Urban Air, retailer setting up in Conway
Bargain Hunt and Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Park are scheduled to open their first Arkansas locations at the Conway Towne Center on Skyline Drive.
Both national chains are planning spring openings. Leases were signed through Colliers International Arkansas.
Urban Air, an indoor trampoline park, will occupy 30,411 square feet. It will be located in a space previously occupied by a furniture outlet and is one of 85 Urban Air locations open or under development across the country.
Bargain Hunt, a discount retailer of appliances and home merchandise, will lease 33,237 square feet, also previously leased by the furniture store.
-- Chris Bahn
Farmers-market aid deadline is March 1
Applications for managers of farmers markets seeking state grants to help promote their markets are due March 1, the state Department of Agriculture said.
The department and Farm Credit Services, a major farm lender, also are making reusable paper bags available to markets and their participating farmers. The bags are 10 cents each, with a minimum order of 250. This is the second year for the grant and bag programs.
Farmers markets eligible for the grants are those that are open to farmers and their products at least weekly from May through August, those governed by an organized body with readily accessible bylaws or market guidelines, and those where farmer-vendors make up at least 50 percent of the sellers on any given day.
The application for the grants and the order form for the reusable bags are on the department's website at www.aad.arkansas.gov.
-- Stephen Steed
11 state stocks gain; index moves up 1.52
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, gained 1.52 to 355.07 Friday.
Eleven stocks advanced and seven declined.
Bank of the Ozarks rose 3.4 percent on average volume.
Deltic Timber fell 1.6 percent in light trading.
For the week, 11 stocks declined and seven advanced.
Murphy USA was up 4 percent for the week.
USA Truck dropped 8.2 percent for the week.
Total volume for the index was 24.6 million shares. The average daily volume for the week was 21 million shares.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
Business on 01/21/2017