by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Walton Sells Lakefront Property
Vestamerica Inc., a Colorado corporation, received a $500,000 mortgage from McIlroy Bank & Trust of Fayetteville on June 2 to finance the purchase of 12.58 acres of land along Beaver…
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by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Springdale Subdivision Financed
A $686,000 loan from McIlroy Bank & Trust of Fayetteville was used to purchase 45 lots in the Central Village subdivision across from Central Junior High School in Springdale. The…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Overland Square Lot Sold
Aaron and Rebecca Burkes purchased a lot in the Overland Square commercial subdivision in Lowell on June 2. The couple received a $337,500 mortgage from Peoples Bank & Trust Co….
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Little Rock Company Buys Land
Alkar Realty of Little Rock bought two lots totaling 2.1 acres in the Carlon Center in Fayetteville on June 16. Alkar received a $675,000 mortgage June 16 from Eagle Bank…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Valley View Townhouses Refinanced
Walter R. Niblock and his wife, Marjorie, of Fayetteville received a $600,000 mortgage from the Bank of Fayetteville on May 23. The loan is secured with the Valley View Townhouses…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Tuesday?s
**** 215 N. East Ave. Fayetteville Drive Time: 5-minute walk from the downtown square Turnaround Time: 10 minutes for appetizers and 10 minutes for dessert Tuesday’s reputation as a restaurant…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Truckers List Worst Speed Traps
Truckers know speed traps better than anybody and they have ranked Bella Vista as the worst one in Northwest Arkansas. Using a web site at www.speedtrap.com, truckers report common speedtraps…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Committee Recommends Saving Amtrak
Amtrak will be bankrupt within a year, says a report released two weeks ago by a federal committee. The federally-subsidized passenger train service has been losing $700 million a year…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Airlines Compete for Business Traveler
Frequent business fliers represent only 9 percent of all passengers but 45 percent of airline revenue, and several major airlines have launched new advertising campaigns intended to increase their share…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Wheelin? and Dealin?
He doesn’t want to discuss it yet, but Jim Ray is buying another automobile dealership – this time in Fort Smith. All he’ll tell us is that Breeden Nissan at…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
No Bailout For A-1
Remember that cover story in our last issue about the folks from Georgia who were going to bail out A-1 Mortgage Co., the troubled Rogers lender? Well, forget all that….
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Columbia Closer to Plans
David Vandewater, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.’s president and chief operating officer, reiterated last week in Little Rock what other Columbia officials have said in past weeks: There likely will be something…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Limited Opportunities for Columbia
Vandewater, Corley and Michael Arvin, executive vice president for the region, say that buying opportunities for Columbia are limited in Northwest Arkansas. Washington Regional Medical System has said “thanks, but…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Flying the Coop
Cooper Communities Inc. continues to streamline its corporate staff, but, for some people at least, that’s creating opportunities. Among the next destined to leave the Bella Vista-based developer are Charlie…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Radio Deal Completed
GulfStar Communications Inc. was swallowed up last week by Capstar Broadcasting Partners Inc. in a deal that created a $1 billion company and made Capstar the nation’s biggest radio broadcasting…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
OKC Bombing Memorial
You may have heard about the memorial planned for the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The winning design, featuring 168 empty chairs, was selected last week from more than…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Baseball Dreams
Those university people get to do the darndest things. For David Pincus, a University of Arkansas business professor, spring means a trip to Cooperstown, N.Y., for an annual seminar on…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Buds of Buddy
Lewis “Buddy” Nordan, a former Fayetteville resident and creative writing professor at the University of Arkansas, now has his own fan club with about 600 members, including Eudora Welty of…
by - July 14, 1997 12:00 am
Outside Again
Sportsmen may recall the writings of Bryan Hendricks, who traded his job covering outdoors for daily newspapers a couple of years ago for an indoor job in Atlanta with Game…
by - June 30, 1997 12:00 am
A-1 Mortgage Company Gets New Management
A contract management company is taking over the operations of A-1 Mortgage Co. of Rogers. Managers from First Colonial Bank Services Inc. of Atlanta and A-1 signed a memorandum of…