The site has an active trail running around it for mountain biking, running, and hiking! The Bobcat Trail. Bounded by farmland to the north, east and west and State Highway 27 to the south. 2161 S. Highway 27, Marshall, AR 72650

The site is owned by Searcy County Industrial Development Corporation.
Our Target Industries are: Industrial Manufacturing, Distribution, Outdoor Products, Assembly, Agriculture, Wood Products, Cycling, Garment Industry, Food Industry, Meat Processing, Gun Industry, and Aviation. Sales price and lease price could be negotiable.

Lots of options here. Marshall is the community an industry would want to stay and grow in! Excellent workers! Fabulous airport! Great quality of life! Call or message for a site visit! 8704482557.

Our Target Industries are: Aviation, Industrial Manufacturing, Distribution, Outdoor Products, Assembly, Agriculture, Wood Products, Cycling, Garment Industry, Food Industry, Meat Processing, and the Gun Industry.

Searcy County is the ONLY rural county in Arkansas that had net positive migration for both the 2010-2019 and 2020-2021 time frames, according to Communities Unlimited! Meaning more people moved into Searcy County during those time periods than moved out! Come find out why people want to live in Searcy County!

Searcy County is Certified as an ACT® Work Ready Community! The 1st to achieve this status in Northcentral Arkansas! Marshall High School is offering the ACT Work Keys that produces a Career Readiness Certificate for the completing student. The Career Readiness Certificate helps employers find workers with the right skills, reduces turnover rate, and helps workers get matched the jobs that fit their skills!

Marshall High School, grades 7 - 12, rated a Five Star School by SchoolDigger ranking 11 of 291 Arkansas High Schools for 2025! Top 4% in Arkansas! The school also has a low student-teacher ratio! The Searcy County School District placed 28th in Arkansas out of 250 school districts for 2025 by SchoolDigger! That's Top 11% in Arkansas! Marshall Elementary School, K-3, ranked 80 of 495 Arkansas Elementary Schools in 2025! Top 16%! Well done!

Searcy County ranks Top 3%, #80 of 2,766 counties in America with lowest cost of living and #12 in Arkansas! Searcy County ranks Top 11%, #288 of 2,751 in America in best counties for retirees, #13 in Arkansas, according to the 2024 Niche rankings!

Excellent Healthcare from multiple clinics to include the Administrative Headquarters of regional provider Boston Mountain Rural Health Center, Inc. Boston Mountain Rural Health Center | Comprehensive Medical Care (bmrhc.net) Boston Mountain Rural Health Center, Inc. earned six HRSA Community Health Quality Recognition Badges! The prestigious Gold Health Center Quality Leader award, placing it in the top 10 percent of health centers nationwide! Also named a National Quality Leader in: Behavioral Health, Diabetes Health, Heart Health, Additional honors include: Advancing Health IT for Quality, Improving Health Care Access! They've outperformed state and national benchmarks in 6 of 7 quality measures, with outstanding preventive care, chronic disease management, and screening rates—cementing their place among the nation’s top-performing health centers.

Searcy County is a HUBZone! A historically underutilized business zone! The government limits competition for certain contracts to businesses in historically underutilized business zones. It also gives preferential consideration to those businesses in full and open competition. Joining the HUBZone program makes your business eligible to compete for the program’s set-aside contracts. HUBZone-certified businesses also get a 10% price evaluation preference in full and open contract competitions. The HUBZone program fuels small business growth in historically underutilized business zones with a goal of awarding at least 3% of federal contract dollars to HUBZone-certified companies each year.
To qualify for the HUBZone program, your business must:
Be a small business according to SBA size standards
Be at least 51% owned and controlled by U.S. citizens, a Community Development Corporation, an agricultural cooperative, an Alaska Native corporation, a Native Hawaiian organization, or an Indian tribe.
Have its principal office located in a HUBZone and 35% of your businesses employees must live in a HUBZone. HUBZone program | U.S. Small Business Administration
Available commercial and retail properties here: Available Sites | Searcy County Chamber of Commerce (searcycountyarkansas.org) Tier Four County with Best Arkansas Incentives!

Lots of water availability from the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority that supplies water from Bull Shoals Lake!

The 2024 Average Daily Traffic Count Estimate for Searcy County showed 8,100 in the City of Marshall along US Highway 65.

Climate matters! See chart below. A Northcentral Arkansas city came in with the coolest average temperature in Arkansas for 2024! (National Weather Service) Make Searcy County and Northcentral Arkansas the locations to Live, and to do business! Locate your business here! https://www.weather.gov/lzk/2024.htm

The Buffalo National River is named as one of the "Best Scenic River Kayaking in USA!" Searcy County is the Heart of the Buffalo National River! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A4AEKsNn5/

Gilbert/Marshall/St. Joe was voted a Top 10 Arkansas Adventure Town by Arkansas Outside Magazine! Top Ten Arkansas Adventure Towns | Arkansas Outside

Growing area! Searcy County has had a 22% increase in 911 addresses from March 2015 of 5,830 to 7,098 as of 4 Aug 2025! These include listings for residential, vacation homes, businesses, and agriculture.

