On June 8, a modest group showed up at the Auditorium for a workshop on the local retail landscape presented by representatives of Winrock International, a nonprofit organization that focuses on social, agricultural and environmental issues around the world. WI is part of the Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust established by the former governor of Arkansas.
Mayor Butch Berry opened by announcing that Winrock staff, in consultation with the Mayor’s Task Force on Economic Development, had compiled data from several sources to prepare an initial look at retail in Eureka Springs.