Highway 67’s Big Upgrade: Arkansas’s Path to Interstate 57 for Economic Growth
For those of you who have traveled Highway 67 in Arkansas for years, a major change is coming. The road will be converted to Interstate 57 and will eventually run from Chicago to North Little Rock. Over the past 60 years, $5 billion dollars has been spent on this project. The next section of the […]
A Growing City Where New Infrastructure is Key
By Deborah Horn White Hall city officials welcomed a new 87,000 sq. ft. Jefferson Regional Specialty Hospital in May, the latest of many recent groundbreakings, grand openings, and home starts. This is another concrete sign that the small city, with a population of almost 6,000 and once considered “just” a bedroom community of Pine Bluff, […]
80 Years After D-Day
Joe Quinn, AGRF Executive Director On a beautiful night recently, I was driving through White Hall as the sun started to set, and there wasn’t much passing traffic. It was a peaceful moment…a welcome break near the end of what had been a stressful week. As I drove past the little White Hall Museum, I […]
Holder named to Good Roads Foundation Executive Board
Garver Director of Enterprise Solutions Jerry Holder, PE, has been named to the Executive Board of the Arkansas Good Roads Foundation, a position from which he’ll continue to support the advancement of infrastructure in the state where Garver was founded more than a century ago. Holder has spent almost four decades delivering infrastructure solutions across the […]
Honor Them in a Way That is Worthy
It’s a Friday afternoon, and the tenth floor at the Arkansas Department of Transportation building is quiet. Director Lorie Tudor and I sit in her office and talk about the memorial being planned for ARDOT workers and Arkansas Highway Police Officers who have died while working. Some states already have elaborate memorials built. Arkansas only has a very modest display involving orange highway cones in an office hallway. Each cone represents an ARDOT worker who has died while working.