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Arkansas Housing Starts Lead Seven-state Region

For the fourth quarter of 2003, Arkansas was first out of seven regional states and outpaced the U.S. average in percent change in housing permits.

Population Guesses Rescore Need for Roads

Population projections for the Little Rock/North Little Rock metropolitan statistical area and the Northwest Arkansas MSA show that the latter is growing more than twice as fast as its Southern sister.

Moducell Fosters Miniature Electronics

Ron Foster?s company, Moducell Inc. is working on the development of a miniature fuel cell that runs on methanol.

Lee Scott?s Mission (Jeff Hankins Publisher’s Note)

Wal-Mart?s CEO impressed a Little Rock audience, but the world?s largest company still doesn?t understand media relations.

Area Road Woes Could Kill Boom

The area?s surging population and traffic counts indicate about $1.3 billion worth of new highway construction is needed right now. That work isn?t expected to be started, let alone completed, anytime soon.

Beetle Destruction Could Chew $1 Billion Out of Forest Oaks

Since 1999, red oak borer beetles have killed 50 million oak trees along some of the most scenic highways in the Arkansas Ozarks, including state Highway 7 near Pelsor and Highway 23, also known as the ?Pig Trail,? in north Franklin County.

Haynes Limited Only by Imagination

A Rogers-based firm blends environmental concerns with big business.

Subtract This (Editorial)

There?s been a battle ? mostly words ? going on for a decade over stock option expensing.

Benchmark Pumps Up Fire-Protection Design

Last year, the architectural and engineering consulting firm officially established a fire-protection services division, which designs fire-sprinkler systems.

Vision, Mod Digs Bolster Benham

Gary Carnahan and Kevin Kuehn, co-managers of the Lowell branch, say the firm?s ?hands-on design and vision? are what helped grow its local fee revenue 50 percent from $2 million in 2002 to about $3 million last year.

Area Engineers Try To Bend Around Steel

Developers in Northwest Arkansas have felt a pinch in construction costs because of skyrocketing steel prices.

Lindsey Starts Stearns Street (Real Deals)

Lindsey Construction Co. of Springdale buys 24 building permits valued at $13.9 million to build apartment units in the 23-acre Stearns Street Apartments complex in Fayetteville. Also: Mortgage reports for Benton and Washinton counties.

UA Translates A.I. Into Business

The professor and Acxiom Database Chair in Engineering of the Computer Science & Computer Engineering Department, Craig Thompson, is working on turning artificial intelligence (AI) into practical applications.

Cannon Express Closes Its Doors

Dean Cannon, former president and CEO of Cannon Express Inc., said the Springdale-based trucking firm closed its doors for good on April 30.

Mathias/Pinnacle Group To Team Up

Sold! Sam Mathias and The Pinnacle Group were in a bidding war May 5 for about 170 acres of undeveloped land along both sides of Interstate 540.

Buffet Appears at Wal-Mart Banquet

Because of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Bentonville and Rogers have become the Hollywood of the Ozarks, attracting a parade of business world rock stars and entertainment moguls.

Clear Creek Changes Name

Rumor is that Clear Creek Golf Club developer John Tyson has decided to change the name of the golf course, not the subdivision, to The Blessing.

Kiplingers Gives Tyson High Marks

Tyson Foods Inc. is one of seven stocks listed in the June issue of Kiplinger?s Personal Finance magazine as the most undervalued on the market.

Featherfest Changes Tune

Springdale is planning to move its annual FeatherFest celebration to a weekend in late May or early June after two years of April rains washing out the festival.

FNB in Green Forest Goes to ‘S’ Corp.

The First National Bank in Green Forest has received approval from the Federal Reserve Bank and the Internal Revenue Service to convert from a ?C? corporation to an ?S? corporation. The change will be retroactive to Jan. 1.

Jones Center raises $310,000 at ‘Big Night’

Colliers | Arkansas to manage Regions Center; firm closes 2 major deals for $10.7M

Architect Reese Rowland honored with AIA Arkansas E. Fay Jones gold medal

Westerman’s SPEED Act accelerates to the Senate