Elm Springs

My district specifically, District 13, it's very large, very rural.

It's the west side of Benton County, so I've got Cave Springs, the Benton County side of Springdale, Benton County side of Elm Springs.

Siloam, part of it, and then some of Gravett, some of Gentry, some of Decatur, some of Centerton, a little bit of Bentonville, all of Highfull.

It's real big.

If you're not familiar with 112, it's kind of a, it was the main highway before anything else was the main highway.

It went from Fayetteville to Bentonville and, you know, cuts into Johnson and Tawny Town and Springdale and Lowell and Elm Springs and Cave Springs.

It just brought you through all of northwest Arkansas.

And I grew up kind of halfway in there at Tawny Town.

And honestly, it's probably going to be my hometown.

Here, well, it's in Northwest Arkansas, but I live in a really small city called Elm Springs, Arkansas.

And so we're about to go through this transition period with major roads coming through.

Uh, we're gonna be kind of a focal point, and I would love to, to lead the development space in Elm Springs and with some mixed-use buildings with some, uh, commercial and residential.

So I would love to kind of develop and transition into being a developer that's moving outside of residential and adding in that mixed use, adding in that commercial space, and adding value to the people who live in the city that we live in, and making it, it spaces that people want to live and work at.

It's so cliché to say, and I think a lot of people wanna do it right now, but I think investing in your own hometown, you really know what people want.

You talk to people, uh, you understand their needs, their wants, and how they want it to look, right? Some old-timers want it to look a certain way, and they want, you know, that development to stay out of their backyard.

But someone said, "Either, either, uh, create the change or, or lead the change, or the change is gonna lead you," right? You have to lead it, and I would love to have those conversations, um, with my city and Forge a path forward in developing in Elm Springs.