Places worth keeping, and the coalitions moving them forward.
Adaptive reuse, historic tax-credit rehabilitation, feasibility, and community development help worthwhile projects move forward. Every project starts with a place and the people already invested in it.
The work tells the story.
Selected projects across Arkansas and Mississippi include work that is completed, under construction, in development, and preparing for the next phase. Additional projects are currently in design.
The Mulberry Community Center
Two long-combined buildings on Hamburg's square become event spaces and a commercial kitchen conceived as a job incubator, with a storefront built around salvaged Carpenter Hotel elements.
Winrock ASPIRE
Four right-sized community facility concepts — a community center, a grocery store, a community hall, and an emergency operations center — designed with four rural Arkansas towns.
Keo Main Street Commercial Properties
Coordinated adaptive-reuse and storefront concepts for multiple downtown properties in a town of 207, timed to Main Street's centennial in 2026.
Phillips County Splash Park
A downtown park shaped by student charettes, giving Helena a connection to water a few blocks from the levee — with a shaded pavilion, bright furnishings, and colorful lighting at night.
Great River Road Market
A neglected Greenville warehouse envisioned as a market hall, demonstration kitchen, incubator storefronts, urban gardens, and the Delta Menagerie.
Downtown Leland Mixed-Use — Phase 1
Storefronts replicated from 1927 Flood photographs return three contiguous buildings to active retail as Lagniappe Leland — recognized by AIA Mississippi and the Mississippi Heritage Trust.
Downtown Leland Mixed-Use — Phase 2
Three more adjoining buildings rehabilitated for a bookstore, boutique retail, and wellness services, bringing six historic buildings on the block back into use.
Grumpy Rabbit American Eatery
A dynamic adaptive reuse of the 1915 Joe P. Eagle Building that has since inspired other rehabilitations in the historic district and put Lonoke back on the map.
Leland Downtown Playbook
A property inventory, connectivity analysis, resource matrix, and market study built into one playbook the Chamber and local owners can act on across eleven planned renovations.
The Griot Center
A 1918 department store and the former Paramount Theater become one home for youth arts education, performance, film, and creative workforce development.
Ritz Theater
A 1938 movie house donated to a college and brought back in phases — restored facade and neon marquee, renewed lobby and auditorium, and a new conference center next door.
ALPS Lonoke Storefront Rehabilitation
Non-historic layers come off a much-altered Front Street facade, and reclaimed light-industrial floor area becomes 1,376 square feet of new boutique retail at the street.
Historic Osceola Times Building
A multi-phase rehabilitation of the oldest standing building in Osceola, named to Preserve Arkansas's 2023 Most Endangered Places list after a partial roof collapse.
Lyons Drug
Fifty years of awnings and metal panels come off the 1928 McCrary Building, uncovering the transom glass and reviving the historic Lyons sign artwork.
The work compounds in one place.
Two downtowns where a single project became a sequence, each finished building making the next one easier to fund.
East 3rd Street
A playbook made the case for the block. Six historic buildings have followed it back into use, and the method became a service other communities can commission.
- 2022Leland Downtown Playbook
- 2024Mixed-Use Phase 1, 108–112 E 3rd Street
- 2025Mixed-Use Phase 2, 102–106 E 3rd Street
- SinceCreative Strategy Guidebook, the offering it prototyped
Front Street and beyond
One restaurant changed what the rest of the historic district believed was possible. The storefronts on either side followed, and the approach is now at work in Keo.
- 2021Grumpy Rabbit American Eatery
- NowALPS Storefront Rehabilitation, 109 Front Street SW
- NowLyons Drug, the 1928 McCrary Building
- NextKeo Main Street, twelve miles south
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