In 1961, the Arkansas Amusement Co. spent $250,000 to erect a sprawling new attraction for automobile users on the site of the decade-old Riverside Drive-In in Little Rock.
Xcited Riverdale LLC, a group of Arkansas partners formed by T.J. Lefler of Lefler Capital in Fayetteville, bought the Riverdale Shopping Center at 2500-2610 Cantrell Road.
In Sunday s column I outlined current trends that play to Little Rock s benefit: tremendous growth in the financial sector as companies such as Bank OZK and Simmons Bank become major regional players; the steady growth of the health-care sector, which will only speed up as the nation ages; the fact that the Little Rock area has become a distribution hub at a time when the supply chain has never been more important.