EStem Goes East With Warehouse Buy
Did you know that eStem Public Charter Schools has purchased the future location for its new elementary and middle school in Little Rock? The nonprofit paid $1.7 million for the 111,096-SF warehouse at 400 Shall Ave. Seller: Central Arkansas Area Agency on Aging Inc., led by Luke Mattingly. The 3.7-acre property on the edge of the Heifer Project headquarters campus is slated for redevelopment in time to open for the 2018-19 school year. The project is part of a facilities exp
Positive Numbers Provide Pleasant Surprise on Office Front
More improvement in office occupancy in the Pulaski County market this year came as a mild surprise. “We were sort of anticipating a soft first quarter 2016,” said John Martin, principal and vice president of commercial brokerage at Little Rock’s Moses Tucker Real Estate Inc. “But we ended up with positive absorption of 70,800 SF.” The occupancy rate of the 14.5 million-SF central Arkansas office market reached 92.8 percent during the first three months of the year. That upwa
Work at 615 S. Main St. in Little Rock is moving along, but not without headaches
Renovating 615 S. Main St. in Little Rock has not come without its challenges. Moses Tucker Real Estate President Chris Moses candidly acknowledges that starting from the ground up would have been much easier than rehabbing the two-story, 14,000-square-foot building. "Just tearing it down and starting from scratch would've been more cost effective," Moses said during a recent tour of the property. "But you'd lose one of the coolest buildings in the city. Just the facade alone
Grand Champion - Jimmy Moses
How have you been involved in the development of East Village? What we [Moses Tucker Real Estate] primarily have done is work with the Cromwell firm in conceiving and trying to develop a concept for the new neighborhood. [The Sterling Paint building] has been for sale for a long time. And like so many things, all of a sudden it dawned on everyone. This could be the start of something exciting - a new, edgier neighborhood for downtown Little Rock. That building being avai
