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It's getting hard to keep track of all of the exciting new stuff coming to NWA.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 10:49 am
Posted on 5/6/16 at 10:49 am
Maybe we need one thread for all of it.
One of the Hunt grandsons received a permit for a distillery in Rogers. Other stuff recently announced to be excited about amenity-wise:
New modern art space in downtown Bentonville
New culinary institute in downtown Bentonville
New independent movie theaters in downtown Bentonville & Fayetteville.
New Independent live theater building for Theater Squared in downtown Fayetteville.
New climbing gym in Fayetteville, from "Climb Nashville" people.
New mountain biking trails at Mt. Kessler in Fayetteville.
Arkansas Children's Hospital in Springdale
I'm getting tired of listing, so I will stop.
Add to that, every weekend there's a different festival/event in Fayetteville. How many craft beer events are there? Ales & Tails, FoamFest. Throw in First Thursdays, Farmers Markets, Springfest, Block St Block Party, various named pubcrawls, The BFF, the IMBA, Roots Fest, OTM festival, Gulley Park Summer Concert Series...
Oh, and Shareholders week is coming up with its concerts and events.
This place makes my little head spin sometimes.
One of the Hunt grandsons received a permit for a distillery in Rogers. Other stuff recently announced to be excited about amenity-wise:
New modern art space in downtown Bentonville
New culinary institute in downtown Bentonville
New independent movie theaters in downtown Bentonville & Fayetteville.
New Independent live theater building for Theater Squared in downtown Fayetteville.
New climbing gym in Fayetteville, from "Climb Nashville" people.
New mountain biking trails at Mt. Kessler in Fayetteville.
Arkansas Children's Hospital in Springdale
I'm getting tired of listing, so I will stop.
Add to that, every weekend there's a different festival/event in Fayetteville. How many craft beer events are there? Ales & Tails, FoamFest. Throw in First Thursdays, Farmers Markets, Springfest, Block St Block Party, various named pubcrawls, The BFF, the IMBA, Roots Fest, OTM festival, Gulley Park Summer Concert Series...
Oh, and Shareholders week is coming up with its concerts and events.
This place makes my little head spin sometimes.
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Posted on 5/6/16 at 11:24 am to Numberwang
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This post was edited on 5/28/16 at 1:41 am
Posted on 5/6/16 at 12:22 pm to Numberwang
still in your head 
Posted on 5/6/16 at 12:30 pm to pioneerbasketball
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so NWA>LR
i live in LR and i don't think there's any doubt.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 2:02 pm to Hog Leg
I'm from neither originally, and have lived in both. You're right, there is no doubt.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 2:04 pm to Pigfeet
Actually, it's the opposite. I didn't think about you at all when I started this thread. I like where I live.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 2:06 pm to pioneerbasketball
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so NWA>LR
I'm pretty disinterested in that dichotomy, because I never go to Little Rock. I actually mainly post positive stuff about LR, if I bother to at all.
Spring and summer makes me realize that there's literally a grownup event worth attending a couple of times per week, just in Fayetteville. Plus the recent string of development announcements for Fayetteville and NWA is impressive for any city or region of similar size.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 2:08 pm to pioneerbasketball
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NWA>LR
i'm a swinger, i love both. i don't know why it's gotta be a competition betwixt the two.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 2:12 pm to piggilicious
I'm with you on liking both of them. I've been working in downtown Little Rock a lot lately for my job, having to stay down there a week at a time. I've really enjoyed the urban feel of actually having a fully developed downtown area. I also love the Heights area.
I'm glad to see that both areas are pretty dang liveable right now.
But hell, I work in Fort Smith now a lot as well, and I actually like that town, too. I guess that I can pretty much find something interesting and likeable about most places.
I'm glad to see that both areas are pretty dang liveable right now.
