by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
Sam Walton’s first store in Bentonville, which now is a museum and visitors’ center, and an adjacent office building on the Bentonville square were mortgaged May 14 for $410,000. G…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
Retail Trends, Developments National Home Centers Inc. of Springdale has agreed to sell its 200,000-SF Rogers store to Lowe’s Cos. Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The move effectively gets National…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
St. Mary’s Hospital in Rogers is the first in Arkansas and one of the first in the nation to develop a program for fighting a new strain of bacteria that…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
The first Emergency Manager’s Weather Information Network in the state of Arkansas was recently installed in Fayetteville. The system was purchased by the Amateur Radio Club of the University of…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
Medical history is being helped along by some cardiologists and their patients at Washington Regional Medical Center. Drs. James Cooper, David Churchill, Ted Fish and Harrison Butler are among the…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is apparently hiring staffers for a zoned edition of the newspaper for Northwest Arkansas. Although officials at the paper didn’t return our telephone calls, the D-G has…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
A lengthy appeal over ownership of the Northwest Arkansas Times of Fayetteville kept the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from aggressively pursuing its goals in Northwest Arkansas, D-G Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr….
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
There’s a new multi-screen theater coming to Fayetteville. Details are sketchy but we were able to get a few. “It’s unbelievable,” says Kirk Elsass, the broker with Lindsey & Associates…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
The fancy new multiplex theater isn’t the only development planned for that piece of property. Two acres of it will be used to bring another bank to the area. First…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
Speaking of banks, there’s another one headed for Fayetteville. Simmons First Bank of Northwest Arkansas is building a 3,100-SF facility valued at $1.6 million along Joyce Boulevard, near the new…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
Former Razorback football head coach Danny Ford sold his home in Northwest Arkansas on May 1 and moved back to his ranch in South Carolina. Ford sold the home at…
by - June 1, 1998 12:00 am
Another new restaurant is coming to Northwest Arkansas. Two Little Rock businessmen are remodeling the former Pizza Hut building at 1900 W. Walnut St. in Rogers to accommodate a Kettle…
by - May 24, 1998 12:00 am
The number of freestanding radiation oncology centers more than doubled in the United States between 1986 and 1994, according to the American College of Radiology in Philadelphia. ASTRO, as the…
by - May 24, 1998 12:00 am
The amount of commercial construction in the region varies widely from year to year but it typically represents a large percentage of the total construction activity. Figures compiled by the…
by - May 24, 1998 12:00 am
Nabholz Construction Corp. tops the list of commercial contractors in the region with $48 million in revenue in 1997. Among the projects Nabholz completed last year were StaffMark’s new corporate…
by - May 24, 1998 12:00 am
For the first time since the early 1980s, Daniel Maestri is redesigning the menu at Mary Maestri’s, one of Northwest Arkansas’ favorite restaurants for three-quarters of a century. The Italian…
by - May 24, 1998 12:00 am
Ozark Harvest, an organization that takes excess food from institutions and restaurants and delivers it to the needy, is looking for food donors in Washington and Benton counties. “We’ve got…
by - May 24, 1998 12:00 am
Harps Food Stores finished renovation of its 34-year-old store in Springdale’s Plaza Shopping Center on April 15 and began renovations of its store in Fayetteville’s Fiesta Square shopping center the…
by - May 24, 1998 12:00 am
Suzi Stephens, chef at Nibbles Gourmet Catering of Fayetteville, and Brian Crowne, a musician and former manager of George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, have combined talents to form Event Contractors…
by - May 24, 1998 12:00 am
I was somewhat eager to participate in a U.S. Senate debate sponsored by the Young Democrats of Arkansas recently in Hot Springs. My cynical fear of hearing a bunch of…
