# 2025-12 Project Leo Site Construction Begins In late 2025, site work on the AVAIO "Project Leo" data center began: the old Vesta Addition plat inside the tract was revoked on 2025-11-13, and Pulaski County issued a commercial driveway permit on 2025-12-11, with construction starting the following day. ## Sources - [[Vesta Addition Reversion to Acreage]] — `LIT Vesta Addition Reversion 2025-11-17.pdf` (Revocation of Bill of Assurance, executed 2025-11-13). - [[Project Leo Engineering and Environmental Permits]] — `ARNETT CONST. DRIVEWAY PERMIT.pdf` (Pulaski County Driveway Permit No. 1758, issued 2025-12-11). ## What happened On 2025-11-13 [[Arnett Construction Company]], as fee owner, executed a Revocation of Bill of Assurance dissolving the 1912 Vesta Addition plat inside the site — closing out the last of the conditions on the county's [[2024-12 Pulaski County Conditionally Approves the Project Leo Site Plan|conditional approval]]. On 2025-12-11 the Pulaski County Road and Bridge Department issued Driveway Permit No. 1758 to Ted Arnett of Arnett Construction for two 24-inch concrete culverts on 145th Street, marked "COMMERCIAL," with an approximate construction start date of 2025-12-10. The construction stormwater plan, finalized in early 2026, describes the work then underway as clearing, grubbing, and mass grading across 129 disturbed acres. ## Significance By the end of 2025, Project Leo had moved from paper review to physical construction. The sequence — plat revocation, then driveway permit, then grading — shows the county's permitting conditions being closed out one by one, and confirms that the data center is being built, not merely proposed.