Our employees rank high in many businesses. In Marshall, Arkansas our Sonic is a Five-time National Top 12 finalist of approximately 3,000 Sonics nationwide! Top 50 Finalist in 2025! Top-level leadership and the ability to source and train great employees locally!

Marshall High School EAST is one of only 28 schools in Arkansas to achieve Level One Program of Influence distinction! Outstanding! There are more than 200 EAST Labs in Arkansas. The Environmental and Spatial Technologies (EAST) Initiative offers students and teachers professional technology and software for use in a loosely-structured, self-driven environment.

Marshall High School and St. Joe School middle schools both scored Top 8% in Arkansas in the latest US News & World Report Rankings! Marshall was 46th and St. Joe 47th out of 617 Arkansas Middle Schools! Marshall Elementary School also scored Top 12% in Arkansas in the US News & World Report rankings of Arkansas Elementary Schools! Marshall ranked 84 of 728 elementary schools in Arkansas! Super school!

Marshall High School is an Arkansas School of Innovation! https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/517/mhs_designated_as_a_school_of_innovation_soi.pdf Marshall High School-Home of the Bobcats also offers Civil Air Patrol for students! Students pay $60 which includes uniform, test flights, STEM activities, and much more!

Great airfield serving Marshall! Searcy County “Buffalo River” Airport-4A5, a 4000x75 ft lighted runway, 24hr self-serve fuel, tie-downs, very nice pilot lounge, courtesy car, and overnight hangar space as available. https://www.facebook.com/groups/476351403301956

Attention Film Industry! Not only is Searcy County full of gorgeous Ozarks' scenery, quaint towns, and historic buildings, it also has a special Tax Incentive due to its economic status! This can help your production stay "on budget!" Our last movie production was Papaw Land Movie. Call the chamber of commerce for more information: 8704482557. Law boosting incentives for Arkansas film industry goes into effect today - Arkansas Times (arktimes.com)

The Greater Searcy County Chamber of Commerce believes that close to half the Searcy County workforce commutes outside the county to work, some at a considerable distance. We desire to employ more of them IN the county!

Ample local trucking! Also supported by Fed Ex Freight and Fed Ex Ground!

Very fast business and residential internet available from Kinetic Windstream, Petit Jean Fiber, and Ritter Communications! Much of the county has fiber-to-the-home!

Local contract work is available to the industry! Special Services Learning Center of Marshall is a wonderful program for adults with developmental disabilities! Each center includes a workshop performing various contract work. In order to provide pre-vocational training for their consumers, they procure contract work from a variety of businesses and individuals. Jobs completed to the contractor's specifications and on the contractor's timeline. Special Services' staff conducts time studies in order to determine a piece rate for each task involved in order to provide a fair price for contracted work. They also have trucks available for transporting materials and products. The benefit to their consumers is immense, giving them an opportunity to learn new job skills and a means to contribute! Please call 870-448-2046.

Excellent highway system! US Highway 65 runs through Searcy County as part of 966 miles from Louisiana to Minnesota!

Major travel route to Branson, Missouri! Two hours and 40 minutes to Wal-Mart Headquarters!

The City of Leslie was named an Arkansas Business Trendsetter City! Leslie won Honorable Mention in the Education/Workforce Development category for the Leslie Cyber Center! Leslie was also awarded the Municipal League's highest award, the Don A Zimmerman Pinnacle Award! The Forge Institute began teaching a 7-week IT/Cyber Fundamentals course in 2022! The grant also funds a 14-week Cyber Training Bootcamp - free to qualified applicants from Searcy County!

The North Arkansas Transportation Service (NATS) is a rural non-profit transportation company that can set up transportation for employees of Searcy County businesses!

The North Central Career Center in Leslie offers career training in Auto Technology, Construction Trades, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), and Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN). Building tomorrow's workforce today in Searcy County! Career Center in Leslie: https://www.scsd.info/9985

Very streamlined, low-cost, and easy construction permit process!

Searcy County is home to almost 48 miles of the Buffalo National River. Marshall is the largest town in the Buffalo River Watershed. 1,686,348 recreation visits to the Buffalo National River in 2024! The 2nd highest total in Buffalo National River history! The Most Floated Section of the Buffalo National River is in Searcy County!

Searcy County is a wonderful Ozark Mountain place to live!

Powerful chamber of commerce, 34th largest in Arkansas, that helps chamber members and the local economy!