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Park drawing interest of local companies, director says; also, a clarification

Brent Birch, the newly hired director of the Little Rock Technology Park, told the board this afternoon that he'd had a "volume of interest" by local companies interested in the park.
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Stealth politics at grassroots in Arkansas

A funny thing happened shortly before vote-short developer Dickson Flake got a three-month delay from the Little Rock City Board on considering his widely panned proposal to install a MAPCO filling station and 24-hour convenience store at the dangerous Third and Broadway intersection, just a block and a half from a $70 million Robinson Center Music Hall redo.
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A MAPCO update: Predictions still say it won't pass

A social event last night provided me with some first-hand background from several related parties on the raging City Hall debate on the proposal to install a 24-hour MAPCO gas station and beer outlet within two blocks of the front steps of the Robinson Auditorium, where a $70 million renovation has begun. PREDICTION: The proposal can't pass, but eternal vigilance is required.

The Sponsored by Oaklawn Special Session Edition

The upcoming special session of the Arkansas General Assembly, the latest on the bid to overturn the state's voter ID law, a split emerging among Arkansas Supreme Court justices and the politics surrounding a proposal to build a Mapco on 3rd and Broadway in downtown Little Rock — all covered on this week's edition.
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Tech Park site investigator narrows search

The realtor looking at possible sites downtown on Main Street where the Little Rock Technology Park might build or lease says two of the four clusters in the "technology corridor" have insufficient properties available to accommodate the park.

Finally a decision on the Little Rock Tech Park: Downtown

Or not. Tech board will seek more advice.
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Private business gets its nose in government's tent: See LR Chamber and Tech Park

I recommend this reporting by the Center for Public Integrity because the ills it highlights are already creeping into Arkansas.

Pressure on the park board: Build it downtown

Pressure on the Little Rock Technology Park Authority board to use its city tax dollars to build or revamp buildings downtown for the park is growing, coming from the mayor, the governor, a technology business and one of the sponsors of the park.
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Tech Park travails: Champions and obstacles for a downtown site

If you listen to our podcast you heard me say yesterday that I'm not sure the best option for the Little Rock Technology Park misadventure isn't pulling the plug.

Tech park board to seek input from new consultant, schools

The Little Rock Technology Park Authority Board will seek input from tech park development and management firm Wexford Science and Technology to assist in getting the Little Rock park off the ground, chair Mary Good said Monday.
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Mayor Mark Stodola blasts new Tech Park site option

Here's the Tech Park leadership development I mentioned last night. Mayor Mark Stodola has written a tough letter to members of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority board with questions about the late arrival of an alternative site on University Avenue consisting of two pieces of property several blocks apart.

Tech Park talk underway

Leslie Newell Peacock is covering the meeting of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority. Kelly Dudzik of Fox 16 supplied the photo above via Twitter of a good crowd gathered as the board discusses finalists for a site, all of them unsuitable in the eyes of a hired-gun consultant operating under the sway of tech park godfather Dickson Flake.
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