This attractive, centrally located, vintage warehouse is ready for a higher use. About half of it was built in 1946 for the Arkansas Minnow Box company. That was sold to Arkansas Sheet metal in 1952, which expanded the place and owned it for the next seventy years. After a deep cleaning and some cosmetic upgrading, it is poised to become Little Rock's next edgy destination.
The current owner was able to acquire two adjacent lots and a nearby corner lot. This now lets us offer a classic industrial re-use project, with room for sixty parking spaces, plus a 40x140 square foot garden and 7463 square feet of evocative indoor space, including soaring, grand areas and two practical heated and cooled offices with reception, kitchen area, storage and half bath.
Trackside West is looking for a new owner to turn this truly unique property into – what? Good uses would include a brewery/restaurant/cafe with a great summer garden, an entertainment or event venue, artist and creator space, condos, a hip church – you decide. Permissive I-2 zoning allows a wide range of potential uses. The space has wood planked ceilings, most of them 16 feet high, the rest around 10 feet high. It has original metal casement windows, which were cleaned up and re-glazed with quarter inch glass. It is right on the active Union Pacific tracks, feet from the planned bike path to the riverfront and Hot Springs. It is just off the Woodrow exit of 630, on a street that ends at the tracks, and has recently seen substantial investment in new and renovated housing.
The area's next few decades will be dynamic, as Little Rock's creative class retreats from the bland burbs and turns forgotten into cool. The property's great bones, ample parking and location steps from the Stifft Station neighborhood should position it well to attract the public that now visits the Rail Yard and the Scrap Yard, or to become a cultural destination like the nearby Whitewater, but in a remarkable space.
Come, check the place out and see it's potential. Let your imagination go. Make it happen.
Current taxes are $1378 annually. The property would be sold "as is". Title to the building and adjacent lot are insurable, but vacant lots will be sold with quitclaim deeds, as two were purchased following State Lands sales, and one from a group of heirs, and title has not been quieted. Red tagged home on side lot will be razed before sale.
For more information or to see the place, write Paul Dodds at centralhistoric@gmail.com or call at 501 791 4135.