NWACC Adding Shewmaker Center

Bids for general contractors will be taken in September and October for the Shewmaker Center for Workforce Technologies at NorthWest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville.

School officials hope the $4.6 million, 44,000-SF project will be completed by November 2002.

NWACC’s 17-acre campus is just east of Interstate 540 near the U.S. Highway 62 (and Arkansas Highway 102) exit. The new building will be on the northwest corner of the campus on East/West Eagle Way.

NWACC’s workforce development programs include marketing and enhancement of work skills.

Jack Shewmaker and family donated $1 million for the project, as did Wal-Mart associates and Sam’s Club associates. Other monies came from state funds and bond issues.

NWACC is already undergoing two expansion projects that will cost about $5.3 million. A 13,000-SF expansion of the north end of the campus will provide additional space for the business offices, institutional technology, art, music and graphic design departments. That project, at a cost of $1.6 million, is expected to be completed in time for the fall semester.

Oakridge Builders Inc. of Springdale is the general contractor. And a $4.2 million, 40,000-SF west end expansion will include additional space for the science laboratories, allied health, distance learning program and criminal justice departments. Pat and Willard Walker of Springdale donated $2 million toward the expansion. The west end expansion should be ready by spring 2003.

Tenants Commit to Commerce Park

Ben Israel of Joyce Street LLC on June 15 purchased two more building permits totaling $3.16 million for Fayetteville’s Commerce Park.

Commerce Park will have four buildings in all totaling 70,000 SF. It is located on the southwest intersection of Joyce Boulevard and Old Missouri Road, just west of Paradise Valley Athletic Club.

A 35,540-SF building at 3715 N. Business Drive is expected to be completed by February. Bodiford Eye Clinic and Surgery Center of Fort Smith will have an office that will occupy 12,000 SF of that building. Northwest Health Clinic will take up about 10,000 SF.

A 20,500-SF building at 2153 E. Joyce Blvd. should be completed by Jan. 1. One of its first-floor tenants will be the Social Security Administration.

Also, a third building will be 9,100 SF, at 3714 N. Business Drive. About half of that space will be occupied by the dentist office of Dr. Tonya Smith.

Hometown Financial will be in a 5,500-SF building facing Joyce Boulevard. About 400 feet of Commerce Park property will front Joyce while another 400 feet will front Old Missouri.

Nabholz Construction Corp. of Rogers is the general contractor on all of the Commerce Park buildings. Atkins Benham Inc. of Lowell is the architectural firm for Commerce Park.

Israel, owner of Dixie Management & Investments, is the developer of Commerce Park. Other investors include Joe Kleine, B.W. Dykes, Dr. David Cannon and Owen Bushaw.

Lindseys Add to Cambridge

Brothers Lyndy and John David Lindsey secured a loan of $1.02 million from United Bank of Springdale to build 10 homes at a northeast Lowell subdivision.

Cambridge Place has 150 lots in all.

John David Lindsey and Kirk Elsass of L&E Equity Investments also purchased 12 more building permits totaling $1.3 million to add more homes at Cambridge.

The homes will be on Colley, Almoo and Pennington streets and will be about 1,575 SF each.

Mike Pennington originally developed the subdivision.

Arvest Adds Branch in West Fayetteville

Arvest McIlroy on June 15 purchased a building permit valued at $1.06 million to build an Arvest branch in Fayetteville west of Interstate 540.

Located at 1170 Salem Road, the branch bank will be in a business center — Arvest Wedington Court — akin to the one McIlroy’s branch is in at the intersection of Crossover Road and Mission Boulevard in east Fayetteville. The new bank will occupy 7,200 SF of the 25,200 total SF. It will be across Salem Road from the branch bank of Arkansas National Bank at the entrance of the Walnut Grove subdivision.

Lindsey Construction will be the general contractor on the project. Completion date is expected to be early spring.

Southfork Phase III Continues to Grow

Darin Riggins of Riggins Construction and Riggins Properties purchased 10 building permits valued at a total of $935,275 to add more home to a large southeast Lowell subdivision.

Phase III of Southfork subdivision, which will have 224 homes, will bring the subdivision’s total number of lots to 316.

Also, Mike and Tim Graham of Saddlewood Development Inc. purchased five more building permits valued at a total of $403,920 for more construction in Southfork.

The homes are located on either Emerald Street or Crystal Street.

Homes in Southfork range from $75,000 to $90,000 and range from 1,200 to 1,800 SF.

Lindsey to Build Bloomfield Homes

John David Lindsey got seven loans totaling $901,600 to add homes in a west Rogers subdivision.

Bloomfield subdivision, located near Interstate 540 off New Hope Road, has about 70 lots. The subdivision was developed by Darrow Garner.

Lindsey is building eight houses in all at Bloomfield. The homes will be about 2,100 SF each and be priced around $175,000 each.

Brightwood Addition Entering Third Phase

Tommy Walker Construction Co. of Rogers on June 11 secured five loans totaling $813,600 from First Western Bank of Rogers to continue addition at a Bentonville subdivision.

Phase III of Brightwood subdivision will have 31 lots, bringing the total to 143 lots in all three phases. It is located near Arkansas Highway 12. Homes range from a minimum of 1,600 SF to 2,200 SF, and will be priced from about $110,000-$150,000.

Deweese Building Homes in Silverthorne Subdivision

John Deweese of Fayetteville on July 2 purchased five building permits valued at a total of $707,658 to build homes in a west Fayetteville subdivision.

Silverthorne subdivision is located off Double Springs Road and south of Arkansas Highway 16.

Deweese is building homes at 6565 W. Mesa St., and 6477, 6478, 6564 and 6590 W. Pagosa Place. Those homes will range from 2,182 SF to 2,690 SF in size.

Kyle Mooty may be reached via e-mail at [email protected].