# 2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority No-Records Response On 2026-05-22, the Little Rock Port Authority responded to the data-center FOIA request for AVAIO / Project Leo records — disclaiming any involvement in the project, stating it holds no responsive records, and naming the parties that did work the project: the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce and AEDC. ## Sources This is a FOIA-correspondence event; its record lives in Gmail, not in `raw/`. - FOIA request and response, 2026-05-22 ([thread](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/19e50690fc4b70d2)). ## What happened [[Joshua Dunlap]] filed an Arkansas FOIA request to the Little Rock Port Authority on 2026-05-22 for land, PILOT, bond-financing, board, and correspondence records on the AVAIO / Project Leo data center. Executive Director [[Bryan Day]] replied within minutes: *"the Little Rock Port Authority had nothing to do with the AVAIO project. There are no records, deeds, maps, emails, etc. related to that project. That project was worked by the LR Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission."* ## Significance A no-records finding — but an investigatively decisive one. It **disconfirms** the working hypothesis recorded in the [[Little Rock Port Authority]] page and the [[2026-05 Pulaski County Assessor No-Records Response]]: that the AVAIO / Project Leo site might be held by, or developed through, the Port Authority — a public-entity ownership structure parallel to the conveyance of the Project Pyramid site to the [[City of West Memphis]]. Per the Port's executive director, the Port Authority is not involved and holds nothing. The response redirects the Project Leo inquiry to the **[[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce]]** and the **Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC)**. With Pulaski County government also holding only zoning records ([[2026-05 Pulaski County Government FOIA Response]]), the pending AEDC FOIA becomes the key remaining custodian for the project's incentive and development records.