by - July 7, 2022 9:19 am
After a slower month in May, building activity in the Fort Smith region rebounded in June. Fort Smith, Greenwood and Van Buren had a combined $22.549 million in permit values,…
by - March 7, 2022 5:25 pm
The three largest cities in the Fort Smith metro reported higher than average building permit values in February. Fort Smith, Greenwood and Van Buren had a combined $90.808 million in…
by - March 5, 2020 5:11 pm
Building activity in the Fort Smith region dropped in February after a particularly robust first month of the year. The region issued $20.499 million building permits in February’s 28 days,…
by - January 8, 2020 3:35 pm
Building activity in the Fort Smith region ended 2019 ahead of 2018 thanks to a flurry of building in Fort Smith in the final 30 days of the year. The…
by - May 14, 2019 11:07 am
Fort Smith’s building sector had a nice boost in April with total building activity for the month rising above the entire total for the first quarter of the year. Fort…
by - August 1, 2018 4:24 pm
Regional building activity for Fort Smith, Van Buren, and Greenwood dipped slightly after multiple months of gains and a breakthrough May that pushed the combined Fort Smith metro region to…
by - March 12, 2018 12:20 pm
Fort Smith metro region building activity — permits for Fort Smith, Greenwood, and Van Buren — began 2018 behind its year-to-date performance from last year, though the last 28 days…
by - December 7, 2017 5:57 pm
Building activity in the Fort Smith region bounced back in a major way in November, cutting its year-to-date deficit by more than 5% after a rough September placed it into…
by - November 6, 2017 4:37 pm
Building activity in the Fort Smith region bounced back in October, cutting its year-to-date deficit by just over 2% after a rough September placed it into the red. The region…
by - October 2, 2017 5:13 pm
August giveth, September taketh away. After a big upswing from Van Buren and Greenwood that placed the Fort Smith metro region’s building activity 3% ahead for the year, a poor…
by - June 8, 2017 4:33 pm
Fort Smith, Van Buren, and Greenwood added $88.44 million in permits against 2016’s $69.94 million valuation through May, a gain of 26.45%, but the news wasn’t all good for the…
by - May 3, 2017 12:23 pm
Fort Smith, Van Buren, and Greenwood added $76.955 million in permits against 2016’s $56.506 million valuation through April, a gain of 36.2%. Fort Smith led the way – not to…
by - April 3, 2017 8:02 pm
Fort Smith, Van Buren, and Greenwood, posted building permit value gains through the first three months of 2017 compared to the same period last year. Overall the three cities added…
by - February 6, 2017 5:36 pm
Fort Smith metro building activity started 2017 with significant gains from the same period last year with Fort Smith and Van Buren leading the way. The metro region, which consists…
by - January 4, 2017 2:07 pm
Fort Smith building activity made gains in December, but not enough to close the gap between 2016 and 2015’s year-end performances. A large deficit in October eroded gains from July…
by - December 6, 2016 1:29 pm
Fort Smith building activity momentum gained in November, but not enough to catch it up year-to-date, following a large deficit last month that eroded gains from July through September. In…
by - September 13, 2016 1:50 pm
The Fort Smith region continues to make gains in building activity through the first eight months of 2016 after a bumpy start. For the first eight months of the year,…
by - July 11, 2016 11:10 am
For the first six months of 2016, Fort Smith and Greenwood experienced a dip in overall building permit values while Van Buren saw a slight uptick. Combined permit values for…
by - May 4, 2016 12:36 pm
New home construction in Fort Smith is up more than 30% in the first four months of 2016, but overall building permit values in the city are down more than…
