P3 Group Partners With SEARK on Student Housing, $7.24M Endowment
The 171-bed development on the Pine Bluff campus will addressing the housing needs of the growing student population. read more >
The 171-bed development on the Pine Bluff campus will addressing the housing needs of the growing student population. read more >
Signature Bank of Arkansas will take over the former Bank of Rogers building, which first opened in 1906, to open a bilingual-staffed banking office. read more >
The Arkansas Delta Informer's mission is to highlight economic development and cultural tourism in the region, but founders say it won't shy away from bad-news topics. read more >
The move comes amid widespread service complaints and questions from federal regulators about rail capacity. read more >
Developers say COVID-19 delayed the project, but a new timeline has been set to complete the next major steps. read more >
Pine Bluff has never lacked for boosters, but there must be more than sentimental nostalgia for a once-great city to create real, sustainable growth. read more >
Fort Smith returned to the top of the Arkansas Tech University Business Index in September, and also led the way in the third-quarter rankings. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate dropped five-tenths of a percentage point in January compared to numbers from a year ago. read more >
House prices and single-family building permits were down in most metropolitan statistical areas in Arkansas in the fourth quarter of 2013. read more >
The unemployment rates in all of Arkansas’ metropolitan statistical areas increased in the fourth quarter of 2013, except in Fort Smith where it remained unchanged from the previous quarter. read more >
George Makris Jr. is a product of Pine Bluff, leaving his hometown only for college (a bachelor’s in business administration from Rhodes College at Memphis in 1978 and an MBA from the University of Arkansas in 1980) and for a four-year stint in Little Rock so that the youngest of his three sons could play tennis for Little Rock Central High. read more >
Debe Hollingsworth was swept into the Pine Bluff mayor's office Nov. 6 with such a strong electoral wave that no runoff vote was required, despite a ballot of nine candidates. She is the first woman to serve as Pine Bluff’s mayor since Carolyn Robinson was elected in 1984. read more >
