The FCRA is the economic development project in Fort Smith behind Chaffee Crossing, and it released its 2022 annual report. One measure in the report shows more than $4 million in real estate taxes have been generated by property sold last year.

A new report examines how the Fort Chaffee area has grown in the last 25 years. Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business & Politics, breaks it down for us.

2022 was a record-breaking year for the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority, according to the organization’s annual report released Wednesday (Jan. 25). The report noted that 2022 property sales totaled $3.8 million, and returned 66 acres to taxable property.

City directors unanimously approved entering into a roughly $24,000 agreement with Frontier Metropolitan Planning Organization to create an updated active mobility, bicycle and pedestrian plan for the city that will include consideration of new trails in Chaffee Crossing.

Chaffee Crossing has been bursting with new multifamily residential options in Fort Smith and Barling recently, with the latest project breaking ground Tuesday.

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Owners of a whiskey distillery want to expand operations to the Historic District at Chaffee Crossing. The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) approved the $675,000 sale of Building 339 and 5.32 acres to Axe and the Oak Distillery.