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The Arkansas Capital Corporation Group
SMALL BUSINESS LENDING • PROJECT FINANCING
The Arkansas Capital
Corporation Group is
dedicated to improving
the lives of Arkansans by
providing capital and other
resources to entrepreneurs
and small businesses.
The Arkansas Capital Corporation
Group of companies empower
entrepreneurs by providing capital in
conjunction with community banks
to businesses through its capital
availability products and advocating
for entrepreneurs through capital,
educational, and technological
improvements. The Arkansas Capital
Corporation Group serves as the
platform from which new opportunities are launched. In addition to the
flagship company of Arkansas Capital
Corporation, there are seven affiliate
and partner companies, including,
Six Bridges Capital Corporation,
Arkansas Capital Relending Corporation, Arkansas Economic Acceleration
Foundation, Heartland Renaissance
Fund, Connect Arkansas, Pine State
Regional Center, and SouthWind
Analytics.
ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORPORATION
Arkansas Capital Corporation,
established in 1957, is the flagship
company of the Arkansas Capital
Corporation Group. Arkansas Capital
Corporation is a private, non-profit
lending corporation dedicated to
empowering entrepreneurs in Arkansas
through partnerships with the lending
community.
Arkansas
Capital
Corporation,
in partnership with community banks, provides
permanent, long-term financing for
business startups, expansions and
acquisitions. Risk mitigation for both
businesses and financial partners is
at the foundation of Arkansas Capital
Corporation’s existence and success.
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SIX BRIDGES CAPITAL CORPORATION
Six Bridges Capital Corporation, established in 1989, is
a private, non-profit, lending corporation specializing in
financing for small business-occupied commercial real
estate and equipment. As an economic development
tool, the SBA 504 loan program
through Six Bridges Capital
Corporation provides long-term,
permanent, fixed-rate financing
to new and expanding businesses that have the highest
probability of successfully creating new jobs for the state
of Arkansas. The program, often referred to as “small
business’ window to Wall Street,” is typically structured
with a 10 percent borrower investment, a 40 percent
subordinate SBA 504 loan and a 50 percent loan from a
financial institution.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORPORATION GROUP
ARKANSAS CAPITAL RELENDING CORPORATION
Arkansas Capital Relending Corporation, established
in 1998, is a private, non-profit
provider of loans to small
businesses under the United
States Department of Agriculture’s
Intermediary Relending Program.
Arkansas Capital Relending Corporation provides an economic finance tool for rural areas designed to assist with
financing businesses that create or retain jobs. A rural
area is any area with a population of 25,000 or less.
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ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORPORATION GROUP
ARKANSAS ECONOMIC ACCELERATION FOUNDATION
Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation,
established in 1999, is a private, 501(c)3 non-profit
corporation dedicated to education-based initiatives that
promote and foster the development of innovation and
entrepreneurship within Arkansas. With broad support
from the state’s business community, Arkansas Economic
Acceleration Foundation’s purpose is to nurture people
and ideas to generate future
Arkansas entrepreneurs. Arkansas
Economic Acceleration Foundation
established and now manages the
Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup, a collegiate
business plan competition, as well as business
plan competitions for grades 5th-8th via the Youth
Entrepreneur Showcase (Y.E.S) for Arkansas and
grades 9th-12th through the Youth Entrepreneur
Showcase 2.0 (Y.E.S. 2.0).
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ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORPORATION GROUP
HEARTLAND RENAISSANCE FUND
Heartland Renaissance Fund, established in 2002, is dedicated to stimulating economic activity in disadvantaged
areas in Arkansas through the use of
New Markets Tax Credits. Heartland
Renaissance Fund has received a total
CONNECT ARKANSAS
Connect Arkansas, established in 2007, is dedicated to
increasing high-speed Internet subscription and
improving and sustaining Internet adoption throughout
Arkansas. The Connect Arkansas Broadband Act was
signed into law on March 28, 2007, with the goal of
improving personal lives and
creating economic opportunity
for Arkansans. Act 604 of 2007
Connect Arkansas
states that Connect Arkansas’s
A PROJECT OF THE
mission is to “prepare the people ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORPORATION GROUP
and businesses of Arkansas to secure the economic,
educational, health, social, and other benefits available
via broadband use.” Connect Arkansas seeks to advance
that goal through community-based initiatives.
PINE STATE REGIONAL CENTER
Pine State Regional Center, LLC, was established in 2013
and is an approved Regional Center in compliance with
the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ EB-5
Immigrant Investment Program. Pine State will provide
financing to a variety of jobcreating projects, deploying
foreign investor capital into a
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ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORPORATION GROUP
range of businesses and
projects throughout Arkansas. Although it is a private
company, Pine State Regional Center works closely with
state and local economic development partners to create
jobs and serve as a catalyst for Arkansas’s economy.
SOUTHWIND ANALYTICS
SouthWind Analytics, established in 2013, is dedicated
to providing business and financial institutions with
geospatial intelligence for
placing capital in the
marketplace through
discovery of previously
unknown business
opportunities. SouthWind Analytics is able to work with
clients on a variety of Geographic Information Systems
consulting services ranging from the customization of
maps to drive time analysis, logistics network analysis
and digitizing analog maps. SouthWind Analytics also
offers custom economic impact analysis using the
IMPLAN economic modeling suite, web application
development and GIS consulting.
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200 River Market Avenue, Suite 400 | Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
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New Markets Tax Credit allocation of $200 million and
is working with private and public sector leaders to use
these credits to deploy low-cost capital to businesses
throughout Arkansas.
SINCE 1957
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