BENTONVILLE, Ark. – (By Cynthia Lescalleet, Realty News Report) – A 350-acre setting for Walmart’s new headquarters is under construction in northwest Arkansas with a sustainable design plan by a Houston architect featuring office buildings with mass timber elements regionally produced from Southern yellow pine.
The retailer’s new home office campus in Bentonville, Ark., will replace the company’s 20 properties scattered in the area.
The 25-building development for 15,000 workers will incorporate office, retail and a hotel, as well as parking structures, fitness center, amphitheater, childcare facilities — and a lake. About half of the project acreage is slated for green space, with seven miles of hike and bike trails, including elements of the Razorback Regional Greenway…