by - April 14, 2016 6:00 pm
An upcoming May 1 deadline to find a site location for a $1.3 billion superproject that China’s largest privately-held timber company hopes to build in south Arkansas is expected to…
by - February 14, 2016 2:48 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) has floated the idea of cutting the state’s largest economic development incentive program as a funding source for highways, but the idea is being resisted by…
by - February 4, 2016 2:23 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Thursday (Feb. 4) that his main proposed changes to the private option remain intact after his recent discussions with federal Department of Health and Human Services…
by - February 2, 2016 3:46 pm
A pair of Jonesboro residents recently became the newest members of a state economic development group with several items on the agenda, one of the members said Monday. Gov. Asa…
by - November 30, 2015 5:57 pm
Editor’s note: Jacob Bundrick is a research associate with the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics (ACRE) at the University of Central Arkansas. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted in…
by - August 20, 2015 12:45 pm
Within the next month, Arkansas economic officials may declare an end of the week announcement as either Good Friday or Black Friday. Arkansas Economic Development Commission Executive Director Mike Preston…
by - July 6, 2015 9:58 am
Mike Preston, the new executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, sits in his fourth-floor office overlooking Capitol Avenue in downtown Little Rock on a sunny late-spring afternoon, sipping…
by - June 11, 2015 2:02 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will depart Saturday for the world’s largest airshow in Paris and a side trip to Germany where he and a delegation of state economic development and business…
by - May 31, 2015 1:32 pm
While the Lockheed Martin superproject was well in the works before he was ever considered for the job as director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, Mike Preston knows that…
by - March 29, 2015 2:04 pm
On Thursday, Gov. Asa Hutchinson officially named Mike Preston as the new executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, the state agency charged with recruiting and retaining jobs. Preston…
by - March 26, 2015 9:27 pm
Only hours removed from hiring the state’s next economic development chief, Gov. Asa Hutchinson outlined his vision for an aggressive platform on Thursday that he said would allow Arkansas to…
by - March 25, 2015 6:17 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will turn to the Sunshine State for his new director of economic development. Talk Business & Politics and The City Wire have learned that Mike Preston, vice…
by - January 23, 2015 12:19 pm
The first big jobs announcement for Gov. Asa Hutchinson took place Friday (Jan. 23) in Clarksville. It is there that HanesBrands is adding 120 jobs as part of a $1.4…
by - November 9, 2014 12:28 pm
Arkansas’ burgeoning biomass industry got a big boost earlier this summer when in the space of 30 days two privately held investor groups announced multi-million dollar projects to produce commercially…
by - September 28, 2014 5:15 pm
Grant Tennille, director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, says it’s time for Arkansas to refocus economic relations with Taiwan, the democratic island nation whose connection and relationship with China…
by - September 17, 2014 2:10 pm
Officials with Beaudet Aviation, a subsidiary of JCB Aero located in France, announced Wednesday (Sept. 17) plans to invest $2.5 million in a Little Rock operation and initially create 75…
by - September 8, 2014 5:22 pm
Mary Beth Brooks, president and CEO of Bank of Fayetteville, has been appointed by Gov. Mike Beebe as a member of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, the 16-member panel that…
by - August 26, 2014 8:09 pm
The state’s economic development community concluded two days of workshops hearing from leaders who called for a workforce overhaul and potential changes to Amendment 82, the state’s superproject amendment. Grant…
by - June 26, 2014 6:05 pm
There’s something in the water. How else do you explain the success that Arkansas entrepreneurs have enjoyed over the past 50 years? There is no precedent for a state with…
by - June 9, 2014 10:05 pm
Two job announcements in two days will bring 325 new jobs and a former U.S. Vice-president to Arkansas. On Tuesday (June 10), Arkansas economic officials will break ground in Osceola…
