by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
Walker to Build New Noodles
Kirby Walker plans to build a 7,500-SF restaurant on a 7.5-acre lot in Fayetteville?s CMN Business Park to serve as a new Noodles Italian Kitchen restaurant.
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by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
Hog Haus Owners To Lease Brew Pub Building
Common Grounds owners Julie Sill said she and Kari Larson will lease the two-story, 11,000-SF building that previously housed Ozark Brewing Co. on Fayetteville?s Dickson Street.
by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
Benton County DU Wins National Award
Benton County Chapter of Duck?s Unlimited wins Wings of Innovation Award for fund-raising.
by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
Metropolitan Moves Into Northwest Market
Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock has announced plans to open a mortgage origination office in Fayetteville by late September.
by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
Pinnacle Bank Opens, Names First Board
Pinnacle Bank President Joe Mills says its temporary headquarters in Rogers opened on Aug. 23 to allow the bank?s 145 private investors to come in and open accounts. It opened for the public Aug. 30.
by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
Moore Stephens Frost Joins SOX Alliance
Little Rock public accounting firm Moore Stephens Frost PLC has joined a 14-firm alliance created as an outsource resource for public companies to use while complying with the Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).
by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
AAM University Readies First Rogers Graduates
Arvest Asset Management, the financial services arm of Arvest Bank Group Inc., launched its first AAM University seminar series this year in Rogers and averaged about 60 participants per event.
by - August 16, 2004 11:52 am
Road Systems to Add 120 Jobs in Searcy
Road Systems Inc. of Searcy, which makes freight trailers and other transportation equipment, says three new contracts will enable it to hire 120 new workers.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Reality Check Starts Rebounds (John Harrison Newman Commentary)
John Harrison Newman writes about the benefits of facing one’s fears head on in business and in life.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
ACCG Fosters Firms Via Funding Diversity
Fayetteville branch of Arkansas Capital Corp. Group readies for new digs, gets entrepreneurial advocate in Tim McFarland.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Fayetteville Builds While Rogers Rocks
As plans are made for two new hotels in Fayetteville and developers lobby for a tax-increment financing district to rebuild the century-old Mountain Inn, one hotel owner says the city may already be overbuilt. Also: the largest hotels list.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Hotels Starved for Help: Boom Creates Shortage of Hospitality Workers
Robert Kisabeth’s biggest problem on an average Tuesday doesn’t have anything to do with filling the 248-room Embassy Suites hotel he manages in Rogers. It’s whether he’ll have enough servers to work a banquet that evening.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Study Ties Hell, Economics (Editorial)
Occasionally, a curious article turns up in a unlikely place. In the July issue of The Regional Economist an looked at how religious factors can help explain economic growth.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Hotel Room Plans Continue to Loom
More than 1,296 rooms will be added to the Benton and Washington county hotel market if all nine hotel developments announced in the last year go as planned.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Lindsey Gets Comfy In Corporate Lodging
As if The Lindsey Cos. didn’t already dominate enough local industries, its property management arm has checked into a specialty hotel sector and decided to make an extended stay.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Marketing Ensures Business Every Day
With 54 hotels in Benton and Washington counties competing for more than $63 million in annual market revenue, a good director of sales and a strong marketing plan can shift a hotel’s fortune.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Spring Ridge Spawns Project (Real Deals)
David, Jean, Loyd and Elizabeth Phillips recently sold 72 acres off Arkansas Highway 112 in Benton County to Spring Ridge LLC for $1 million.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Plans Supercenters for California
We hear Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville has a plan to invade big-box bashing California with Supercenters.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Ozark Lending Expands Under Mortgage Mania
Up-and-coming mortgage lender Ozark Lending Inc. is already expanding the Rogers loan origination office it opened in April.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Bank of England?s Mortgage Co. Moves into Northwest
England Lending, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of England, has moved into the Northwest Arkansas market.