REALIZING A VISION FOR ARGENTA
Roger Coburn Jr. and Fletcher Hanson talk downtown North Little Rock.
RENDERING BY TAGGART ARCHITECTS
BY KATHERINE WYRICK
6th + Olive Development, Argenta.
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n 2021, local developer Roger Coburn Jr. and co-developer Fletcher Hanson — real estate adviser and principal at Moses Tucker Partners — ushered in a new phase of development in North Little Rock. Their three high-end residential neighborhood projects set into motion a revitalization of a long dormant section northeast of Argenta. Coburn and Hanson now have plans in the works for 40 lots — some as large as 10 acres — near the north end of the Clinton Presidential Park Bridge, less than a mile from their residential projects. Scheduled to begin in 2023, it’s an area rife with possibility; one idea circulating involves a 3-acre stretch along the River Trail that has the potential to be a mixed-use project with some cyclingcentric amenities. Though it remains to be seen, Coburn and Hanson’s recent developments in the area suggest that whatever is 40 | BLOCK, STREET & BUILDING VOLUME 8 | 2022
planned, it will be designed with the community in mind. When you’ve amassed so much property in one neighborhood, you have the opportunity to fundamentally change the DNA of the place. As your projects move forward, what would you like Argenta to be known for? Argenta has a DNA of its own, which is what attracted our attention and investment in the area. If anything, we are looking to enhance the existing DNA while expanding Argenta as a whole. After seeing the first three projects you announced, it looks like you two are trying to test different levels of density and price point. Is this a mix that you see continuing, both single family and varied size/density multifamily?
