Crossland Makes Bentonville Grade

Crossland Construction Co. of Rogers recently bought two building permits for construction at Bentonville High School. One permit, valued at $9.2 million, is for a 200,000-SF football and track stadium. Another permit, valued at $6.1 million, is for construction of a 80,593-SF athletic field house.

Hight-Jackson Associates of Rogers is the architect, and Tatum Structural Engineering of Rogers is the engineer. Both projects are scheduled to be finished in April 2005 and were funded through $3 million in private donations and a 4.9 mill tax increase that generated $70 million in construction funds for all of Bentonville Public Schools.

The millage increase will also cover the 300,000-SF addition to Bentonville High School that awaits final plan approval and a future second elementary school. The football stadium will seat 5,000 and include artificial turf and a 2,200-SF press box with a glass wall.

The field house will be built for use as an indoor practice facility and will include artificial turf, two full sets of dressing rooms, six coaches offices and a large audiovisual-capable classroom.

Construction on the BHS addition is scheduled to begin by the end of 2003.

Mathias Designates Erin for Duplexes

Mathias Construction of Springdale recently purchased 14 building permits valued at $2.5 million to build 12 duplex buildings and two three-plex buildings at Erin Place in Springdale. The location is just east of Arkansas Highway 265 off of Emma Avenue.

The duplex units will be about 800 SF each, and the three-plex units will be about 1,500 SF each.

James Mathias of Mathias Construction is the developer of the complex. Landtech Engineering of Springdale is the engineer, and Mathias Construction drew its own design plans. The first units will be available for rent in April.

Commerce Builds at Industrial Park

Sellers Properties Inc. recently bought a building permit valued at $2 million to build a 50,000-SF consumer testing lab at 2601 S.E. Otis Corley Drive in the Bentonville Industrial Park.

Commerce Plaza LLC, of which Mark Marquess and Dan Dykema are members, is the developer. Robert D. Architects of Eureka Springs is the architect, and CEI Engineering Associates Inc. of Bentonville is the engineer. Great Southern Bank of Springfield is financing the construction.

The building has been pre-leased, but details about the tenant are not yet being released.

Hunnicutt Cuts Retail Center

Hunnicutt Construction Co. Inc. of Fayetteville recently bought a building permit valued at $1.3 million to build a 23,206-SF retail building at 1100 S.E. 14th St. in Bentonville.

The building will be located close to the southeast corner of the intersection of “J” Street and Arkansas Highway 102. The building shell, which includes 14 spaces of about 1,584 SF each, should be complete by April.

Miller Boskus Lack Architects of Springdale is the architect. Rick Thomas of California is the developer.

APNA Lands Loan for Futrall

APNA Investments LLC of Springdale recently secured a $1.1 million mortgage from First National Bank of Springdale for a 1.92-acre property at 1000 S. Futrall Drive in Fayetteville. The property is known as the Red Roof Inn.

Narenda M. Krushiker and Piyush Patel are members of APNA Investments. Krushiker, of the Krushiker Hospitality Group, also owns the Hampton Inn and the Days Inn in Springdale. Krushiker bought the property from Fayetteville Arkansas Hotels LP in 1999 for $725,000.

AK Oks Office Space

AK Enterprises Inc. recently bought a building permit valued at $1 million to build a 15,000-SF office/retail space in Central Park Place at 2201 E. Central Ave. in Bentonville.

AK Enterprises is the general contractor. Eldon Blackaby, a partner in AK, is also a member of Vision Development LLC, the developer of the building. The space will include up to 10 units at 1,500 SF each.

The building is being added to an existing office and storage facility on the property that is owned by ZOE Corp., another Blackaby firm. Craig Hull of Hull & Associates in Bentonville is the leasing agent for the space that will lease for a base price of $12.75 per SF per month, including some “finish out” work.

Mangold Construction & Architecture in Rogers is the architect. Sand Creek Engineering & Landscape Architecture Inc. of Bentonville is the engineer. Vision bought the 1.2-acre parcel from ZOE Corp. in October. No purchase price was listed on the deed. First Western Bank of Bentonville is financing the construction.

The space should be complete in May.

Blackaby is also involved in a venture called Gobble Acres LLC that has plans for a yet-unnamed, 80-acre subdivision in Cave Springs. Blackaby, along with wife Sherry and Gary and Freida Shook, is a partner in the development.

Gobble Acres bought the 80-acre parcel from Gary and Freida Shook for $425,000 in July. The 205-lot subdivision got preliminary plat approval from the city of Cave Springs and will be using an alternative sewer system that allows the lot size to be more dense. Final sewer plans are still being decided. Part of the subdivision is located on a former turkey farm.

Houses will be a minimum of 1,700 SF. About 2.75 acres on the south side of the subdivision near Arkansas Highway 264 are zoned “commercial.”

Sand Creek Engineering & Landscape Architecture Inc. drew the preliminary plans.

Basic Builds Strip Center

Basic Construction Co. of Springdale recently bought a building permit to build a 16,000-SF retail building valued at $493,536 at 2921 S. Old Missouri Road in Springdale.

The center is near the corner of Electric Avenue and Old Missouri Road.

Perry Butcher & Associates of Rogers is the architect, and Joseph Looney & Associates of Lowell is the engineer. Lease rates have not been determined, although the developer, Gary Combs, has pre-leased 4,000 SF of the space to Dr. Thomas Atkinson.

The space will be custom-finished according to tenant specifications, and the building shell should be complete by March. The development is being done with private financing.