by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Restaurant Chains Take Top 10
Olive Garden remained Northwest Arkansas? No. 1 restaurant with $4.1 million in sales for 2005. It was followed by Red Lobster with $3.5 million and Golden Corral with $3.4 million.
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by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
RMG Launches MarketPlace Catering
Restaurant Management Group of Springdale started a new catering division this past fall. The company said MarketPlace Catering will be able to cater events for 50 to more than 500 people.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Starbucks Will Brew in Fayetteville
Starbucks Coffee Co. of Seattle plans to open a 1,700-SF coffee shop this summer in Fayetteville?s Nelson?s Crossing.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Plan for Business Access During Road Construction
Planners must allow for access to major arterials and businesses during road construction.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Montana Tractor Hosts Dealer Conference
Montana Tractors of Springdale hosted more than 400 people at its dealer show held Jan. 5 through Jan. 7 at the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
MSA?s Residential Market 11 Percent Overvalued
The Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metropolitan statistical area tied with seven other MSAs as the nation?s 144th most overvalued residential housing market, according to a CNN Money report on Jan. 3.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
New Re/Max Office Opens in Springdale
Four agents and one principal broker have left Fayetteville?s Re/Max Associates to form a new firm, Re/Max Partners Real Estate Inc. in Springdale.rnThe franchise officially opened Jan. 4.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Friday Firm to Open Second Northwest Office
Little Rock-based law firm Friday Eldredge & Clark has operated a Fayetteville office since 2000. In 2006, the firm will open another office in Rogers to better accommodate its Benton County clientele.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Law Firm Employment Jumps by 25 Percent
There were 21 firms employing a total of 164 lawyers on the Business Journal?s annual list of largest law firms. A total of 25 percent more lawyers were employed by those firms compared to the previous year.)
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
2006 Standard Mileage Rate Set at 44.5 Cents
The Internal Revenue Service has announced that the standard mileage rate for 2006 will be 44.5 cents a mile. The rate became effective Jan. 1.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Two Bassett Firm Lawyers Die Jan. 10
The Bassett Law Firm in Fayetteville lost two of its lawyers on Jan. 10.rnFounder and managing partner, Woodson W. ?Bill? Bassett, 79, died of prostate cancer during the day, and David Wall, 38, a partner, was found dead in his home at about 9 p.m.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Flintco Finds Legacy Units (Real Deals)
Flintco Inc. of Tontitown recently bought a building permit valued at $10.1 million to build a 114,750 SF building on Watson Street in Fayetteville.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Estate Planning Council Provides Continuing Ed
Lawyer Jack Butt, a partner with Davis Wright Clark Butt & Carithers in Fayetteville, had envisioned an area estate planning council for years, but things never really gelled until last summer.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Democrat-Gazette to Launch Hispanic Paper
With Northwest Arkansas? Hispanic population hitting 50,000, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette will launch a Spanish-language newspaper there this spring.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
KFSM Leads DMA in November Nielsens
KFSM, Channel 5, led the 11-county dominant market area during all three weekday evening newscasts in the November household ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Nielsen Becomes Herald-Leader Editor
Lucas Roebuck left the Siloam Springs Herald-Leader in December, and Hannah Nielsen took over as managing editor of the newspaper, which is owned by Wehco Media Group of Little Rock.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Live Light Media Produces Documentary
Barry Cobbs, president of Live Light Media Inc. of Rogers, said the company is in the process of editing almost 100 hours of raw footage from an ABC ?Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? project in Purdy, Mo., last summer.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Paint Can Logo Resembles Bank?s
Valspar Corp.?s Signature Colors paint uses a similar ?S? logo to that of Signature Bank of Arkansas, which is based in Fayetteville.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
New Family Entertainment Facility Coming to Rogers
It?z, a dining/entertainment venue for kids, plans to open a restaurant in the Rogers/Bentonville area.
by - January 16, 2006 12:00 am
Jones TV May Produce Holocaust Documentary
Jones Television, a nonprofit station in Springdale supported by the Harvey and Bernice Jones Foundation, is in the works to obtain national funding to produce a documentary on Betty Schimmel of Scottsdale, Ariz., a Holocaust survivor.