by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
B&K Wings LLC plans to begin construction in June on its fourth Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar, which will be located in Springdale, said John Bliss. Bliss and Paul Nelson are partners in the franchise company.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Cecilia and Steve Burrell purchased Coffee Corner in Bentonville from Mark Grant in April and reopened it as Coffee Corner & Gifts Inc. on April 29.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Victoria’s Tortilleria on Thompson Street in Springdale offers food that doesn’t stand out.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith announced on April 25 that Paul Beran has been hired as the university?s new chancellor.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Camron Mcahren opens the first helicopter flight training school in Arkansas, operating out of the Fayetteville Municipal Airport with one instructor and one helicopter.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Fortune magazine releases its annual list of the top 500 companies in the U.S., ranked by 2005 revenue. Five companies on the list are based in Arkansas, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville (No. 2) and Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale (No. 80).
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
The Arkansas Realtors Association reports that home sales decreased over the same period last year in both Benton and Washington counties.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
I.O. Metro LLC opens in Fayetteville. It’s the company’s third import furniture and accessories store.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal ranks the largest architecture and engineering firms by local employees in Washington and Benton counties. PB2 of Rogers ranks No. 1 with 260 employees in 2006, down 8 percent from last year.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
A six-minute Public Broadcasting Service television spot about radio frequency identification technology features Bill Hardgrave, director of the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Local radio and television host Polly Crews died April 9 in a Fort Smith hospital. She was 76.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
DOXA Total Design Strategy of Fayetteville wins a gold award from the Council on Foundations for its work on the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation’s 2004 annual report.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Very few locally produced television commercials stand out for their positive qualities, but one we’ve noticed lately does.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
On April 27, we noticed the second and third pages of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sports section were identical, except that an extra space in the headline of Otis Kirk’s column had been corrected in the second version.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Crossland starts $19 million cold storage facility and Harris McHaney will build a $6.5 million office building in Rogers.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
In May, Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc. will graduate from the University of Arkansas’ Genesis Technology Incubator in Fayetteville.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Vegrandis LLC, a Fayetteville company and a client of Virtual Incubation Corp., receives a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
If you’ve driven past the New Hope Road exit on Interstate 540 in Rogers lately, you probably saw the new cross jutting into the skyline at the construction site of the Church at Pinnacle Hills.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
More on Jeff Collins, executive director of the University of Arkansas’ Center for Business and Economic Research, who apparently agreed to be a board member for The Bank of Fayetteville but then was told he wouldn’t be allowed to serve.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
We hear the debit card division of the blue Bentonville banking behemoth is going gangbusters, with Arvest its 29th most active bank customer by debit card sales dollars processed for 2005.
