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Volvo Construction Equipment
Rents
Opens Second Arkansas Rental Center
Volvo Construction
Equipment Rents Inc. recently announced the opening of its second Volvo Rents
equipment rental center in Arkansas.
Arkansas Rental Company LLC, owned
by R. C. Coburn, has opened its second Volvo Rents center in Arkansas at 316 Thomas
Road in Pine Bluff.
The company opened its first Volvo Rents operation
in Little Rock in late 2003. The new rental center, an independently owned and
operated franchise, will carry a comprehensive line of essential equipment and
tools for the construction, commercial, industrial and homeowner markets, in addition
to Volvo construction equipment.
Volvo Rents equipment centers are independently
owned and operated franchises within the Volvo Construction Equipment rental program.
Community revitalization
grant awarded to Little Rock project National Trust for Historic Preservation
President Richard Moe and HGTV President Burton Jablin announced recently that
grants were awarded to 12 U.S. projects as part of the multi-million-dollar Restore
America: A Salute to Preservation partnership.
Restore America focuses
on the role that preservation plays in the revitalization of communities and supports
community re-investment projects.
In North Little Rock, a $50,000 grant
will be used to restore the Argenta Drug Store.
Said to be the oldest
continuously operating drug store west of the Mississippi, the Argenta Drug Store
has operated at the corner of Main and 4th Streets in North Little Rock since
1887.
Until the 1950s, the second floor - now boarded up and used for storage
- housed 11 apartments. The drug store is among the most historically significant
properties in Arkansas and is unique among historic properties in the United States
due to its prominent location, original architecture and exclusive operation as
a pharmacy.
Grant funds will be used by Argenta Community Development
Corporation to reopen and rehabilitate the second floor into residential lofts,
not only preserving the local landmark, but boosting economic vitality in a downtown
area.
HGTV donated $1 million for the 2005-2006 campaign of Restore America
to fund community revitalization grants. More than 100 grant applications were
received from nonprofit organizations and public agencies across the country to
complete residential projects.
Twelve projects were selected, ranging
from artists' lofts adapted from an abandoned hospital in Houston, Texas, and
a Victorian home in Conn., that will be restored to a single-family home, to the
renovation of entire historic neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Savannah,
Ga. The recipients have been awarded grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 for
the community revitalization projects.
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