# Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce is the metropolitan-area chamber of commerce for central Arkansas. In this corpus the Chamber is the corpus's single highest-value uncovered Tier-1 custodian: it is anchored as the project NDA holder on the Port-of-Little-Rock data-center project and was identified by the Port Authority's executive director as one of two parties that "worked" the AVAIO / Project Leo project. ## Roles in this corpus - **Named by [[Bryan Day]], Executive Director of the [[Little Rock Port Authority]], as a party that handled the AVAIO / Project Leo project**: *"That project was worked by the LR Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission"* — see [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority No-Records Response]]. - **Anchored as joint reviewer of the Willowbend Capital Purchase Agreement.** Port Authority Board Resolution 0429221 (2025-04-29) recites: *"the Little Rock Port Authority staff, in conjunction with [the] Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce has reviewed the Purchase Agreement and believe its terms to be favorable for the Little Rock Port Authority"* ([[Port Authority Land-Sale Resolution]]). This places the Chamber inside the transaction's review process, not merely at its periphery. - **NDA-of-record holder for Project Boar / Willowbend Capital.** In his 2026-05-26 FOIA-production cover note, Day stated: *"I did not sign an NDA for this particular project; the chamber did on our behalf"* — making the Chamber the formal nondisclosure counterparty on the project. See [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority Produces Project Boar Records]]. ## Notes The Chamber is now anchored to **both Pulaski County hyperscale data-center projects** in this corpus: AVAIO / Project Leo (per Day's 2026-05-22 statement) and Willowbend / Project Boar (per the 2025-04-29 Port resolution and Day's 2026-05-26 admission). The Chamber's project file is therefore the corpus's single highest-value uncovered Tier-1 source — particularly because the (b)(9)(A) records the Port withheld are likely held at the Chamber under a different exposure profile. ### Arkansas FOIA reach The Arkansas FOIA reaches private organizations "wholly or partially supported by public funds or expending public funds" (Ark. Code § 25-19-103). Chambers conducting publicly-funded economic-development recruitment routinely fall within this reach where the recruitment activity is itself the publicly-funded work. The Chamber's reviewer role on the Port Authority's Purchase Agreement is publicly-funded economic-development work on its face — the Port Authority is a public-authority instrumentality, and the Chamber's coordination role inside the transaction's review process is part of that public-authority transaction. A FOIA to the Chamber should anticipate but resist a private-entity-objection response. > [!web-research-unresolved] Establish the Chamber's specific public-funding sources (City of Little Rock economic-development line item; Pulaski County economic-development line item; State of Arkansas / AEDC pass-through) and the percentage of Chamber operating budget those represent, to anchor the § 25-19-103 reach analysis. A follow-on Arkansas FOIA to the Chamber on AVAIO / Project Leo and Willowbend / Project Boar records was filed by email on 2026-05-26 (`[email protected]`), with a copy of the requester's driver's license attached — see [[2026-05 Chamber of Commerce FOIA Filed]]. The [[Bryan Day]] production is its direct trigger; the § 25-19-105(e) three-business-day window runs to 2026-05-29.