# Little Rock Port Authority The Little Rock Port Authority, operating as the Port of Little Rock, is a public authority that owns and develops industrial property in southeast Little Rock along the Arkansas River. Its land is held by the [[City of Little Rock]] "for the use and benefit of" the Port Authority; the Port is "an instrumentality of the City of Little Rock" per the City Board's resolution language. Executive Director: [[Bryan Day]]. Board Chair: [[Clay McGeorge]] (2025). ## People - [[Bryan Day]] — Executive Director. - [[Clay McGeorge]] — Chair of the Board of Directors. ## Roles in this corpus - **Named in the 2026-05-19 Pulaski County Assessor FOIA request** as the reported site of an announced data-center project (request item 2). The early-2026 reporting that pointed toward "the Port Authority data-center" framing was responding to the project documented below. - **Disclaimed any involvement in the AVAIO / Project Leo project.** On 2026-05-22, in response to a direct FOIA request, Executive Director [[Bryan Day]] stated the Port Authority *"had nothing to do with the AVAIO project"* and holds no responsive records — see [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority No-Records Response]]. AVAIO / Project Leo is a Pulaski County data-center campus at 145th Street, far from the Port footprint. - **Host and Tier-1-documented seller of the [[Willowbend Capital, LLC|Willowbend Capital]] "Project Boar" data center.** The Willowbend / Google-reported project is sited at the Little Rock Port. On 2025-04-29 the Port Authority Board (Chair [[Clay McGeorge]], Recording Secretary [[Bryan Day]]) adopted [[Port Authority Land-Sale Resolution|Resolution 0429221]] authorizing Day to sell up to 400 acres of the "Ratliffe Property" to Willowbend Capital. On 2025-06-24 the [[City of Little Rock]], "for the use and benefit of" the Port, conveyed 383.52 acres to Willowbend Capital for $11,505,600.00 ([[Willowbend Capital Warranty Deed]]); the City netted $11,207,829.01 after broker, legal, and title-insurance costs ([[Willowbend Capital Closing Statement]]). On 2026-05-26 Bryan Day produced these records under Arkansas FOIA — see [[The Port of Little Rock Data Center]] and [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority Produces Project Boar Records]]. Day initially invoked § 25-19-105(b)(9)(A) over additional records but, in a clarifying response the same afternoon, characterized that language as boilerplate and stated that he holds no additional records in his possession on Google, Project Boar, or Willowbend, and no copy of the project NDA. The operative Port-side posture on this request is therefore: produced 5 documents; no additional records exist in Day's files. ## Notes [[Bryan Day]] affirmatively disclaimed the Port Authority's involvement in the **AVAIO / Project Leo** project — a separate, far larger campus in Pulaski County — and that disclaimer stands; per his response, AVAIO was worked by the [[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce]] and AEDC. The Port of Little Rock *is* the site of the **[[Willowbend Capital, LLC|Willowbend Capital]] / "Project Boar"** data center. The 2026-05-26 Bryan Day production resolves the prior public-record ambiguity (under which Day was reported to have "declined to comment" on Project Boar citing an NDA) by producing the Tier-1 conveyance, board-resolution, and survey records and clarifying that the NDA was signed not by the Port itself but by the [[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce]] on the Port's behalf. After follow-up, Day further clarified that the Port has no copy of the NDA and no additional Project-Boar / Willowbend / Google records in its files. The Port's documentary record on the project is therefore best read as: full Port-Board approval and conveyance records produced; the Chamber, not the Port, holds the NDA-scoped recruitment and pre-bid records. The Port's negotiating partner per the Port's own resolution language is the [[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce]] — *"the Little Rock Port Authority staff, in conjunction with [the] Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce has reviewed the Purchase Agreement"* ([[Port Authority Land-Sale Resolution]]). The Chamber's role on Project Boar is structurally parallel to its role on Project Leo per Day's earlier no-records response. The 2025-06-24 conveyance described the property as the Ratcliff family land north of Earl Lane and east of Harper Road, plus a tract of City of Little Rock land (Inst. No. 2025002232). The survey notes that "city annexation is pending" — the conveyed land is not yet within Little Rock city limits at the time of conveyance, though it is held by the City for the Port's benefit.