by - August 9, 2018 9:10 pm
Johnny N.T. Nguyen and Chao M. Do received approval from the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) real estate review committee on Thursday (Aug. 9) to resell 14 acres purchased in…
by - August 8, 2018 4:24 pm
Fort Smith businessman Casey Millspaugh, the owner of the Fort Smith Popcorn Company, has considered himself an avid supporter of the city’s bikes and trails system for years. He even…
by - August 8, 2018 5:50 am
Fort Smith Ward 1 Director and real estate developer Keith Lau survived two reviews by the city’s planning commission only to be shot down during Tuesday’s (Aug. 7) board meeting…
by - August 7, 2018 6:02 pm
ERC Holdings will soon break ground on a new residential neighborhood in Chaffee Crossing. Called Lakeside Crossing, it will be 17 acres, situated in a location along Wells Lake Road…
by - August 7, 2018 5:52 pm
Dallas-based Fish City Grill has plans to open a Fort Smith location at 7001 Phoenix Ave. just across from the Holiday Inn Express, according to development plans provided to the…
by - August 6, 2018 6:58 pm
The Tacos 4 Life Fort Smith location will host its grand opening on Tuesday (Aug. 14), a spokesperson for the Conway-based company told Talk Business & Politics. The location at…
by - August 6, 2018 12:46 pm
The Fort Smith region — Sebastian and Crawford counties — experienced an uptick in month-to-month and year-to-date home sales through values and unit sales. Considering March, when the region closed…
by - August 2, 2018 6:01 pm
Fort Smith mayoral candidates Luis Andrade, Wayne Haver, and George McGill met on Thursday (Aug. 2) at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) to discuss their visions for…
by - August 1, 2018 4:24 pm
Regional building activity for Fort Smith, Van Buren, and Greenwood dipped slightly after multiple months of gains and a breakthrough May that pushed the combined Fort Smith metro region to…
by - August 1, 2018 4:14 pm
In a follow-up to the July 18 meeting of the Western Arkansas Intermodal Authority (WAIA, formerly RITA), the governing board voted by email ballot late last week to approve of…
by - July 31, 2018 6:04 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors is considering the possibility of a Section 108 loan that could restrict 42% of annual Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds over the next…
by - July 31, 2018 11:20 am
Fort Smith’s school millage increase, approved by voters on May 22, once again took center stage at a school board meeting on Monday (July 31). The School Board unanimously approved…
by - July 30, 2018 7:24 pm
In April, Fort Smith-based steel fabrication company American Precision Fabricators (APF) agreed to a purchase offer from Alpine 4 of Phoenix under the terms of a private transaction. As a…
by - July 30, 2018 10:37 am
ProPak Corporation and Pinnacle Communications have signed on to help sponsor Fort Smith’s first large-scale LAN party. LAN refers to a local area network in the technology sector. But in…
by - July 26, 2018 5:08 pm
The United States Marshals Museum (USMM) has begun construction on its new $50 million location on the banks of the Arkansas River near downtown Fort Smith. For USMM President and…
by - July 25, 2018 7:09 pm
Fort Smith sales tax revenues continued to improve in June with $3.632 million collected from the city’s 2% tax, 1% of which goes to streets, 0.75% to bond issues, and…
by - July 25, 2018 6:57 pm
Van Buren’s Veterans Memorial Plaza opened Wednesday (July 25) amid sweltering temperatures. Hundreds of residents gathered for over an hour. They spilled out into Freedom Park and lined Main Street….
by - July 24, 2018 8:15 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved on Tuesday (July 24) the bond ordinance for $160 million in water and sewer refunding and construction revenue bonds expected to save the…
by - July 23, 2018 12:53 pm
A new independent (“indie”) bookstore will open Aug. 11 at its location on the corner of North 10th and B Streets in Brunwick Place. Called Bookish: An Indie Shop for…
by - July 22, 2018 5:24 pm
Chaffee Pizza Company, LLC has been named as the first tenant of ERC Holdings’ The Landing commercial development in front of the Walmart distribution center on Zero Street in Fort…
