We will highlight some of the changes taking place and are about to take place in Northwest Arkansas in our Summit Business Persons’ Luncheon today.  Tickets may still be available so if you live here, you ought to call and see right now.  Do not miss the Summit today.

We will hear about the development of Pinnacle Hills in our Summit.  Some of what will be shared, you know.  However, some of it that will be shared will be new information.  The Pinnacle Group, who is developing this special place of destination, will be bringing some light to all of us.  I have driven through the Pinnacle Promenade which is right now scheduled for opening on October 4.  This lifestyle shopping experience will open 100 stores on that day and will have an estimated 1 million square feet of retail.  The Pinnacle Promenade is on the East side of the interstate.  It will be very, very special.

With the Pinnacle Shoppes, the convention center, and others opening in the fall on the West side of the interstate, this region is changing.  Additional hotel rooms are being added by the convention center, and other buildings are being added now for business.  By the end of the year 1 million square feet of office space will be existent in this $1 billion development in its initial stages.  The new Mercy Health Center is being constructed right now on the East side of the interstate.  It will be an estimated $150 million complex.  Within months, you will begin to see the new interchange that will be constructed and added.  An estimated 10,000 people will work within the Pinnacle Hills region daily. 

Is it not just like God…right in the heart of this new Northwest Arkansas phenomenon is …The Church at Pinnacle Hills…the north campus of our church.  Construction is emerging and things are popping on that site.  I cannot wait until people from both of our campuses get to walk in it and, most of all, when Northwest Arkansas will get to experience it.  God is good.

If you have not noticed . . . Northwest Arkansas is changing!