Rogers Church Adds to Facility

Rogers Church Adds to Facility

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Rogers recently purchased a building permit valued at $1.19 million to add to its facilities.

Located at 1101 W. Hudson Road, Holy Trinity has 453 members.

Crossland Construction Co. of Rogers is the general contractor on the project, which will be 17,265 SF.

The Rev. Gordon Besel said the church is adding classrooms, making a larger entryway and fellowship hall, and adding more offices. The addition is expected to be completed by mid-summer.

Wachter Corp. Expands into Lowell Complex

Wachter Corp. of Lenexa, Kan. — an international commercial computer networking, cabling and commercial electrical contractor — is nearing completion of its 26,000-SF facility at 1419 W. Monroe St. (Arkansas Highway 264) in Lowell.

The $1.8 million facility is being built by Brad Botteron, president and owner of Wachter, and financed through United Missouri Bank. Lenexa is a suburb of Kansas City.

SSI Inc. of Tontitown is the general contractor, and Crafton Tull & Associates Inc. of Rogers did the design.

Sam Taylor, Wachter’s regional manager, said the company was set to move to the new building on Jan. 10. The project began in June and is slated for final completion, including landscape work, by March.

Wachter is moving from a 5,000-SF facility on Puppy Creek Road in Rogers that Teny Gibbs, a property manager with Mountain Development Inc., plans to remodel and lease.

The new, two-story Wachter complex includes 12,000 SF of office space and a 14,000-SF warehouse. Wachter employs more than 20 local office staff and as many as 200 local workers in the field depending on the workload.

Among its area clients are Wal-Mart Stores Inc., J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., Tyson Foods Inc., Kawneer Inc. and Beverly Enterprises Inc.

Chapel on the Creeks Now Open in Rogers

C.R. Lehman Properties Ltd. recently dedicated Chapel on the Creeks at an upscale Rogers business park.

Located at 5202 Village Parkway inside Village on the Creeks — a C.R. Lehman Construction Co. Inc. development — Chapel on the Creeks has 2,800 SF and a seating capacity of 160 in its sanctuary.

The original building permit, purchased in August, was valued at $700,000.

Harrison French of Bentonville was the architect on the project.

Emily Adams is director of Chapel on the Creeks. C.R. Lehman Properties LP will manage Chapel on the Creeks, which will have nondenominational worship services each Sunday conducted by worship leader Ben J. Rowell from 9:30-10:30 a.m. It will be open to the public daily from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Chapel on the Creeks was dedicated on New Year’s Eve. It will specialize in wedding ceremonies and will also be available for memorial services and other special events.

Located on the 64-acre Village on the Creeks development, the chapel has large mahogany doors and a domed entry with crosses carved into each side of the inside of the doors and an Ictus carved on the outside of the doors.

The mission-style chapel is built of stone and features two rock towers on each side. There are flagstone floors and countertops, onyx windows and open wood beams and posts crafted by the Amish company Schwartz. It is equipped with a state-of-the-art Carillon bell and sound system, three separate nine-candle candelabras, a raised altar and a unity candle candelabra.

There are 10 stained-glass windows built by Stanton Glass of Waco, Texas, and each window tells a story from the Bible.

The chapel is surrounded by a garden and outdoor island for outdoor receptions overlooking a 12-acre lake.

Parsleys Building More for Summer

Danny and Terri Parsley of DP Development in Lowell recently purchased four building permits valued at a combined $427,856 to build more homes at a northeast Lowell subdivision.

The latest homes at Summer Meadows are in the addition’s phase II. The latest homes will be at 307 Eclipse St., 704 Equinox Ave., 708 Hankins Ave., and 309 N. Oak St. Phase II will have 33 lots in all. Phase I had 37 lots.

DP Development is also the general contractor. Houses at Summer Meadows are about 1,600 SF each.

Crossland Gets Started With Fixed-Base Operation

Crossland Construction Co. of Rogers on Dec. 17 purchased a building permit valued at $634,000 to build a new hangar for the fixed-base operator at the Fayetteville Municipal Airport.

Crossland had entered the lowest bid on the project to the Fayetteville City Council last summer. Fayetteville received state grants to help with the cost of the project.

The fixed-base operator hangar is located at 4568 S. School St., just south of the airport terminal.

The 18,750-SF hangar will be three-stories tall — 40 feet high in the center. It will serve as a fuel station for the planes at the airport. Planes also will be serviced in the hangar. Pilots can leave their planes in the hangar during stopovers in difficult weather conditions. Also, there will be space available for lease for planes.

Pepsi Gets New Digs at Village on the Creeks

Lehman Construction Co. Inc. recently purchased a building permit valued at $570,000 to finish out commercial space in west Rogers.

The Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. has moved into a 15,000-SF office at 5211 Village Parkway at Village on the Creeks. The building has a total of 54,000 SF.

Pepsi is headquartered in Somers, N.Y., and has bottling operations in the United States, Canada, Spain, Greece and Russia. It also manufactures, sells and distributes beverages including Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi One, Pepsi Twist, Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew Code Red, Amp, Lipton Brisk, Lipton’s Iced Tea, Slice, Mug, Aquafina, Starbucks Frappuccino, Fruitworks, Sierra Mist, Dole and Sobe in the United States, and 7Up, Pepsi Max, Mirinda and Kas, outside the United States.

For the third quarter ended Sept. 7, the company’s revenues rose 8 percent to $6.44 billion. Net income rose 27 percent to $371 million.