by - May 24, 2004 12:00 am
Cafe Santa Fe Closes in Fayetteville
The Cafe Santa Fe restaurant in downtown Fayetteville closed on May 10.
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by - May 24, 2004 12:00 am
Tyson Plans Dividend, Cutbacks for Pork
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale has announced that it will pay a quarterly dividend of 4 cents per share on Class A common stock and 3.6 cents per share on Class B common stock.
by - May 24, 2004 12:00 am
First Pharmacy Since FDR Lands in Lowell
Triphama Inc., doing business as Lowell Pharmacy, is the only pharmacy in one of America?s fastest growing cities.
by - May 24, 2004 12:00 am
Nock, Alexander Plan 12-story, $20M Hotel
John Nock and Richard Alexander plan to tear down 75 percent of the seven-story Mountain Inn of Fayetteville, 60,000-SF structure to make room for a new 12-story hotel.
by - May 24, 2004 12:00 am
Madison Leaves Wal-Mart For Wright, Lindsey & Jennings
Eva Madison, assistant general counsel for employment litigation at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is leaving the world?s largest company.
by - May 24, 2004 12:00 am
Arkansas Housing Starts Lead Seven-state Region
For the fourth quarter of 2003, Arkansas was first out of seven regional states and outpaced the U.S. average in percent change in housing permits.
by - May 24, 2004 12:00 am
Population Guesses Rescore Need for Roads
Population projections for the Little Rock/North Little Rock metropolitan statistical area and the Northwest Arkansas MSA show that the latter is growing more than twice as fast as its Southern sister.
by - May 24, 2004 12:00 am
Moducell Fosters Miniature Electronics
Ron Foster?s company, Moducell Inc. is working on the development of a miniature fuel cell that runs on methanol.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Lee Scott?s Mission (Jeff Hankins Publisher’s Note)
Wal-Mart?s CEO impressed a Little Rock audience, but the world?s largest company still doesn?t understand media relations.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Area Road Woes Could Kill Boom
The area?s surging population and traffic counts indicate about $1.3 billion worth of new highway construction is needed right now. That work isn?t expected to be started, let alone completed, anytime soon.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Beetle Destruction Could Chew $1 Billion Out of Forest Oaks
Since 1999, red oak borer beetles have killed 50 million oak trees along some of the most scenic highways in the Arkansas Ozarks, including state Highway 7 near Pelsor and Highway 23, also known as the ?Pig Trail,? in north Franklin County.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Haynes Limited Only by Imagination
A Rogers-based firm blends environmental concerns with big business.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Subtract This (Editorial)
There?s been a battle ? mostly words ? going on for a decade over stock option expensing.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Benchmark Pumps Up Fire-Protection Design
Last year, the architectural and engineering consulting firm officially established a fire-protection services division, which designs fire-sprinkler systems.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Vision, Mod Digs Bolster Benham
Gary Carnahan and Kevin Kuehn, co-managers of the Lowell branch, say the firm?s ?hands-on design and vision? are what helped grow its local fee revenue 50 percent from $2 million in 2002 to about $3 million last year.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Area Engineers Try To Bend Around Steel
Developers in Northwest Arkansas have felt a pinch in construction costs because of skyrocketing steel prices.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Lindsey Starts Stearns Street (Real Deals)
Lindsey Construction Co. of Springdale buys 24 building permits valued at $13.9 million to build apartment units in the 23-acre Stearns Street Apartments complex in Fayetteville. Also: Mortgage reports for Benton and Washinton counties.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
UA Translates A.I. Into Business
The professor and Acxiom Database Chair in Engineering of the Computer Science & Computer Engineering Department, Craig Thompson, is working on turning artificial intelligence (AI) into practical applications.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Cannon Express Closes Its Doors
Dean Cannon, former president and CEO of Cannon Express Inc., said the Springdale-based trucking firm closed its doors for good on April 30.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Mathias/Pinnacle Group To Team Up
Sold! Sam Mathias and The Pinnacle Group were in a bidding war May 5 for about 170 acres of undeveloped land along both sides of Interstate 540.