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Best-performing Cities: Northwest Arkansas

The Milken Institute recently released their Best-Performing Cities 2023 Report. The Index, published annually since 1999, reflects cities’ effectiveness at leveraging their resources to promote economic growth and provide their residents with access to the essential services and infrastructure needed for success, the institute says. Its components include job creation, wage growth, and the high-tech sector’s output growth. Since 2021, the Index also includes measures of housing affordability and broadband access that reflect access to economic opportunities of cities’ residents.

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Rambling Vanes, New Art Installation at Fayetteville's Lower Ramble

Verdant Studio's director of creative placemaking and artist lead, Dayton Castleman, created a new art installation for the  City of Fayetteville at the  Lower Ramble, an outdoor space in the Fay Jones Woods below the Fayetteville Public Library. This area gets a substantial amount of traffic from walkers and bike riders accessing this area for recreation or passing through on their way to the City of Fayetteville Bike Trail for transportation. " The Ramble is characterized as: a full embrace of the journey…not in a hurry to get from point A to point B, but rather, open to possibility…the concept falls nicely in sync with the cadence of a walk or a bike ride, spontaneous conversation, outdoor installations and gathering spaces," writes the city of Fayetteville, in reference to the recent re-naming of this area.
 
The installation, Rambling Vanes,  is a kinetic sculptural installation suspended within the canopy overlook ellipse. Steel cables affixed to the bridge structure create a simple geometric lattice form supporting 14 minimal wind vanes that orient in unison to the current wind direction.
 
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