by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Joe Gies, CEO of the nonprofit Elna M. Smith Foundation Inc., said the Great Passion Play is considered the second-largest tourist attraction in the natural state ranked only behind Magic Mountain in Hot Springs.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Joe Gies, CEO of the foundation that runs The Great Passion Play, is helping implement a new marketing strategy designed to keep crowds coming.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Over the past decade, according to the numbers at least, tourism has taken off in the northwest corner of Arkansas, while traditional tourist meccas like Eureka Springs and Hot Springs have shown little improvement.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
In Northwest Arkansas? insular economy, the travel business is flying high.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Beaver Lake is a 28,000-acre tool the city of Rogers uses to lure leisure travelers.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
There are 2,500 licensed massage therapists in all of Arkansas. In Eureka Springs alone, a town of 2,278 people, there are 45. Plus, the list of day spas and resorts.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Plans for a $12 million water park on 17 acres in Lowell are on hold awaiting financing, but the city of Lowell hopes all will go well and the park gets under way soon.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Wood Works Plus Inc. of Lowell recently bought 18 building permits valued at a combined $1.8 million to build homes in Centerton?s Sienna subdivision and Site work continues on Phase II of the 325-lot Prairie Meadows subdivision in Prairie Grove.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Bentonville Butcher & Deli receives four-star lunch review.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
The first commercial I saw about the Fox Television show filmed in Altus featured Paris Hilton pretending she had never heard of Wal-Mart.rn?What do they sell there, things for your walls?? asked the Hilton hotel heiress.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
National Commerce Financial Corp. of Memphis is a regional bank holding company with about 5,500 employees, according to the firm?s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Wal-Mart?s partnership with a Memphis bank is making some community bankers nervous.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Northwest Arkansas? storied entrepreneurs and developers seem to have thought of everything ? except for a major tourist attraction.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Besides Smokey Bones, O?Charley?s and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Fuddruckers is planning a 7,073-SF restaurant in Fayetteville?s CMN Business Park, and Logan?s Roadhouse is eyeing a spot along the same stretch of Van Asche Drive.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Besides Smokey Bones, O?Charley?s and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Fuddruckers is planning a 7,073-SF restaurant in Fayetteville?s CMN Business Park, and Logan?s Roadhouse is eyeing a spot along the same stretch of Van Asche Drive.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Julie Davis, a spokesperson for Logan?s Roadhouse confirmed that the company is looking for a location in Fayetteville.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Rob Merry-Ship, one of the developers of the UARK Bowl renovation on Fayetteville?s Dickson Street, said the owners are thinking about opening a restaurant and club in the building.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Among the seven states administered by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis, only Mississippi outpaced Arkansas for real personal income growth during the first half of 2003.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
The Downtown Dickson Enhancement Project is looking for businesses to sponsor 75 banners on new light polls along Fayetteville?s Dickson Street.
by - January 19, 2004 12:00 am
Demolition workers tore down the building that housed Nelson Funeral Home at the corner of Joyce Boulevard and Shiloh Drive in November to make way for Fayetteville?s third Walgreen store.
