Charles Dilks, the consultant to the Little Rock Technology Park Authority board, has sent the board further evaluation of three locations the board is considering for construction of the park.
After deciding that Building 5 on Allied Drive was poorly configured for wet labs and clusters of tech businesses, the Little Rock Technology Park Authority board eliminated it from consideration as a site for the park.
The board of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Bailey Center on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus to discuss the four potential park sites the board visited last week.
The Little Rock Technology Park Authority got a big surprise last night: Though the board chose a terrible time (7:30 p.m., apparently to accommodate chair Dr. Mary Good’s schedule) and place (the Engineering and Information Technology Building at UALR, where Good works and which was a several block hike in the dark from the closest accessible parking lot), there was substantial turnout.
Former Congressman Vic Snyder will moderate at a public hearing tonight on the Little Rock Technology Park, set at the less- than-felicitous time of 7:30 p.m. at UALR's Engineering and Information Technology Building, Room 203.
The Little Rock Technology Park Authority Board with little debate this afternoon set public hearings on the four sites identified by a consultant as the best among those submitted as sites for the city-financed building intended to lure technology companies to town.
A private consultant, Charles Dilks, has apparently completed his recommendation for four sites from among 23 submitted for the Little Rock Technology Park Authority to consider for construction of the first phase of a construction project aimed at attracting tech business to Little Rock.
I've now heard from two people who attend a committee meeting of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority designed to ease concerns of the residential neighborhoodsd between UAMS and UALR initially targeted as potential sites for the taxpayer-funded office building.
Little Rock Tech Park consultant Charles Dilks will be asked to review the 23 sites proposed to the park Authority and make recommendations to the board by Oct. 10 for what he considers to be the top three, four or five, the board decided today at its meeting.
The non-profit University District Development Corp. headed by Ron Copeland and Flake & Kelley Commercial today proposed an alternative to the residential sites first considered by the Little Rock Technology Park Authority that includes 84.37 acres just south of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus, of which 14 acres is available for immediate development.