Benefits elude Bentonville; empty industrial park points out problems in home of Wal-Mart. (Bentonville Industrial Park, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.)

Arkansas Business | November 1, 1993| | Copyright

WHILE WAL-MART Stores Inc. has enjoyed enormous prosperity, the city in which it is headquartered has not reaped many of the benefits of the boom the region is experiencing.

This is best illustrated by the Bentonville Industrial Park.

The city purchased the 104-acre site on Southeast J Street more than a decade ago and began actively trying to develop it about five years ago. The result: a vacant field. The only sign of activity in the park is a new 50,000-SF speculative building on the park's northwest corner being built by the city in an attempt to attract some ...

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