Stories by Jack Weatherly

  • Catholic Health acquires QualChoice

    Catholic Health Initiatives announced Thursday that stock-sale transactions with the shareholders — four institutions — have been approved and thus the purchas…

    by Jack Weatherly May 2, 2014

  • State approves sale of QualChoice

    The application by Catholic Health Initiatives of Denver to buy QualChoice Health, the second-largest health insurer in Arkansas, was approved by the Arkansas …

    by Jack Weatherly April 30, 2014

  • Landers, athletes work on car pact

    Steve Landers said Wednesday that he is in negotiations with baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez and former National Basketball Association great Karl Malone to …

    by Jack Weatherly April 24, 2014

  • Private school opening on Main

    Urban Garden Montessori School has leased space in a building at 610 Main St. as a temporary home for kindergarten through fourth grade classes starting in Aug…

    by Jack Weatherly April 23, 2014

  • At the corner of the future and yesterday

    I ran into Jacob Chi at the corner of Main Street and Capitol Avenue the other day. He and another man were trying to attach a blue and white sign to the plywo…

    by Jack Weatherly April 20, 2014

  • Airport chief to pitch Hawker site in U.K.

    The Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission on Tuesday approved spending $6,000 to send its executive director, Ron Mathieu, to the Farnborough International …

    by Jack Weatherly April 16, 2014

  • Chis unveil plan for LR hotel

    The Chi Hotel Group LLC announced Monday that the 105-year-old Boyle Building at the corner of Main Street and Capitol Avenue will become a 144-room Aloft hote…

    by Jack Weatherly April 15, 2014

  • Main Street LR hotel plan announced

    The Chi Hotel Group announced Monday its plan to adapt the 105-year-old Boyle Building at the corner of Main Street and Capitol Avenue as a 144-room Aloft hote…

    by Jack Weatherly April 14, 2014

  • FedEx said to plan LR truck terminal

    Plans for a 305,000-squarefoot distribution warehouse and truck terminal have been submitted to the Little Rock Planning Department.

    by Jack Weatherly April 9, 2014

  • Court: Ex-chief owes payroll taxes

    U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. has ruled that Ralph Bradbury, former president of the now-defunct Continental Express Inc., owes the federal governm…

    by Jack Weatherly April 8, 2014

  • St. Vincent buys Spa City hospital

    St. Vincent Health System announced Tuesday its acquisition of Mercy Hot Springs hospital and a physicians clinic, giving St. Vincent a projected annual net re…

    by Jack Weatherly April 2, 2014

  • Landers, 60, sells McLarty interest

    Steve Landers has sold the remainder of his minority interest in RLJ-McLarty-Landers Auto Group’s dealerships in the United States and Mexico, he said Tuesday.

    by Jack Weatherly March 26, 2014

  • Figure released on Boyle Building

    The Boyle Building in downtown Little Rock, which will become a hotel, was sold to the Chi Hotel Group for $4.6 million, according to records at the Pulaski Co…

    by Jack Weatherly March 21, 2014

  • Bennett’s Military finds new digs

    Bennett’s Military Supplies has found a new home — farther south on Main Street in Little Rock from where it has operated for 40 years, owner Sheree Meyer said…

    by Jack Weatherly March 20, 2014

  • UAMS, Baptist Health start alliance

    The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has entered its third partnership with other institutions in recent months to expand services and address its a…

    by Jack Weatherly March 18, 2014

  • Boyle Building to bloom again

    The 12-story, 105-year-old Boyle Building at Capitol Avenue and Main Street in downtown Little Rock will be developed into a hotel, Little Rock Mayor Mark Stod…

    by David Smith , Jack Weatherly March 11, 2014

  • Dassault foresees 40% output rise

    Dassault Falcon Jet Corp. expects to increase its output by 40 percent after a $65 million expansion at its Little Rock completions center is finished by the e…

    by Jack Weatherly March 6, 2014

  • Making a haul off the U.S. Postal Service

    Pat Salmon started driving a bobtail truck from Harrison to Little Rock in 1946, delivering the mail as a contractor for the U.S. Postal Service.

    by Jack Weatherly March 2, 2014

  • Stephens Media pares LR bureau

    Stephens News Bureau will eliminate five of the six jobs at its Little Rock operation, including bureau chief Dennis Byrd.

    by Jack Weatherly March 1, 2014

  • Cranford Johnson plans move to Third and Main

    Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods, the state’s largest marketing, advertising and public relations firm, announced plans Thursday to move its Little Rock office …

    by Jack Weatherly February 28, 2014

  • Cranford Johnson moving to Main Street

    Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods, the state’s largest marketing, advertising and public relations firm, announced on Thursday plans to move its Little Rock offi…

    by Jack Weatherly February 27, 2014

  • 3 compounders register as outsource facilities

    Sixty-four people died and 750 more were sickened in 2012 by an outbreak of fungal meningitis from contaminated steroid injections, and Congress took action to…

    by Jack Weatherly February 23, 2014

  • Main to get another big mixed-use project

    Doug Meyer, managing member of Crystal LLC, says he is on the verge of announcing a major project for the Fulk Building on Main at Third in Little Rock.

    by Jack Weatherly February 16, 2014

  • Outlet mall soon to take shape in LR

    New England Development on Thursday purchased 30 acres for about $5.25 million to build The Outlets at Little Rock in the Gateway Town Center.

    by Jack Weatherly February 7, 2014

  • Lafayette building sells for $3 million

    Lafayette Square, a mixed-use project that was in the first wave of downtown-living redevelopment, has been sold for $3 million.

    by Jack Weatherly February 4, 2014

  • Hopscotching along Main in Little Rock

    Reclamation development has its rewards — resurrecting old structures. And its surprises — finding structural problems.

    by Jack Weatherly February 2, 2014

  • Memphis-based developer Belz files for bankruptcy

    Martin S. “Marty” Belz, a Memphis-based developer whose family owns the Peabody Hotel in that city, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Cour…

    by Jack Weatherly February 1, 2014

  • Rotary’s booklet is 100-year time capsule

    The Little Rock Rotary Club has issued a booklet to commemorate its 100th anniversary. Appropriately, it’s in the shape of a receipt book, a basic tool of busi…

    by Jack Weatherly January 26, 2014

  • HP set to hand over $459,000 for job shortfall

    The Arkansas Economic Development Commission has negotiated an agreement with Hewlett-Packard in which the company will repay $459,000 of the $10 million it re…

    by Jack Weatherly January 22, 2014

  • Tower bats: Kid gloves for uninvited lodgers

    The Albert Pike residential hotel in downtown Little Rock is undergoing a $6 million renovation, and the new owners say things are going nicely.

    by Jack Weatherly January 19, 2014

  • Baldwin & Shell looking beyond state

    Baldwin & Shell Construction Co. has long prided itself on the fact that it does all of its work in Arkansas.

    by Jack Weatherly January 19, 2014

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