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NEW INITIATIVE COMBINES
TRADITION WITH INNOVATION
by Heather R. Johnson
Fayetteville is home and designing products.
to traditional When workers finish renovation
manufacturing
companies, a top of the 80-year-old building, it
research university will include extra meeting space,
and high-tech local artwork and an installation
startups. Separately, these comprising multiple flat-screen
entities do well. Together, TVs that will display an ongoing
they can accomplish much image slideshow.
more. This is the idea behind
“Fayetteville Connect: Together “That’s what innovation
We Achieve,” a new initiative is —change,” Clark says.
launched by the Fayetteville
Chamber of Commerce. Across the street, another
historic building holds the
“We are the third-largest David and Barbara Pryor Center
community in the state and for Arkansas Oral and Visual
among the most diverse,” History as well as Startup
Steve Clark, president and CEO Junkie Consulting, which
of the Fayetteville Chamber, fosters emerging start-up/
says. “What was once a sleepy venture ecosystems. Nearby, in
university town has blossomed the former post office building,
into city with a technology park, Hayseed Ventures, a venture
a teaching medical school and capital fund, identifies and funds
traditional manufacturing. All early-stage start-ups.
of these things are Fayetteville
and together, we achieve.” “Having Startup Junkie,
Hayseed, the Innovation Hub
INNOVATION and the UofA together ensures
FUELS GROWTH creative collisions between
talent, capital and existing
The new initiative business can happen naturally
encompasses key developments over a cup of coffee or a cold
that span from the town square beer,” says Jeff Amerine, Startup
to busy College Avenue. The Junkie founding principal and
Chamber’s move to the square’s Innovate Arkansas adviser.
Bradberry Building puts the “Making it easy to collaborate
agency at the heart of what will is a key aspect of any successful
become a designated Innovation venture scene.”
District. In the same building,
the Fayetteville Fab Lab will COLLEGE AVENUE
offer a maker space with 3D FLOURISHES
printers, CNC machines, and
other equipment for prototyping College Avenue
development will also help
attract new residents and
businesses to Fayetteville.
13livability.com /ar / fayetteville
TRADITION WITH INNOVATION
by Heather R. Johnson
Fayetteville is home and designing products.
to traditional When workers finish renovation
manufacturing
companies, a top of the 80-year-old building, it
research university will include extra meeting space,
and high-tech local artwork and an installation
startups. Separately, these comprising multiple flat-screen
entities do well. Together, TVs that will display an ongoing
they can accomplish much image slideshow.
more. This is the idea behind
“Fayetteville Connect: Together “That’s what innovation
We Achieve,” a new initiative is —change,” Clark says.
launched by the Fayetteville
Chamber of Commerce. Across the street, another
historic building holds the
“We are the third-largest David and Barbara Pryor Center
community in the state and for Arkansas Oral and Visual
among the most diverse,” History as well as Startup
Steve Clark, president and CEO Junkie Consulting, which
of the Fayetteville Chamber, fosters emerging start-up/
says. “What was once a sleepy venture ecosystems. Nearby, in
university town has blossomed the former post office building,
into city with a technology park, Hayseed Ventures, a venture
a teaching medical school and capital fund, identifies and funds
traditional manufacturing. All early-stage start-ups.
of these things are Fayetteville
and together, we achieve.” “Having Startup Junkie,
Hayseed, the Innovation Hub
INNOVATION and the UofA together ensures
FUELS GROWTH creative collisions between
talent, capital and existing
The new initiative business can happen naturally
encompasses key developments over a cup of coffee or a cold
that span from the town square beer,” says Jeff Amerine, Startup
to busy College Avenue. The Junkie founding principal and
Chamber’s move to the square’s Innovate Arkansas adviser.
Bradberry Building puts the “Making it easy to collaborate
agency at the heart of what will is a key aspect of any successful
become a designated Innovation venture scene.”
District. In the same building,
the Fayetteville Fab Lab will COLLEGE AVENUE
offer a maker space with 3D FLOURISHES
printers, CNC machines, and
other equipment for prototyping College Avenue
development will also help
attract new residents and
businesses to Fayetteville.
13livability.com /ar / fayetteville
