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The East Roosevelt Shopping Center at 1000 E. Roosevelt Road has changed hands. The to-be-renovated shopping center was bought by LMS LLC, led by Tommy Lasiter, president of the Doyle Rogers Co.; Steve Strauss; and the Moses family of Moses Tucker Real Estate. The group bought the property from East Roosevelt Road Shopping Center LLC, led by Bruce Thalheimer and Bob Sherman for $650,000. The shopping center is anchored by a Kroger store and will be getting another retailer fo

The World Services for the Blind Foundation has selected Charles Morgan to receive its Vision Award to honor his commitment to community service. The 15th annual Vision Award will be presented at a luncheon from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday at the downtown Little Rock DoubleTree Hotel. The Vision Award was created to recognize and honor the achievements of an Arkansan who has demonstrated far-reaching vision in orchestrating events through business enterprise and community inv

Moses Tucker Real Estate announced Friday the $10.5 million sale of the new MacArthur Commons apartment complex at 414 East Capitol Ave. in downtown Little Rock. Previously the site of Arkla Gas headquarters, the 59-unit, three-story building was originally planned to include 84 units and cost $13 million. It was designed to provide upscale, yet affordable housing for residents looking to live downtown. The complex, announced in August 2013, offers amenities including street-

In its heyday, the hustle and bustle of editors, reporters, print-setters, and photographers winding actively throughout the loud printing presses of the Arkansas Democrat, was a daily happening from the time it was built in 1916, until the printing presses ceased to run in the early 1930’s. Charles Thompson designed the building in 1916 for the Arkansas Democrat Newspaper. The Democrat was an active competitor to the local Gazette during the entirety of its life. After the D