# City of Little Rock The City of Little Rock is the municipal government of Arkansas's capital city. In this corpus it appears as the formal owner and grantor of the Port-of-Little-Rock data-center site: the [[Little Rock Port Authority]] is "an instrumentality of the City of Little Rock," and the deed conveying the Project Boar site to [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] runs in the name of "The City of Little Rock, Arkansas for the use and benefit of the Little Rock Port Authority." ## People - [[Frank Scott Jr]] — Mayor; signed the 2025-06-24 warranty deed and closing statement as grantor. - Allison Segars — City Clerk; co-executed the warranty deed (also rendered "Allison Seagar" on the draft City resolution). - Thomas M. Carpenter — City Attorney; counsel of record on the City resolution authorizing the conveyance. ## Roles in this corpus - **Grantor of the Project Boar site.** On 2025-06-24 the City — acting "for the use and benefit of the Little Rock Port Authority" — conveyed 383.52 acres in Pulaski County to [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] for $11,505,600.00, executed by Mayor Scott and City Clerk Segars and recorded the next day as Pulaski County Instrument # 2025033561. See [[Willowbend Capital Warranty Deed]] and [[Willowbend Capital Closing Statement]]. - **MOU counterparty.** The City Board of Directors approved the project memorandum of understanding with Willowbend Capital by resolution on 2025-04-29 — see [[The Port of Little Rock Data Center]] and the [Little Rock resolution and MOU](../../web%20archive/2026-05-22/www.littlerock.gov/willowbend-capital-mou.md). - **Deed-authorizing resolution.** A separate City Board resolution authorized the Mayor and City Clerk to execute the special warranty deed, citing Ark. Code Ann. § 14-54-302 — see [[City of Little Rock Willowbend Resolution]]. (The Port-authority-produced copy of the resolution is unnumbered and undated — a draft template; the executed City resolution is referenced in the deed's recitals but the executed text is not in the production.) - **Joint addressee of the data-center FOIA.** A 2026-05-22 Arkansas FOIA request to the City (`[email protected]`) on Willowbend / Project Boar records remains unanswered as of 2026-05-26 (statutory deadline 2026-05-28). - **Project Leo.** The City of Little Rock is **not** the site jurisdiction for the AVAIO / Project Leo data center — that site lies in unincorporated Pulaski County, not within the City limits (the corpus first established this via [[AVAIO Project Leo Site Plan and County Review]]). ## Notes The City's role is structurally distinct from the Port Authority's: the City holds legal title to Port property, but the Port Authority Board negotiates and approves transactions under a delegated framework. The April 29, 2025 Port Authority resolution (see [[Port Authority Land-Sale Resolution]]) authorizes the Executive Director to "submit this property disposition to the City of Little Rock Board of Directors for final approval" — the City's role at that stage is ratification.