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The word that Starbucks is coming to Wedington Drive in west Fayetteville is now official, and the coffee shop is bringing some dental care, too.

Haag-Brown Development LLC of Jonesboro announced it would build a retail center at the corner of Weddington and Timberland Lane, in front of the Walmart Neighborhood Market. Haag-Brown paid $803,464 for 1.19 acres.

Principals Joshua Brown and Greg Haag said the retail center would include a Starbucks and an Arkansas Braces. The Jonesboro office of IberiaBank of Lafayette, Louisiana, provided a construction loan of $1.65 million, and Haag-Brown said work would begin soon at the site at 3485 Weddington.

Clinton Bennett of CBRE Northwest Arkansas represented Haag-Brown, and Hank Kelley of Flake & Kelley Commercial of Little Rock represented Starbucks.

Click here to read the full article written by Marty Cook with Arkansas Business.

Congratulations to Hank Kelley and John Flake for making the Arkansas Business 2014 Power List. The Arkansas Business Power List debuted in 2006 and is updated in the pages of Arkansas Business every three years. It is a useful compendium of the people who are running the largest business, professional and nonprofit entities in the state. Search the Power List by industry category and read profiles to learn about the most powerful people in Arkansas.

Hank Kelley has helped amass and oversees more than 5.2 million SF of commercial space, one of the largest commercial property portfolios in Arkansas.

Perhaps his most recognized works are the tech-related developments for Acxiom and Arkansas Systems in west Little Rock. He became a 2012 member of the Counselors of Real Estate, a professionally prestigious invite.

Kelley started his climb with appraising work followed by an associate partnership at Barnes Quinn Flake & Anderson.

To view Hank Kelley’s full profile on Arkansas Business.

John Flake made his reputation as a deal-maker with a string of apartments, office buildings, medical space and retail projects primarily in Arkansas.

He was a leading player in making the tallest office building in Arkansas happen: the 40-story Simmons Tower in downtown Little Rock, which opened in 1986 as Capitol Tower and later was called TCBY Tower and Metropolitan National Bank Building. He established Flake & Co. in 1979, the foundational firm of today’s Flake & Kelley Commercial.

To view John Flake’s full profile on Arkansas Business.

LITTLE ROCK (May 12, 2014) – Brooke Miller of Little Rock has been named a shareholder partner with Flake & Kelley Commercial.

Miller joined the company in 2007. As a member of Flake & Kelley Commercial’s transactional team, Brooke is responsible for traditional brokerage, leasing and tenant representation. She is a member of the team that represents national, regional and local retailers such as the TJX Companies, Inc. (T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and Marshalls), Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., LA Fitness, Panera Bread, Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt, Gigi’s Cupcakes and Indigo. Brooke is the leasing agent for two retail centers in Little Rock including Westchase Plaza (65,000 SF retail center) and Breckenridge Village (125,000 SF retail center).

Miller is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She is a ChainLinks Retail Advisor, the largest retail only real estate service provider in North America. She is active in the Little Rock community serving on the Board of Directors of the Little Rock Realtors Association and the Xceligent Retail Advisory Board. She is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), a sustaining member of the Twentieth Century Club and a previous member of the Hope Lodge Board of Directors. Prior to Flake & Kelley, Brooke owned and operated Companions, a successful women’s clothing boutique in west Little Rock, which she sold in 2006.

About Flake & Kelley Commercial
Founded in 1979, Flake & Kelley Commercial has a vast knowledge and an extensive network of industry connections that facilitate virtually any commercial real estate request. This background, coupled with a staff that features expertise not only in real estate management and development but also in law, accounting and other relevant disciplines, makes Flake & Kelley Commercial an invaluable partner for today’s business.

The opening of CARTI’s $90 million cancer center in the fall of 2015 can’t come soon enough for CARTI President and CEO Jan Burford.

“We’re getting more patients,” Burford recently said in her office in Baptist Health’s Higginbotham Building in Little Rock. “The baby boomers are entering their peak cancer years. The volume is going to go up for everyone.”

In December 2011, the nonprofit CARTI was treating about 3,000 patients a year. CARTI then began adding doctor groups, and it is now seeing about 20,000 patients annually, Burford said.

But seeing more patients is not necessarily good for CARTI’s financial health, Burford said.

About half of CARTI’s patients are on Medicare, the federal health care insurance program view for people 65 and older and for the disabled. Medicare’s reimbursement for cancer treatment is less than the cost to provide the service, she said. The reimbursement rate depends on what cancer is being treated.

“It’s pretty devastating,” she said of the reimbursement rates. “Unfortunately, when Medicare is paying you less than cost, it’s not as if you can make up the difference on volume.”

In addition, CARTI is still dealing with the effects of the federal budget sequestration. Burford said CARTI missed out on about $1 million in 2013 as a result of sequestration and the same amount is projected for this year.

“Every time they come up with a cut, we have to decide how we adjust to that,” Burford said. “We’re still figuring out how to cope with that.”

And she’s not sure how the Affordable Care Act will affect CARTI. “We’re caught up in health care reform just like everybody else,” Burford said.

The earlier a cancer is detected, the cheaper it is to treat. Some chemotherapy drugs cost as much as $50,000, she said. With improved cancer treatment, however, more people have survived cancer only to be diagnosed with a second and third cancer, Burford said.

For the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2012,CARTI had net income of $16.6 million on net patient revenue of $85 million, according to its most recent IRS Form 990. For the year that ended in June 2011, CARTI had a net income of $8 million on net patient revenue of $41.2 million.

The Center
The new 170,000-SF cancer center is expected to slash CARTI’s expenses. Burford said she didn’t know exactly how much CARTI is expected to save when all of its doctors’ offices and support staff are under one roof in west Little Rock. It currently has 26 physicians and about 470 employees.

The savings from reducing expenses will be spent on more support services for patients, she said.

CARTI currently is renting 100,000 SF. For the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2012, CARTI spent $2 million on land and building leases, which was up 45 percent from the previous year, according to its Form 990.

The cancer center also will make it easier for patients who now have to travel across Little Rock to see different CARTI doctors for treatments.

The cancer center will offer medical, surgical and radiation oncology, diagnostic radiology and hematology services.

CARTI tried to design the building to be as “patient centered” as possible, Burford said. The four-story building will have five main entrances so patients can get inside the building as quickly as possible, she said.

To view the full article by Arkansas Business.