Dixie Reaches Brighton Heights (Real Deals)

Dixie Management & Investments LP has begun dirt work on two new Bentonville subdivisions with a build-out value of more than $40 million based on total construction costs. Both of the subdivisions will feature a community pool, clubhouse and playground.

The firm will submit final plat approval in November for Brighton Heights, an 87-lot, 20-acre residential development off Bright Road in Bentonville that will have five exclusive builders. Dixie Construction LLC of Fayetteville is completing the site work and home construction should begin by the end of November.

The 123 lots in Brighton average 0.23 acres and homes will be a minimum of 2,200 SF. Homes will sell from $110 per SF and will be built in the traditional and country-French styles. Freeland-Kauffman & Fredeen Inc. of Rogers was the engineer. Home construction in Eden’s Brooke, a 50-acre project off Arkansas Highway 12 in Bentonville, should start in spring 2005. Homes will have a 2,000-SF minimum and will sell from $110 per SF. Dixie Construction is completing raw site preparation for the subdivision that will have exclusive builders.

Steve Clark of Clark Consulting of Fayetteville is the engineer.

Baldwin Shapes Up Three In Metropark

Baldwin & Shell Construction Co. of Rogers recently started construction on three office buildings in the Metropark complex off Horsebarn Road in Rogers. Collins Haynes is the developer of the 7-acre complex that upon completion is expected to be valued at $12 million.

Metropark will eventually have five buildings ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 SF. The first three buildings will occupy 4.5 acres. Haynes & Associates Ltd. is the architect. Sand Creek Engineering & Landscape Architecture Inc. of Bentonville is the civil engineer, and Jason Meyers of Meyers Engineering of Van Buren is the structural engineer on the Metropark buildings.

Haynes Limited is the architect. Arvest Bank-Rogers and Chambers Bank are both financing the development.

The 10,000-SF Lewis Building will eventually be owned and occupied by Rob Lewis and will house Ozark Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery PA.

The 20,000-SF Haynes Building will be the new office of Haynes & Associates as well as other tenants. San Antonio-based MasterFoodsServices, a division of Mars Inc., will occupy all 20,000 SF of the third building under construction. The MasterFoods building will mirror the Haynes building.

Office space in Metropark will lease from $18 per SF annually. Haynes said construction on a fourth 20,000-SF building will begin soon.

General Mills Packs for Peaks

EWI Constructors Inc. of Fayetteville has started construction on a 40,000-SF office building valued at $6 million in The Peaks development in Rogers.

Minneapolis-based retail vendor General Mills Inc. will occupy 20,000 SF of the building by July 2005.

Collins Haynes, Gary Combs, John Ed Chambers, John David Lindsey, Neil Johnson and Gerald Johnston are the developers of the mixed-use 158-acre Peaks complex. It will include commercial, retail, multifamily and single-family components.

Haynes & Associates Ltd. is the architect. Morrison Shipley Engineers of Lowell is the civil engineer. Meyers Engineering of Van Buren is the structural engineer. Chambers Bank is financing the construction. Future plans call for a 50,000-SF office building to be located north of the General Mills building.

Terminella Develops College Avenue Building

Nabholz Construction Corp. of Rogers recently started site work for a new 20,000-SF building valued at $5 million at the Fayetteville intersection of College Avenue and Spring Street.

Tom Terminella, owner of Terminella & Associates Inc. of Fayetteville, is the developer of the new building and will occupy the top floor of the two-story building and lease out the ground floor. Terminella said lease rates have not been determined yet.

Crafton, Tull & Associates Inc. of Rogers is the architect and engineer on the building that will feature a brick and cast-stone exterior with blue glass windows. Terminella declined to disclose the bank that’s financing the project.

EWI Wins Willow Offices

EWI Constructors Inc. has started construction on a 12,300-SF office building valued at $1.5 million off Greathouse Springs Road in Johnson. The building will eventually house Creekside Center for Women and Laser Aesthetics, formerly known as Northwest Arkansas OBGYN Group. Physicians Darrin Cunningham, Kent Mason, Michael McMullin, Michael Clouatre and Greg Reiter will — occupy the office space.

WW Healthcare LLC — of which Joe Whiteside and Jim Woker, both of EWI, are principals — is the developer of the 1.2-acre site. Miller Boskus Lack Architects PA of Springdale is the architect. CEI Engineering Associates Inc. of Bentonville is the engineer.

Simmons Bank of Russellville is financing the construction.