Land development

Michael Tilley, executive editor of Talk Business and Politics, provides updates on a new mixed development on Old Greenwood Road in Fort Smith. He also has progress reports on a new Sebastian County Library building and a change in the local coffee shop landscape.

Housing in Northwest Arkansas is becoming inaccessible to workers, seniors and families, according to the Walmart Family Foundation. Cobblestone Farm Community is a development south of Cobblestone Farm in Fayetteville, with the goal of providing affordable housing to about 100 families.

At their meeting this week, the Bentonville Planning Commission denied reinstating Planned Unit Development zoning on 27 acres of land near the Legacy…