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Article: Bentonville Plaza only fancy compared to neighbor.
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- June 21, 2004
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IN MOST CITIES, BENTONVILLE Plaza would be considered an average building. But in the town Sam Walton built, it's a nine-story skyscraper towering over the squat and austere headquarters of the world's largest company.
"This is nothing more than a red brick office building," said Tommy Van Zandt, division partner with Irwin & Saviers Co. of Little Rock, the real estate broker working to lease the 261,000-SF structure.
"In any other market, this building would be very standard," Van Zandt said. "Nobody would pay any attention to it. There's no granite on it and no reflective glass ... It's got terrazzo floors. Terrazzo floors are in every post office ...