by - July 16, 2016 1:03 pm
Leaders of 64.6 Downtown held a party Friday evening to celebrate the soon-to-be opened Garrison Commons, a free-admission park in downtown Fort Smith that will include a food trailer managed…
by - June 30, 2016 5:23 pm
The historic Frisco Railroad Station in downtown Fort Smith could soon receive a facelift, but it’s not yet clear what use it will have once completed. At Thursday’s (June 30)…
by - June 29, 2016 3:16 pm
Their relationship hasn’t always been one of cooperation, but that tension appears to be subsiding between the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) and the Fort Smith Central Business Improvement District…
by - May 10, 2016 5:17 pm
The Fort Smith Central Business Improvement District (CBID) has thrown its support behind the Propel Downtown Forward initiative undertaken by 64/6 Downtown, voting unanimously on Tuesday (May 10) to contribute…
by - April 30, 2016 1:25 pm
William Darby wrote in a school essay he would be “something great” or a “professional bum.” It was the former, and several hundred people gathered Saturday morning in downtown Fort…
by - February 11, 2016 6:38 pm
Steve Clark’s renovation of the historic Friedman-Mincer building is move-in ready for Propak employees. But it wasn’t redesigned just to be a corporate office. Clark hopes it is a building…
by - February 10, 2016 6:35 pm
Fort Smith is on pace to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on parking meters in the downtown area, according to financial reports from the city’s department of finance….
by - October 26, 2015 3:22 pm
Central Business Improvement District (CBID) commissioners continue to wrestle with the need for reduced truck traffic through downtown Fort Smith in order to make the area more pedestrian-friendly and cultivate…
by - April 7, 2015 12:02 pm
Add the Peacemaker Music and Arts Festival to a growing list of events to debut in downtown Fort Smith in 2015. And Peacemaker is bringing to town impressive acts like…
by - February 23, 2015 3:57 pm
An effort by Fort Smith city officials to update mobile food vendor regulations that one city official says are “antiquated” and “too restrictive” is welcomed by such vendors and a…
by - February 17, 2015 4:57 pm
A “Festival of Murals” project for downtown Fort Smith was unveiled at Tuesday’s (Feb. 17) meeting of the Central Business Improvement District Commission (CBID), with event organizers saying it will…
by - November 24, 2014 4:50 pm
A long empty downtown Fort Smith building could be coming back to life if a planned sale of the property by the Central Business Improvement District to a local developer…
by - October 29, 2014 7:44 pm
The building at 318 Garrison that was the home of Varsity Sports Grill for more than 20 years may have not served up a cold brew and a hot meal…
by - October 21, 2014 7:30 pm
A "retreat" of Fort Smith's Central Business Improvement District commissioners Tuesday (Oct. 21) morning explored bringing more events to the district and forming a master land use plan for the…
by - September 2, 2014 4:26 pm
The Fort Smith Central Improvement District approved a variance at a special meeting Tuesday (Sept. 2) that would allow a new Jimmy John's sandwich shop under construction at 822 Garrison…
by - August 25, 2014 3:44 pm
Owners and managers of 5 Star Productions in Fort Smith have been successful with a business model using top talent and leading-edge technology. They are pushing that formula with Red…
by - July 10, 2014 1:31 am
A group of 2014 graduates of Fort Smith's Union Christian Academy presented a dream Wednesday (July 9) that they admit is big, but believe is a possible if the community…
by - June 17, 2014 2:02 pm
A taste of Oklahoma City's Bricktown is coming to downtown Fort Smith with the news Tuesday (June 17) that Varsity Sports Bar and Grill has been sold to the company…
by - June 12, 2014 5:48 pm
The former Town Club building in downtown Fort Smith has been acquired by Smith Auto Group for the purposes of locating corporate operations with up to 20 employees in the…
by - April 7, 2014 8:48 pm
Nearly a year after it was first announced, work has begun on the Garrison Pointe West development, which will convert six Garrison Avenue buildings into a mixed-use commercial and luxury…
