Offices in plans for Rogers parcel
Venture Park LLC recently purchased about 17 acres in Rogers that will be developed into Class B office space, according to a Thursday news release.
The property at 5911 W. Myers Ranch Blvd. was formerly known as Myers Ranch and will be renamed Venture Park. The property sold for $2.9 million in late May, according to county records.
Plans are to develop flexible Class B office space ranging from 20,000 to 60,000 square feet, according to the release. Todd Fleeman is president of Venture Park LLC of Bentonville, according to state records.
"We are seeing an increased desire for higher ceilings, open concept workspaces and more amenities," said David Erstine, vice president at commercial real estate and service firm CBRE, who represented the buyer in the sale.
-- John Magsam
Job fair promotes hiring of disabled
A job fair to promote the hiring of workers with disabilities will be held Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Capitol Rotunda in Little Rock.
There are no booth fees for employers who wish to attend the event. A light lunch will be served for those manning booths.
The cost of the fair is being covered by the Arkansas Support Network through a grant from the Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities, said Kasi Miller of the nonprofit Arkansas Support Network.
The initiative aims to inform employers in Arkansas about the benefits of hiring workers with disabilities.
Other fairs will be held in Jonesboro on July 25; in Fort Smith on Aug. 9; in Russellville on Aug. 15; and in Camden on Aug. 21.
More information in available from Miller at kmiller@supports.org.
-- David Smith
State index falls 0.93; Uniti gains
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, dropped 0.93 to 443.42 Thursday.
"Stocks advanced early in the day on expectations for reduced European auto tariffs and held those gains in afternoon trading ahead of [today's] monthly jobs data report as the information technology and consumer staples sectors outperformed," said Leon Lants, managing director at Stephens Inc. in Little Rock.
Shares of Uniti Group rose 79 cents to $21.10.
Windstream Holding shares fell 38 cents to $4.86.
Total volume for the index was 17 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 07/06/2018