Maybe they’re sentimental souls whose warm memories of the bustling downtown of their youth drives their work today. Maybe they’re just well-connected homeys who saw a niche and capitalized on it. Or maybe they’re savvy civic-minded businessmen who saw a way to keep Little Rock on the map, give it an identity and some red-blooded, cosmopolitan airs, even if the path there was a tough one. Possibly all of that is true.
Whatever the reasons, Jimmy Moses and Rett Tucker — and their silent partners, both financial and political — deserve credit for a reoxygenated part of downtown Little Rock whose centerpiece architecture is not offices, but places to live.
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It might seem odd that a family-owned real estate company from Northern California would end up mounting one of the largest redevelopment projects in downtown Little Rock.
But take a closer look at Tower Investments, aka Stephen Marks, his wife and five adult children, and the project fits right in with the eclectic range of developments they’ve already tackled.
The company, based in Woodland, Calif., owns properties in 15 states coast to coast. Their holdings run the gamut — residential, retail, hotel, commercial, industrial, agricultural, even a nursing home in Georgia and a 1,200-acre island in the Mississippi River.
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