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Posts tagged
'Richard Mays'

A new entry in the fight to control hog farm pollution

A new environmental group has filed comments today with Arkansas environmental regulators to do away with an easy permit process for hog farms, one that led to permitting of a hog farm in an unsuitable place in the Buffalo River watershed.
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Lawsuit challenges Tech Park condemnation authority

Richard Mays, the Little Rock lawyer, has sued the Little Rock Technology Park Authority preemptively over its threat to condemn his office building at 415 Main Street for the government agency's plan to establish a tech park downtown.
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Tech park agrees to terms of $17.5 million from consortium

The Little Rock Technology Park Authority board this afternoon signed off, with one nay vote, on the terms of two loans totaling $17.5 million offered by a consortium of Little Rock banks led by Centennial Bank. The authority board also agreed to extend the deadline for Richard Mays to accept its offer of $845,000 for his building at 415 Main St. to noon Friday. The deadline had been noon today.

Tech Park: Yes to Mays' appraisal for Main Street property: Clarification

The Little Rock Technology Park Authority board voted this afternoon to offer Richard Mays $845,000, the sum his appraiser reached for his building at 415 Main St., while concurrently preparing to file a condemnation lawsuit. Mays has until noon Nov. 16 to agree to the offer; otherwise, the board will proceeds with a lawsuit.
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New appraisal on Main: No need for eminent domain?

The Little Rock Technology Park Authority has received an updated appraisal of 415 Main St., a two-story, 10,020-square-foot office building owned by lawyer Richard Mays, that puts its value at $670,000.

Tech Park steps in it again; talks of condemning land on which it made low-ball offer

The Tech Park does it again. Tries to lowball a property owner with an offer below the value appraised for taxes after paying a fat amount above tax value for Stephens property downtown.
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Tech Park considers exercising eminent domain to acquire Main Street property

It was a long Little Rock Technology Park Authority board meeting tonight, as the board took up issues of eminent domain and heard from the attorney for a credit union that has been excluded from a lending proposal to the park.

Hutchinson appoints Faulkner Sheriff Andy Shock to state Parole Board

Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced today that he'd appointed Andy Shock, the Republican sheriff of Faulkner County, to the state Parole Board to replace Richard Mays, who resigned last month.
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State investment in Soul of the South TV network sours

Arkansas Business' Sean Beherec continues to mine the public record for evidence that the state's investment in the Soul of the South, a TV network targeting a black audience in its original conception, seems unlikely to bring a return.

The Beebe legacy: 'Can-do.' Also: taking care of friends

With a year left in his tenure as governor, Mike Beebe sat down with John Lyon of Stephens Media to talk about his legacy.
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New plan for Ark. Career Education on Capitol

I've written previously about real estate dealings ( and also here) of the Arkansas Career Education Department, headed by former state Sen. Bill Walker.

What's Robert Trevino got to hide?

My recent reporting on some real estate deals between the Arkansas Department of Career Services, headed by Bill Walker, and businesses headed by his friend Richard Mays triggered a steady flow of phone calls about the agency and its Rehabilitation Services Division.
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