Business View Magazine | March 2019

231 located in Batesville, and those are just a few of our valued businesses.” BVM: With all the economic growth, do you have sufficient housing stock available? Baldwin: “With the population increase and demand in the county, the availability of hous- ing has declined. In my opinion, that’s a good problem to have, because we have grown to the point where we need to work on it. Our local hospital in Batesville has started a resi- dency program for family practice and internal medicine in partnership with the University of Arkansas and once it’s fully engaged, 80 young doctors and their families will need qual- ity housing. Dale and I like to make loans to people to buy existing houses and there are also some housing developments being built now.” Cole: “I’ve lived here 31 years, so I’ve seen it change dramatically, and the population is re- ally starting to grow now with the healthy in- dustrial base. In housing, we have what I call a balanced product available. And we struggled with that for a number of years, until three years ago, a local builder started construction on a very nice 104-unit apartment project. The success of this project proved the market. Today there are new subdivisions and housing options for all market segments in Batesville tristatetruck.com Complete truck sales and leasing as well as parts, service and body shop services in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Family owned since 1945