Two Boomerang car washes attracted seven-digit transactions. A 4,200-SF retail project in south Little Rock rang up a $750,000 sale. And a 10-unit piece of the Springvale Apartments project in North Little Rock changed hands.
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Boomerang Projects Combine for $3.8M (Real Deals)
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Children's Hospital Names Tamara Perry Director of Telemedicine (Movers & Shakers)
Dr. Tamara Perry has been promoted to medical director of telemedicine at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock. Perry, who specializes in allergies and asthma, has been with the hospital since 2004. Shawn Harwell was also promoted by ACH to administrative director of telemedicine after five years of managing the hospital's media services.
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National Park Medical Center on List For High Markups
An official with National Park Medical Center in Hot Springs last week blasted a report that said the hospital had one of the highest price markups in the country.
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El Dorado Riding High on Murphy ‘Promise'
Today, more than 1,500 students have benefited from the El Dorado Promise, attending schools across the country, with another 262 students eligible this year. The Promise is also receiving credit for being a catalyst for driving growth in the city and putting the brakes on decreased enrollment in the school district.
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New Heifer Position An Effort to Respond to Donors, Provide Accountability
A year after Heifer International CEO Pierre Ferrari told Arkansas Business about the nonprofit's increased emphasis on measuring its impact, Heifer has created and filled a position to do exactly that.
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What Would Marco Do? (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
The people most likely to excuse Marco Rubio's financial ignorance are the same people who expect perfect financial decisions from people who couldn't well afford professional financial advice.
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Corporate Citizenship (Editorial)
The cost of a customer rewards campaign by a Canadian bank giving away flowers and baseball tickets had to have been dwarfed by the enormous goodwill it generated. So how much greater then is the goodwill generated by something like Murphy Oil Corp.'s El Dorado Promise?
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Arkansas Securities Commissioner Edmond Waters on Preventing Bad Brokers from Doing Business
Edmond Waters was appointed in February by Gov. Asa Hutchinson to succeed Heath Abshure as commissioner of the Arkansas Securities Department.
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FABT Turns Eye on Angelica Rogers In Search of John Rogers Assets
Angelica Rogers, the former wife of alleged fraudster John Rogers, is now on the firing line of collection efforts by First Arkansas Bank & Trust
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15 on Highest-Paid Nonprofit Employees List Earn $1M or More
Research for this third annual list of the highest-paid nonprofit employees turned up 15 with total compensation in the seven figures, up from seven on last year's list.
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Update: Judge Rejects Red Alert Media Matrix's $18M Offer For John Rogers Archive
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza rejects a proposed $18 million offer to buy assets from embattled photo archivist and sports memorabilia dealer, John Rogers. The cash offer from Red Alert Media Matrix Inc. included a billion shares of unregistered illiquid stock in the asset-less concern.
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Hutchinson Financial Sold to United Capital of California
United Capital Financial Advisers LLC of Newport Beach, California, announced on Monday that it had entered the Arkansas market by acquiring Hutchinson Financial Inc., the Little Rock financial advisory founded by Eric Hutchinson in 1988.
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Home BancShares to Buy Florida Business BancGroup of Tampa
Home BancShares Inc. of Conway is making another Florida bank buy, scooping up Florida Business BancGroup Inc. of Tampa. The $101.6 million transaction will push the company's asset total to $8.5 billion and its Tampa area branch network to 12.
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Report: Benton County Tops in US in Wage Growth
The bureau measured the nation's 339 largest "jobs" counties, and Benton County's 9.9 percent wage growth from December 2013 to December 2014 was the highest in the U.S.
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UA Names Colleen Briney to Business Affairs Post
Colleen Briney has been named the new associate vice chancellor for business affairs at the University of Arkansas, the university announced Thursday.
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Phil Baldwin Tells Independence County to 'Dream Big'
Through citizen involvement and a potluck of ideas, Independence County is aiming to leverage its strengths to improve its prospects in five key areas, including economic development.
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Simmons Unveils Ad Featuring Justin Moore
A new advertising campaign featuring Justin Moore, the country music artist originally from Poyen, was unveiled Thursday night at Simmons First National Corp.'s annual shareholders meeting.
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Arkansas Jobless Rate Steady at 5.7 Percent
The state's unemployment rate was steady at 5.7 percent in May, according to data released Friday by the Arkansas Department for Workforce Services. The state's civilian labor force rose by 1,500 from April to May, a result of 900 more employed and 600 fewer unemployed Arkansans.
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NLR Warehouse Draws $1.4 Million Transaction (Real Deals)
A 22,500-SF warehouse in North Little Rock tipped the scales at $1.46 million. A 13.7-acre residential parcel in west Little Rock weighed in at $1.25 million. And a 1,866-SF fast-food eatery in Little Rock is under new ownership after a $1 million transaction.
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McClelland Consulting Engineers Adds Three to Fayetteville Office (Movers & Shakers)
Adam Lesso, William Fellows and Nick Batker have been hired by McClelland Consulting Engineers Inc. and will work from its Fayetteville office.
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