Sometimes I come across something that I think is interesting and it just doesn’t quite fit in the space available that month. For instance, there was a sale on the west side of Little Rock at the end of the year. According to the records at the Pulaski County Assessor...

This column originated from a series of conversations about people asking me what’s happening at such-and-such property. Shopping centers in general, and enclosed malls in particular, have experienced dramatic shifts in shopping patterns and often in occupancy over rec...

As you read this, the year is 2020. We will have welcomed a new year and a new decade. From what I’ve seen via my limited time on social media, there seems to be some debate on if ’20 is the first year of a new decade or the last year of the current decade. I’m going w...

Apartments were the hot property segment last month. One owner dominated the market with the sale of a collection of big-ticket apartment-home communities.  

The Ridge at Chenal Valley is 312 units on 26 acres sited on the north side of Chenenonceau Boulevard, near the...

All markets have cycles. That’s the conventional wisdom. You may be wondering where commercial real estate is in the economic cycle? I know I do. I get asked similar questions often. Specifically, I get asked about where Little Rock is in the cycle? You may have the sa...

The deadline for this column is about a week before you see it in print. So, while this is a first-hand knowledge, bona-fide “scoop” as I write it, it may be old news by the time you read about it. You may recall that in 2016 the former Sears building and the medical o...

There’s been a lot of buzz about Trader Joe’s coming to Little Rock. Repurposing of existing retail building has been a recurring topic in this column. All the drama in the media about the “retail apocalypse” is, and has been, overblown. There has been a tectonic shift...

Summer … it seems that news slows in the summer. Maybe the deal activity is there, yet there is less conversation because so many people are getting ready to go on vacation, are gone on vacation, or are catching up after vacation. I know that is true for me. The kiddo...

I had the opportunity last month to be interviewed as part of the “AR Story” series being done by the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. In the interview we talked a little about some things happening in the Midtown area of Little Rock. Keep an eye out in the co...

Nearly 100 people attended the “Building a Better Little Rock, Building a Better Life” happy hour program hosted by the Commercial Real Estate Council of Metro Little Rock at The Fitzroy on Chenal Parkway. The program included presentations on the development of the pr...