Current Projects

Here’s what’s underway in Downtown Springdale

Market Center of the Ozarks

  • Estimated Completion: 2024

  • This new food hub will be located  just off of East Emma Avenue and west of the Springdale Municipal Airport. The 45,000 square foot facility will offer community space for learning, commercial kitchens, and crop aggregation capabilities to local farmers, food entrepreneurs, and residents.

100 West Emma Project

  • Estimated Completion of exterior renovation: Fall 2024

  • Redevelopment of an historic bank building on Emma Avenue. The 35,000 square foot building will feature food & beverage establishments on the 1st floor with office space on the 2nd floor. Expected openings include Onyx Coffee Lab and Gaskins Steakhouse.

The Star on Spring

  • Estimated Completion: Early 2025

  • Located at 101 Spring Street, the nearly 10,000 square ft, historic building is being renovated into an art-deco style Airbnb boutique hotel called The Star on Spring. Featuring 10 Standard/Double rooms, and 3 Luxury Suites, the stylish and spacious rooms will feature upscale comforts and amenities designed for even the most discerning guests.

  • To learn more, click here.

The “Big Emma” Development

  • Estimated Completion: Summer 2025

  • Construction of a 77-unit mixed-income apartment at the southeast corner of Emma Avenue and Park Street. 30 units will be permanently reserved for households earning below the area median income in NWA. The complex will include a ground-floor coffee shop. Read more.

  • “Creating affordable housing is really hard, but Big Emma demonstrates the power and opportunity that exists when nonprofits, the business community, philanthropy, and our cities commit, and act, on a shared priority.” - Duke McClarty, Northwest Arkansas Council

New Senior Center

  • Estimated completion: 2025

  • The plan for the new, two-story Senior Center calls for an open gathering place, meeting rooms of various sizes, outdoor gathering areas and pickleball courts. Buffalo Builders broke ground on this project on August 6, 2024.