But hell, I work in Fort Smith now a lot as well, and I actually like that town, too. I guess that I can pretty much find something interesting and likeable about most places.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 2:17 pm to hogfly
Yeah, I think Little Rock is underrated as a city and their downtown is great. The comparison doesn't threaten me at all.
There's a breed of LR person who is threatened by their city not having whatever "top-status" in the state for various reasons. It's the capital city. It has a nice downtown. But I never go there because I really don't have a reason to and it is 3 hours away.
There's a breed of LR person who is threatened by their city not having whatever "top-status" in the state for various reasons. It's the capital city. It has a nice downtown. But I never go there because I really don't have a reason to and it is 3 hours away.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 2:20 pm to Numberwang
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There's a breed of LR person who is threatened by their city not having whatever "top-status" in the state for various reasons. It's the capital city. It has a nice downtown. But I never go there because I really don't have a reason to and it is 3 hours away.
I do agree with you on this to an extent. I think that XNA people are a lot more threatened by other cities in XNA than they are by LR. Most people who I know in XNA don't even really do comparisons between XNA and LR because it's like comparing apples to oranges.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 3:22 pm to hogfly
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I think that XNA people are a lot more threatened by other cities in XNA than they are by LR.
Yep. NWA cities are too busy comparing themselves to one another to think about anything as far away as Fort Smith, even.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 3:31 pm to Numberwang
I kind of like all of NWA being one big conglomerate. Rogers and Bentonville have nice things going for them, and the more nice things within driving distance, the more I win.
I'm pretty sure Fort Smith is starting to very slowly improve. It basically has nowhere to go but up anyway.
I'm pretty sure Fort Smith is starting to very slowly improve. It basically has nowhere to go but up anyway.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 5:22 pm to Numberwang
Looks like a bunch of gay hipster shite.
Posted on 5/6/16 at 6:06 pm to Numberwang
eh I'll just ask for new roads please.
This post was edited on 5/6/16 at 7:26 pm
Posted on 5/6/16 at 8:20 pm to piggilicious
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i'm a swinger, i love both. i don't know why it's gotta be a competition betwixt the two.
I grew up in and around both, and both are part of what makes Arkansas great. So many different ways to live within reach of eachother and there's literally something for everyone. I don't know why either locale would be "elitist" towards the other when we're all one in the same, but you see it all the time.
Yes NWA is booming right now and that's awesome for the state as a whole, not just the people that live up there. You could take 90% +/- of the neighborhoods and outlying areas and plop them down anywhere in the state and they'd be the same, it's just the "downtown" areas that differ from one another. No state or metro has carbon copies of itself throughout.
Posted on 5/7/16 at 2:04 pm to The Program
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Looks like a bunch of gay hipster shite.
That's the beauty of NWA. You have access to all of the gay hipster shite, in addition to the regular testosterone outdoors killing and eating stuff you have in the rest of Arkansas. You can be the gayest of gay hipsters one day, and be in a deer stand the next morning, 30 minutes from your front door. You can also converse with other humans with post-secondary vocabularies on the reg.
Posted on 5/7/16 at 2:07 pm to wmr
I don't mind the gay stuff. Hipsters drive me crazy. Plus nice dig at folks with degrees.
Posted on 5/7/16 at 9:20 pm to wmr
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in addition to the regular testosterone outdoors killing and eating stuff you have in the rest of Arkansas.
Guess I should build my next Duck hunting resort in NWA, maybe save the execs the landing and slot fees.
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Spring and summer makes me realize that there's literally a grownup event worth attending a couple of times per week,
1985 says "Hi"
Posted on 5/7/16 at 10:27 pm to Pigfeet
You are the worst poster in the world
New York City has nothing to offer. No duck hunting. Therefore, the place is a fun activity shithole. It wishes it was as awesome as Stuttgart
New York City has nothing to offer. No duck hunting. Therefore, the place is a fun activity shithole. It wishes it was as awesome as Stuttgart
This post was edited on 5/7/16 at 10:29 pm
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