Business View Magazine | July 2020

172 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2020 riverfront more user friendly. It’s a great spot now but it could be better. A place where families can go and enjoy the water. There are plans for walking trails and bridges across the river so you can go full circle. That could be one of the biggest attractors of people for this area. This community believes in itself and has a vision for the future. And it works together to make that vision happen. It’s a winning team and that intangible is what drives us.” PREFERRED VENDORS n First Community Bank www.firstcommunitybank.com First Community Bank, which is locally owned and managed, opened August 4, 1997, in Batesville, Arkansas, and currently operates 24 full-service branches in Arkansas and Missouri. First Community employs more than 400 professional bankers and reports assets of $1.47 billion as of December 31, 2018. n The Citizens Bank www.thecitizensbank.net Citizens Bank, founded in 1953, is an $860 million financial services organization, named in 2018 by the American Bankers Association as the best bank in the U.S. for Community and Economic Development.