by - December 21, 2017 8:57 am
The Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce has promoted Debbie Griffin to the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer. She will assume the role Jan. 1. Griffin…
by - December 20, 2017 2:13 pm
Sam’s Club, the warehouse club division owned by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is planning to build a new layout center in Bentonville, just a few steps from its headquarters on Simple…
by - December 19, 2017 12:00 pm
James (Jim) Rankin, the chief research officer and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Arkansas, will return to his alma mater as the 19th president of South Dakota School…
by - December 18, 2017 8:34 am
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the Dec. 11 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - December 17, 2017 5:47 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport will add two gates to the B concourse and establish a generic gate system for them. On Dec. 13, the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority approved…
by - December 14, 2017 10:05 am
A 6,505-square-foot commercial building in Rogers’ Scottsdale Center development recently sold for $2.8 million. The purchase price equals $430.43 per square foot. Crain Investments LP, led by Little Rock businessman…
by - December 14, 2017 7:59 am
Three months after Louisville, Ky.-based Generation Tux purchased for $25 million the online tuxedo rental startup Menguin, headquartered in Fayetteville at the time, co-founder Justin Delaney said the company is…
by - December 13, 2017 4:39 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority approved spending up to $200,000 to hire an executive consultant to review the airport’s organizational structure and recruit a CEO. The board also approved a…
by - December 13, 2017 8:18 am
Realtors in the two-county area combined to sell 8,276 homes through the first 10 months of 2017, essentially flat (up 0.8%) from 8,210 home sales in the January-October period of…
by - December 12, 2017 12:32 pm
Bentonville-based development firm Dynamic Development Inc. agreed at auction Tuesday (Dec. 12) to buy three bank-owned commercial lots in Fayetteville totaling 24.78 acres for $555,000. The purchase price equals $0.51…
by - December 12, 2017 8:19 am
The solar connection between Arkansas and China moved another step forward in November, thanks to a proactive trip from the CEOs of two Fayetteville-based startups in the solar industry. Douglas…
by - December 11, 2017 2:55 pm
Fayetteville engineering firm McGoodwin Williams & Yates Inc. (MWY) is set to be acquired next month by Nebraska-based engineering and design firm Olsson Associates. The negotiations are nearly complete, according…
by - December 11, 2017 9:06 am
The University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design In Fayetteville will launch an affordable housing program, supported by $250,000 from the Walton Family Foundation of Bentonville. Housing…
by - December 10, 2017 4:53 pm
Babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Mercy Hospital in Northwest Arkansas will have an additional lifeline as a result of the 24th annual Mercy Health Foundation’s O’Night…
by - December 8, 2017 9:41 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport is planning to slash most rates for carriers in 2018 as a result of a nearly $550,000 decrease in interest on debt owed. On (Friday) Dec….
by - December 8, 2017 11:04 am
A seven-building, 15.42-acre office complex in Bentonville changed hands Thursday (Dec. 8) for $28.3 million. Sachs Investing Co. of New York purchased the properties just off Walton Boulevard at Rainbow…
by - December 6, 2017 6:04 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission is seeking grant applications for $7.2 million in federal funding for city road projects in Northwest Arkansas. The funding would be for the 2019 federal…
by - December 5, 2017 4:33 pm
A pair of Benton County hotels changed hands recently in separate deals totaling $14.08 million. The 78-room TownePlace Suites by Marriott at 3100 S.E. 14th St. in Bentonville sold for…
by - December 5, 2017 1:20 pm
Three banks have joined forces to create a $30 million loan program to fund renovations and new construction in downtown Springdale, in addition to the establishment of new businesses and…
by - December 5, 2017 10:48 am
Michael Milken, chair of the Milken Institute, will be the featured speaker for the 24th-annual Business Forecast Luncheon, coordinated by the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business…
