Business View Magazine | July 2020

159 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2020 parts of town for commercial development that had been not very marketable, simply because there wasn’t a road with interchange access. So, we’re getting a lot of attention from businesses and industries that want to be centrally located in the state. “Maumelle began as a planned community and some of those themes have played out to make it a really good place to do business and live. We even have some light industrial and distribution areas in our existing industrial park, as well as some land zoned industrial out at the new interchange. But primarily we’re looking at it from a commercial perspective in that area. It’s a prime location just outside of Little Rock with a college community a few miles up the road. However, on the other side of town that I call North Maumelle, there is an old area that’s right off I-40, where we have a planning initiative designed for revitalizing the site with commercial to engage a lot of the stakeholders.” Grummer: “The City of Maumelle has two areas that border the interstate. Given that the new interchange is all greenfield open for new commercial, there’s a lot of residential starting to build out along there. It’s only been open a few months but we’re already seeing traffic the counts exceeding 6,000 per day. But the North Maumelle interchange is an existing commercial area that has for a long time been an interstate stop. Now, we’re looking at revitalization of that area to turn it into what the business owners and residents want to see –more restaurants and commercial destinations. “That area is about 15 minutes from Conway to the north, which has a population of about 60,000, as well as three colleges. And the new interchange is within 15 minutes of downtown Little Rock. So, the population served within a 30 mile radius is about 300,000 and we’re finding that Maumelle is starting to generate interest and activity with commercial, and corporate, and industrial sites such as distribution. Dillard’s Distribution have their only online fulfillment MAUMELLE , ARKANSAS