# 2024-02 Coushatta Management Files an Earlier 145th Street Data-Center Site Plan Surfaced by the 2026-06-02 [[development-applications-2026-06-02/_overview|Pulaski County Planning & Development production]]: **before [[AVAIO Digital Partners|AVAIO]]'s September 2024 hyperscale filing, the 145th Street site already had a data-center site plan.** [[Coushatta Management, LLC]] (engineer [[Harbor Environmental]]) submitted a site plan on 2024-01-24 for a single **60,000-square-foot building** at the 1700 block of 145th Street, and Pulaski County Planning & Development **administratively approved it on 2024-02-23** ("Coushatta Management Data Center Site Plan," PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL MEETING DATE: N/A). ## Sources - [[Coushatta Management 145th Street Data Center Site Plan]] — the cover letter, county Notice of Site Plan Review (2-27-24), checklist, and comment-response correspondence. ## What happened [[Harbor Environmental]]'s Andrew Rike, P.E., submitted the site plan "on behalf of the owner, Coushatta Management" for a 60,000 SF building served by Central Arkansas Water and the 145th Street Sewer & Water Improvement District 345, with a Quail Creek Volunteer Fire Department approval letter — the same utility/fire framework AVAIO would later use. After a routine staff/county-engineer comment exchange, [[Jim Cranor]] recorded the review "Completed" with a Planning Dept approval date of 2-23-24. ## Significance - **The 145th Street site was being advanced as a (smaller) data center months before AVAIO surfaced.** Whether Coushatta Management was the landowner/assembler, an AVAIO predecessor, or an unrelated party is **not established** by the record (see the restraint note on [[Coushatta Management, LLC]]). - **It is a second example of a data center clearing Pulaski County with no public process** — administrative staff approval, no planning board, no hearing — reinforcing [[Pulaski County Zoning and Land-Use Authority]] and the [[Site plan review]] thesis that later drove the [[2026-05 Pulaski County Quorum Court Refers Five Data-Center Measures to Planning Board|Quorum Court]] response.