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Hunt for Ad Space Creates Mobile Billboards

J.B. Hunt and Transport Media put billboard advertising on 18 wheels.

Lewis Excels as Fayetteville Rainmaker

The Fayetteville business community calls him The Rainmaker, but John Lewis says no one individual has overwhelming power in his hometown.

Bentonville To Get More Office Space

SH&S Partnership purchases two building permits to add two more office buildings in Bentonville.

Happy Days in Store for Rogers Business

Shell Spivey gets a $920,000 loan from First State Bank of Lonoke for the final financing of his Happy Days Car Wash and land in Rogers.

Edwardses To Build Large Springdale Home

Joe and Janice Edwards obtain a $900,000 building permit for a new home in southwest Springdale.

Builders Plan Bentonville Skating Rink

Roseana Carter of Meadow Springs School Inc. receives an $829,775 loan from Arkansas National Bank in Rogers to build a skating rink/day care in Bentonville.

Kohl?s Gets Permit for Rogers Store

Kohl?s Corp. buys a building permit valued at $2.9 million for a store to be built in Rogers.

ARC To Add to Centerton Subdivision

Ralph Walker, the president of ARC Construction and Development Inc., gets 12 loans to build more homes at a Centerton subdivision.

McDonald?s Corp. To Build Rogers Restaurant

McDonald?s Corp. of Oak Brook, Ill., buys a building permit valued at $750,000 to build a new restaurant in Rogers.

Electric Company To Build Truck Shelter

Ozarks Electric Cooperative Corp. buys a building permit valued at $500,000 to build a truck shed for part of its fleet in Fayetteville.

L&E Equity Continues Meadowlands Additions

John David Lindsey and Kirk Elsass plan four more lots at Fayetteville?s Meadowlands subdivision.

Lindsey-Moore To Add Homes in Bentonville

John David Lindsey and Jason and Pat Moore of Lindsey-Moore Investments plan five more homes in Bentonville?s Turnbridge Wells subdivision.

Seasonal Merchants Thrive on Holidays

For the Christmas shopping season, the Northwest Arkansas Mall will have two new in-line stores and about a dozen additional kiosks and carts among its seasonal retailers.

Chalfant Plans for Steady Fiber Diet

Space Photonics, the Fayetteville fiber optics research start-up, plans to release new components next year.

Arkansas Absent at IT Conference

A UA professor says no high-tech company from the state has ever participated in the decade-old Knoxville, Tenn., conference.

Nelms Auto Web Site Going Interactive

The simple, clean Web site will go interactive in December, designers say.

Nelms Considers Selling Dealership

Don Nelms might sell his Lincoln Mercury dealership to Superior Automotive Group.

Wal-Mart Weight-Loss Deal Donates to Charity

A vendor to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. offers to help one of the retailer’s vice presidents lose weight.

Barnes & Noble Might Copy CDs by 2001

Barnes & Noble plans to have digital CD ?burning? (copying) capabilities at all of its stores, including the one in Fayetteville, by the end of 2001, sources say.

Ross Marketing Signs with Elvis on the Air

Ross Marketing plans to take Elvis expert Steve Christopher on the road.

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

Fort Smith Metro News Briefs: ACME input now online, UAFS students receive SURF grants