by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Larry A. Rose, a full-time veterinarian and part-time commercial real estate developer, is developing 22 acres on Southeast Walton Boulevard in Bentonville. Rose and his wife, Angela J. Rose, got…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Steve Clary’s Clary Development Corp. in Little Rock secured financing Jan. 3 for the Sonic Drive-In that will be part of his Wedington Place commercial development on Arkansas Highway 16…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas is just not a party school — at least not when it comes to tailgating. Veterans of the football circuit say the UA just doesn’t measure…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
South Carolina businessman Major Whisnant hopes to bring his company’s Gameday Park concept to Fayetteville, especially if additional ball games are scheduled on campus. But one version of the company’s…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Three years ago, Gary Hirshberg decided Northwest Arkansas had a fair sampling of elite neighborhoods. What the market needed, he says, was an upscale community for everyone. Hirshberg, the project…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees isn’t the only state board that athletic director Frank Broyles has appeared in front of lately. We hear Broyles went before the Arkansas…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
The former home of Corky’s Ribs & BBQ at 637 E. Joyce Blvd. in Fay-etteville will soon house a Gateway Country store. Gateway Inc., the computer company founded in 1985,…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
In case you’re curious, we unburied some more details on Bentonville-based Arvest Bank Group Inc.’s entry into the Pulaski County market. In round numbers, the deal to buy Little Rock’s…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Developer Gary Combs, owner of Basic Construction Co. in Springdale, may have recorded the steal of the new year. He has lured Jim Hawkins away from Tune Concrete Products Co….
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
We noticed that Superior Federal Bank is opening a finance company in Roland, Okla., which is about seven miles west of Fort Smith but light-years away from Arkansas’ usury law….
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
George’s Inc. is expanding its commercial egg operation on Russell Road in Siloam Springs. The $1.8 million expansion includes two laying houses that will operate a total of 400,000 hens…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Jeffrey Wood of Bentonville has been named editor of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, publisher Darin Gray announced Jan. 21. Wood, who has been an associate editor more than a…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
When I was growing up in Southeast Arkansas, I never thought of the Arkansas Razorbacks as a Fayetteville team or a Little Rock team. It just never occurred to me…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
She had a dog named Alice and an obsession with pigs. It must have been fate. Lynn DeVault had been recruited by billionaire Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton to move to…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
Asda Group Plc., Great Britain’s third-largest supermarket chain (which was purchased for $10.8 billion by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. last June), says it will open 12 new stores this year and…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
Bill and Walter Mathews plan to demolish the 20-year-old McDonald’s restaurant at 201 S. Walton Blvd. and build a new “state-of-the-art McDonald’s” in its place. Bill Mathews says he plans…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
Terry Held started the year 2000 by moving to Northwest Arkansas to be executive chef and general manager for Basil’s Cafe in Rogers and Blackboards Cafe in Bella Vista. Both…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
1998 N. College Ave. Fayetteville This is one of our favorite Chinese restaurants in Northwest Arkansas and definitely our favorite for atmosphere, what with the glassed-in room and lush greenery…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
Sheron Harp and Cammie Harp Scott hadn’t planned on working as a mother-daughter team, but then, everyone’s heard about what happens to best-laid plans. Life often intervenes. And that sometimes…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
Mercy Health System’s selective contracting with Benton County physicians is apparently not anti-competitive or illegal under federal law, the U.S. Justice Department has said. Congressman Asa Hutchinson asked the Justice…
