Business View Magazine | March 2019

220 MAUMELLE, ARKANSAS they put in years ago, walking paths, four-lane roadways, boulevards, divided medians, and a pretty robust park system.” A wealth of global companies are located in the city’s industrial park, including Kimberly- Clark, Molex, Dillard’s, Ace Hardware, PepsiCo, and Cintas, and the search is ongoing for new businesses that are the right fit. Watson ex- plains, “These are all in one industrial area on the east side of Maumelle Blvd. - light manu- facturing or distribution only. We can’t even have an auto parts plant because that’s con- sidered too heavy of industrial zoning for our district. It goes back to the original Jess Odom plan. When they designed the town, they want- ed industrial on one side of Maumelle Blvd. and residential and commercial on the other side. That’s slightly changed over the years for various reasons. One being that part of the east side area has wetlands, and the industry sites didn’t fit well with that, so the developers created a golf course and built homes around it. That’s our largest subdivision, Country Club of Arkansas, with over 1,300 lots. Our other 18- hole golf course, the Maumelle Country Club, was actually the first facility to open in Mau- melle, even before the first house was built.”