by - March 20, 2024 1:52 pm
The beneficiaries of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) – Sebastian County and the cities of Barling, Fort Smith and Greenwood – have turned their thoughts toward the dissolution of…
by - March 6, 2024 11:16 am
The Fort Smith Board of Directors passed resolutions at its regular meeting Tuesday night (March 5) approving a five-year lease of the building used as City Hall and requesting a…
by - March 4, 2024 6:41 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) finally answered 10 questions from the trust’s beneficiaries about the FCRA’s dissolution. The response was made after almost seven months, and a day before…
by - October 19, 2023 7:28 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority Board of Trustees dealt two blows to the City of Fort Smith in the span of 90 minutes at its board meeting Thursday (Oct. 19)….
by - October 10, 2023 5:58 pm
The 2% merit pay received by Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) CEO Daniel Mann is legal because it’s for his work with a “political subdivision” in Arkansas, according to an…
by - October 6, 2023 4:25 pm
With the average monthly merit pay combined with his salary, Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) CEO Daniel Mann is making significantly more per employee managed than other top government leaders…
by - September 21, 2023 8:04 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) will not donate Deer Trails Golf Course to the City of Fort Smith because they fear the golf course will be sold and used…
by - September 11, 2023 8:12 pm
The Arkansas Real Estate Commission is investigating Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) real estate transactions following a complaint filed against FCRA Executive Director Daniel Mann and FCRA. In a letter…
by - August 23, 2023 12:19 pm
Members of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) Board of Trustees asked for better terms before donating Deer Trails Golf Course to the City of Fort Smith. They got what…
by - August 17, 2023 7:03 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) Board of Trustees on Thursday (Aug. 17) rejected a an agreement with the City of Fort Smith that would protect the future of golf…
by - June 15, 2023 6:10 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority Board of Trustees tabled further discussion of Deer Trails Golf Course for another month in order to give all parties another chance to negotiate a…
by - May 16, 2023 8:56 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (May 16) unanimously passed a resolution requesting the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) donate the property that has operated as many years…
by - May 11, 2023 4:03 pm
The question of whether Deer Trails Golf Course in Chaffee Crossing will remain a golf course or be sold to be developed is once again a hot topic and a…
by - September 15, 2022 5:14 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) Board of Directors have approved a plan to transfer a small park near the Sebastian County soccer fields to Sebastian County for use as…
by - July 13, 2022 5:07 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority Board of Trustees on Tuesday (July 12) approved a controversial contract to sell a parking lot on Ellis Street in the Fort Chaffee Historic District…
by - June 16, 2022 9:25 pm
In what started as a largely attended and contentious meeting of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority Board of Trustees, board members accepted offers for purchase of two parking lots, the…
by - May 20, 2021 9:17 pm
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority Board of Trustees has approved the sale of 21 buildings, a gravel parking lot and 0.75 acres in the Chaffee Historic District. The move takes…
by - March 10, 2021 5:16 pm
Despite a national pandemic, the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority ended 2020 in a solid financial situation with a new year off to a good start, according to Daniel Mann, FCRA…
by - August 15, 2019 6:11 pm
Daniel Mann will take up the reigns as the executive director of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority Friday (Aug. 16). Mann was chosen as the new executive director July 19….
by - June 25, 2019 8:40 pm
Wally Bailey, who recently resigned as Fort Smith’s director of planning after 41 years with the city, former Rep. Leslee Milam-Post, D-Ozark, and Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) Marketing Director…
