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Tyson Foods Inc.'s venture capital arm, Tyson Ventures, has sold its stake in plant-based protein startup Beyond Meat, regulatory filings show.

Tutor Perini Corp. of Los Angeles says its subsidiary, Roy Anderson Corp., has been awarded a $200 million contract to add a new casino complex and hotel at Southland Gaming and Racing Park in West Memphis.

The Little Rock Regional Chamber announces a new partnership with the local SCORE chapter of Little Rock.

The last day of business for Cajun’s Wharf will be June 1, after 44 years. It’s an event frequently, but correctly, described as the end of an era.

Two-thirds of Arkansas’ counties lost population between 2012 and 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Two Jonesboro investors paid $3.9 million for the Kum & Go convenience store at 2388 N. College Ave. in Fayetteville.

North Little Rock resident Sharee Ellis Young plans to open a recreational axe-throwing business at 500 N. Magnolia St. in the Argenta Historic District.

The Jim Keet family recently bought a 1.5-acre site at 15000 Cantrell Road in west Little Rock for $680,000 as a launching pad for a new Taziki’s Mediterranean Café format.

Burger King's parent says that a month-long test of the Impossible Whopper at 59 restaurants in St. Louis has gone so well that it will start testing it in additional markets. The company said it may expand sales nationally by the end of this year.

American consumers are feeling more confident this month, though optimism hasn't fully recovered from a period of roiling markets and slowed hiring early this year.

Beyond Meat, the purveyor of plant-based burgers and sausages, made its debut on the stock exchange Thursday. It's the first pure-play maker of vegan "meat" to go public, according to Renaissance Capital, which researches and tracks IPOs.

When Pulaski County voters approved a one-year, 1-cent sales tax to fund the River Project on Aug. 1, 1995, they set in motion a long line of redevelopment dominoes that led to revitalization along both sides of the river and hundreds of millions of dollars in economic growth.

Deserve is not an economic concept; it’s a marketing concept. It’s a word that allows consumers to rationalize spending money on appealing nonessentials.

The unemployment rate in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metropolitan statistical area remains near a historical low, 3.5% in February.

Little Rock is getting its own Bone’s Chophouse, the restaurant opened in Hot Springs in November 2017 by Lee Beasley.

A retail center, an eatery and undeveloped residential acreage form a west Little Rock trio of properties that generated million-dollar transactions.

The debut of a major riverfront arena 20 years ago turned out to be a warmup act for the real headliner: a sweeping transformation of downtown North Little Rock.

Verizon Arena is recognized as the key that started a redevelopment engine for downtown North Little Rock. Celebrating its 20th birthday in October, the facility is touted as an $83 million, debt-free, financially self-sufficient showcase for central Arkansas events.

Baptist Health, CARTI projects add to two decades of development on Springhill Drive in east North Little Rock, a place that was once best known as the lonely Interstate 40 location of ABF Freight’s central Arkansas terminal.

The city of North Little Rock is sprucing up the Park Hill and Levy business districts with federally funded Jump Start grants and playing a long game when it comes to economic development in those areas.

Tyson Foods Sells Stake in Beyond Meat

Roy Anderson Corp. Gets $200M Southland Expansion Contract

Little Rock Chamber Announces Partnership with SCORE

Cajun’s Owner Mary Beth Ringgold Dishes on Restaurant’s Closing

Two-Thirds of Arkansas Counties Lose Residents

Investors Pay $3.9M For Convenience Store (NWA Real Deals)

Indoor Axe Throwing Center Hopes to Make the Cut with NLR

New Keet Kitchen Coming to Cantrell

Burger King May Sell Plant-Based Burger Across US This Year

US Consumer Confidence Improves in April

Beyond Meat Goes Public As Sales of Plant-Based Meats Rise

It Worked (Editorial)

Your Just Deserts (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)

Central Arkansas Unemployment at 3.5 Percent

Bone’s Chophouse Stakes Out West Little Rock Location

Chenal Creek Shopping Center Sells for $10.7M

Between Venues, Investments Continue in Argenta

The Arena Era: Venue Set the Stage for 20 Years of Redevelopment

Springhill Medical Corridor Still Attracting Business

Grants to Jump-Start Economic Development in Park Hill, Levy