by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
It’s official. As reported in the Dec. 27 “Whispers” column, Gary Darnell is now news director for KPOM/KFAA, Channels 24/51, which currently has offices in Fort Smith and Rogers. Darnell…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
We’re not sure how many people still get their stock quotes from newspapers. But anyone who checked The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas on Jan. 29 for quotes on stocks…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
We didn’t think it was possible for anything to knock “meth madness” off the newscasts of KHBS/KHOG, Channels 40/29, but something finally did. Bigfoot. The station ran several news segments…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter Robert J. Smith made a potentially dry story readable by referring to “blue-eyed bats and bald eagles” in the first paragraph. The story, which was published Jan….
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Construction at schools in Northwest Arkansas continued to dominate the area’s commercial projects in 1999. The largest commercial firms also tackled more expensive projects than they did in 1998. The…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Despite a record first quarter, Tyson Foods Inc. saw its stock continue to wallow below the $20 mark through the first of February. Even after it was announced Jan. 31…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Bob Shoulders, managing member of Athletic Clubs of America LLC, refinanced his 50,000-SF Fayetteville Athletic Club and seven acres of property at 2920 E. Zion Road in Fayetteville. He got…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
City reserve funds were used to pay for the new 23,400-SF Springdale Fire Station No. 1 at 417 S. Holcomb St. The $3.6 million facility was built on the 1.74-acre…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Sam Mathias, through his Mathias Properties, got $3.4 million in financing in December from Arkansas National Bank and Bank of Arkansas. He’s using $1.9 million to add a KFC restaurant…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Eastman Kodak Co. has already leased space in the new 28,000-SF office building Collins Haynes is adding to his Pinnacle Point development in Rogers. On Dec. 22, First National Bank…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Developer Ben Israel is excited about the corner lot he acquired in December at the intersection of U.S. Highway 412 and Hidden Lake Road in east Springdale. Israel sold his…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Larry A. Rose, a full-time veterinarian and part-time commercial real estate developer, is developing 22 acres on Southeast Walton Boulevard in Bentonville. Rose and his wife, Angela J. Rose, got…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Steve Clary’s Clary Development Corp. in Little Rock secured financing Jan. 3 for the Sonic Drive-In that will be part of his Wedington Place commercial development on Arkansas Highway 16…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas is just not a party school — at least not when it comes to tailgating. Veterans of the football circuit say the UA just doesn’t measure…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Three years ago, Gary Hirshberg decided Northwest Arkansas had a fair sampling of elite neighborhoods. What the market needed, he says, was an upscale community for everyone. Hirshberg, the project…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees isn’t the only state board that athletic director Frank Broyles has appeared in front of lately. We hear Broyles went before the Arkansas…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
The former home of Corky’s Ribs & BBQ at 637 E. Joyce Blvd. in Fay-etteville will soon house a Gateway Country store. Gateway Inc., the computer company founded in 1985,…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
In case you’re curious, we unburied some more details on Bentonville-based Arvest Bank Group Inc.’s entry into the Pulaski County market. In round numbers, the deal to buy Little Rock’s…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
We noticed that Superior Federal Bank is opening a finance company in Roland, Okla., which is about seven miles west of Fort Smith but light-years away from Arkansas’ usury law….
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
George’s Inc. is expanding its commercial egg operation on Russell Road in Siloam Springs. The $1.8 million expansion includes two laying houses that will operate a total of 400,000 hens…
