Historically Low Interest Rates for SBA 504 Loans

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The Arkansas Capital Corporation Group today announced Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 loan rates are at 4.01% – the lowest 20-year, fixed-rate available since the program began in 1987. Through the SBA 504 loan product, borrowers get low, fixed-interest rate loans with no balloon or demand feature for up to 20 years. [Read more…]

Youth Entrepreneurship Showcase Announces Top 25 Teams

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Top 25 to compete and sell their products January 18, 2013 at Park Plaza Mall

Youth Entrepreneurship Showcase (Y.E.S.) for Arkansas, a statewide business plan competition for fifth to eight graders, announced the top 25 teams today. The teams were selected from a field of 204 teams made up of more than 600 students from across Arkansas. All of the teams created a business plan for a new concept so they could compete for an opportunity to turn their ideas into reality.
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Bert King Joins Arkansas Capital Corporation

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Bert KingThe Arkansas Capital Corporation Group (ACCG) is pleased to name Bert King vice president of servicing and portfolio management. King brings a broad range of legal and financial expertise to ACCG with a background in finance. King will be replacing Jerry Adams, senior vice president of servicing and portfolio management. Adams plans to retire in the spring of 2013. “I am excited that King has joined Arkansas Capital,” said C. Sam Walls, chief executive officer, Arkansas Capital Corporation. “King’s broad banking expertise along with his specific legal knowledge of the financial industry makes him a great fit for ACCG and its lending affiliates.” King previously served as general counsel for HomeBank of Arkansas for the past 5 years. He is a 2006 Graduate of UALR’s William H. Bowen School of Law and is a member of the 2014 Class at the Barret Graduate School of Banking. King is based in the The Arkansas Capital Corporation Group Little Rock office located downtown on River Market Avenue. [Read more…]

Business Honor Society Recognizes Arkansas Capital Corporation Exec

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Sam-Walls-and-Dr.-WaylandThe College’s Business Beta Gamma Sigma chapter recognized Chief Operating Officer of the Arkansas Capital Corporation Group, C. Sam Walls, as its honoree Nov. 29. Walls is a 1969 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in History. Upon graduation, Walls was diverted from his planned path of a career in the field of law when he became associated with Dillard’s Department stores of Little Rock, AR. After seven years, his entrepreneurial spark was ignited, and he embarked on a lifelong path of serial entrepreneurship, economic development, and entrepreneurial education and development. [Read more…]

Arkansas Capital Corp. Entities Receive Volume Lending Awards

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Arkansas Capital Corporation Group (ACCG) was presented with two volume lending awards, by the U.S. Small Business Administration. SBA District Director Linda Nelson presented the awards for 2012 Top 504 Volume Lender and 2012 Rising Star to Six Bridges Capital Corporation and Arkansas Capital Corporation, respectively. Arkansas Capital Corporation (ACC) and Six Bridges Capital Corporation (6BCC) are key entities in the lending division of the Arkansas Capital Corporation Group (ACCG). [Read more…]

Northwest Arkansas Hotel Reopens as Chancellor Hotel

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Heartland is proud to announce the grand opening of the Chancellor Hotel in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas. The ribbon cutting was held on Friday, September 14. Read our press release to learn more.  If you would like to see photos of the newly-renovated hotel, the Fayeteville Flyer has a great gallery from the ribbon cutting. The Chancellor was also featured on Arkansas Business’s website. [Read more…]

Mann on Main Sparks Redevelopment

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Following the start of renovations on the Mann Building, a Heartland Renaissance Fund project, redevelopment on Downtown Little Rock’s Main Street is booming. Arkansas Business quotes Mayor Mark Stodola as saying that seven Main Street structures are currently under contract for redevelopment. [Read more…]

UA Educator Reeves Dubbed Job Creator

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Carol Reeves and her students from the UA take home multiple awards at the Arkansas Governor`s Cup business competition this spring in Little Rock.
Carol Reeves and her students from the UA take home multiple awards at the Arkansas Governor`s Cup business competition this spring in Little Rock.
Even many well established businesses can’t boast the creation of more than 100 jobs in six years, but one University of Arkansas professor has those bragging rights. Carol Reeves, the University’s Associate Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, has led her students to create six successful startups in six years, and that’s not even counting all of the ventures springing from her classes. [Read more…]

Protecting Your Business Credit Score

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Are you aware that your business has a credit score? There are business credit bureaus that collect data and provide this data to issuers of credit to businesses. Why should this matter to you? By having credit under the name of your business, you are limiting the impact of your business finances on your own personal credit score. [Read more…]

Little Rock Main Street Building to Get New Life

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Heartland Renaissance Fund announced today the allocation of new market tax credits to Blass Property, LLC, a renovation project of the historic Blass Building in Little Rock. The seven-story building and its three-level annex building will be renovated for mixed use including offices, retail space, and residential lofts. This is the first project to combine the use of historic tax credits and new market tax credits in Arkansas. [Read more…]