Prominent museum supporters, including Harriet and Warren Stephens and Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr., celebrated the groundbreaking of the near-$100 million renovation and expansion of the Arkansas Arts Center in downtown Little Rock’s MacArthur Park. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center announces Victoria Ramirez, director of the El Paso Museum of Art, as its new executive director. read more >
Five years after its founding, Roadie, the crowdsourced delivery service startup based in Atlanta, has attracted partnerships with major retailers, including Walmart, and, in February, $37 million in new funding. read more >
The late founder of Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale and the CEO of Stephens Inc. of Little Rock are among the latest inductees to the University of Arkansas' Arkansas Business Hall of Fame. read more >
A 126-room hotel in west Little Rock, an 11,948-SF medical office building in midtown Little Rock and a 17 percent stake in a west Little Rock apartment project form a few of this week’s million-dollar-plus real estate transactions. read more >
Layman Lane LLC, led by Graham Smith and Russell James, bought the more than 85 acres at 10601 Layman Road from Glenda C. Pehrson Family Ltd. read more >
An affiliate of DavisRE of Dallas bought the 240-unit apartment project in west Little Rock. The seller is Out In The Woods LLLP, led by James Jackson and Haskell Dickinson II. read more >
Bill Tedford has left Stephens Inc. after 51 years, along with son Alan, and they have hooked up with the other side of the Stephens family. read more >
Stephens Inc., which launched a multimedia series in May dedicated to bolstering the image of capitalism, is focusing on one of its own — Jack Stephens — in its latest short film in the series. read more >
Stephens Inc. announced Monday that it has launched a multimedia series called “This Is Capitalism,” featuring short films on some of the heroes of capitalism in the United States, including Warren Stephens’ father, Jackson T. Stephens. read more >
Dillard’s Inc. of Little Rock spent $1.9 million in fiscal 2016 with Warren Stephens’ Stephens Insurance LLC. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson forms a blue ribbon commission to study how to grow the state's computer science and data analytics sector. The 19-member commission is co-chaired by Acxiom Corp. founder Charles Morgan and Arkansas Economic Development Commission Executive Director Mike Preston. read more >
The Alotian Club, a private golf club owned by Little Rock financier Warren Stephens, will host the 23rd Arnold Palmer Cup in 2019. read more >
The Walton family has fallen out of the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of the country's 400 richest people. read more >
The 20,952-SF building at 114 E. Capitol Ave. was demolished as part of the Little Rock Technology Park development. read more >
A banking and finance resource to help navigate the leadership of the largest Arkansas companies or institutions. read more >
Renovation for the first phase of the planned Little Rock Technology Park is expected to begin in April after tech park board members on Monday signed closing documents to purchase properties along Main Street. read more >
Rich guys — Stephens, Walton, Bezos, Buffett — have bought and sold newspapers since memory of man runneth not to the contrary, but they don't do it anonymously. There can be no honorable reason for a newspaper's owner to be a mystery. read more >
The list once again is led by Microsoft's Bill Gates. Wal-Mart heir Jim Walton leads a group of Arkansans and those with close ties to the state included on the list. read more >
The relationship between Marc Gorlin, the founder and CEO of Atlanta startup Roadie, and Warren Stephens, CEO of Stephens Inc., goes back to the late ’90s, Gorlin says. read more >
