,” Metroplan said in a December report, pointing to the area’s manufacturing and logistics sectors in particular. read more >
The greatest uptick was in North Little Rock. read more >
Based on this year’s trends, deaths in 2022 will come in lower than in 2021. Regional population will continue growing, but more slowly than in the past. read more >
Other Arkansas cities plan greenways of their own. read more >
Housing starts in the region hit a 14-year high. Meanwhile, affordability remained among the best in the nation, according to Metroplan. read more >
Half the funds will go toward restoring the historic Saline River Bridge near Benton. read more >
Although most industries saw losses during the period, U.S. warehousing jobs grew quickly, according to Metroplan’s latest report on economic trends in the region. read more >
Job growth is running at a slightly slower pace than the national average, but the region has advantages in other areas. read more >
Arkansas' costliest road project ever barrels ahead on $1.1B journey. read more >
In 2020, for the second decade in a row, central Arkansas cities slightly grew in urban density, or people per square mile, according to Metroplan, the area’s planning agency. read more >
Like the rest of the United States, the ethnic mix in the Little Rock metropolitan statistical area saw substantial change between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. read more >
The 2020 U.S. Census showed the three largest cities in central Arkansas all grew, with Little Rock passing the 200,000 mark to reach 202,591. read more >
Population growth in the United States, Arkansas and central Arkansas slowed from 2010-2020 compared with the previous decade, U.S. Census Bureau tallies and the accompanying chart show. read more >
With its population surging, northwest Arkansas shows that it's healthy to go into something all together. read more >
