# Willowbend Capital, LLC Willowbend Capital, LLC is the developer of record for the "Project Boar" data center at the Port of Little Rock — "the Company" in the April 29, 2025 memorandum of understanding with the City of Little Rock and the "Grantee" on the June 25, 2025 special warranty deed conveying 383.52 acres of Port land to it. The Arkansas Secretary of State registry shows it is a Delaware shell limited liability company; news reporting identifies the principal behind it as Google. ## Corporate registration The Arkansas Secretary of State registry (primary public record, [Willowbend Capital LLC entity record](../../web%20archive/2026-05-22/sos-corp-search.ark.org/willowbend-capital-llc-sos-record.md)) shows: - A **Delaware limited liability company**, registered to transact business in Arkansas as a Foreign LLC on **2025-02-11** (filing # 811535247; status Good Standing). - Registered agent **Corporation Service Company** (300 S. Spring St., Suite 900, Little Rock); the Delaware address is a private mailbox ("PMB 160," 2801 Centerville Road, Wilmington). No principal place of business or parent disclosed. - Organizer and Manager of record: **[[Michael Montfort]]**. Willowbend Capital is the **twin of [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]]**, the Conway data-center developer: both are Delaware LLCs registered in Arkansas the same day (2025-02-11), with the same registered agent, the same Delaware private-mailbox address, the same organizer, and near-consecutive filing numbers (Forgelight 811535239, Willowbend 811535247). ## Roles in this corpus - **Developer / MOU counterparty.** The April 29, 2025 MOU describes Willowbend Capital as "evaluating the City of Little Rock ... for a site" for "an approximately 300,000 square foot data center facility," with an anticipated investment of "approximately $1,000,000,000," "approximately 50 new high-quality jobs," and expansion to additional facilities — in exchange for a net 65% property-tax abatement for 30 years and against a $300,000/year "City Enrichment Investment" (primary public record, [Little Rock resolution and MOU](../../web%20archive/2026-05-22/www.littlerock.gov/willowbend-capital-mou.md)). The Little Rock Board of Directors authorized the MOU by resolution on 2025-04-29. - **Grantee on the Tier-1 deed.** On 2025-06-24 Willowbend Capital, LLC took 383.52 acres of Port of Little Rock land at $11,505,600.00 by Special Warranty Deed from the City of Little Rock "for the use and benefit of" the Port Authority — recorded the next day as Pulaski County Inst. # 2025033561. See [[Willowbend Capital Warranty Deed]] and [[Willowbend Capital Closing Statement]]. Buyer mailing address on the DFA Affidavit: *"5111 JB Hunt Dr Ste 300, Rogers AR 72758"* — the [[Kutak Rock LLP]] Rogers office. - **Authorized Signatory at closing.** The ALTA Settlement Statement shows [[Stuart C Hindmarsh]] of [[Kutak Rock LLP]] — not [[Michael Montfort]] — signing for Willowbend Capital as "Authorized Signatory" ([[Willowbend Capital Closing Statement]]). - **Buyer of record on the survey.** The 2025-06-19 ALTA/NSPS boundary survey by [[Pickering Firm]], prepared for [[EMH&T]], is certified to Chicago Title Insurance Company, the Little Rock Port Authority, Willowbend Capital, LLC, and EMH&T ([[Project Boar Site Survey]]). ## People - [[Michael Montfort]] — organizer / manager of record per the Arkansas SoS registry. - [[Stuart C Hindmarsh]] — Kutak Rock LLP attorney; Authorized Signatory at the 2025-06-24 closing. ## Notes The MOU names only "Willowbend Capital LLC"; the principal behind it is identified only through Tier-3 reporting plus, as of 2026-05-26, two corroborating channels that may or may not be dispositive. *Data Center Dynamics*, relaying reporting by the *Arkansas Democrat-Gazette* (which cited two unnamed sources), reported that the Port of Little Rock data center is Google's (web research 2026-05-22, [DCD report](../../web%20archive/2026-05-22/www.datacenterdynamics.com/google-behind-1bn-data-center-in-little-rock-arkansas-report.md)). Per [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] and [[D003 Synthesis]] (2026-05-24, verdict: `resolved-via-D003`), the wiki preserves the *DCD/ADG* reporting but frames it as **Tier-3-uncorroborated** rather than "reportedly Google's." The corpus's *confirmed* Google identification at [[Altitude Capital, LLC]] / West Memphis rested on three independent Tier-1 channels (deed chain, water-use registration naming "Google Data Center," sworn EAL CEO testimony, APSC Order findings). As of the [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority Produces Project Boar Records|2026-05-26 Bryan Day production]] the Willowbend record has acquired **one Tier-1 corroborating channel**: - **Shared counsel with confirmed-Google Project Pyramid.** The Project Boar deed was prepared by and the Project Pyramid GROOT LLC contact address is the same Kutak Rock LLP attorney ([[Stuart C Hindmarsh]]) at the same Rogers, Arkansas office (5111 W. JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300). Per [[Kutak Rock LLP]], this is a Tier-1 data point favoring a common-principal reading, but its weight depends on whether Kutak Rock's Rogers office is a regional data-center transactional practice (alternative reading: same firm, unrelated clients). The shared-counsel channel — combined with the shared-organizer channel ([[Michael Montfort]] across both [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] and Willowbend) — moves the evidentiary base from "zero Tier-1 channels" to "two Tier-1 channels of correspondence-based circumstantial evidence." Per D003's framework this does not yet meet the three-channel standard for promoting the principal identification, and the wiki therefore continues to frame the Google attribution as Tier-3-uncorroborated. A follow-on dialectic on T003 is warranted if a third Tier-1 channel surfaces (a permitted-facility filing naming Google as operator, an SEC filing or Form D naming a Google-affiliated entity at the Port site, or a definitive Chamber FOIA disclosure). [[Bryan Day]]'s 2026-05-26 afternoon clarifying response — *"there is nothing in my files related to Google other than what I have shared with you"* — used the project name "Google" in coordinate position with "Project Boar" and "Willowbend." His framing tracks the original FOIA request's *"including any Google entity"* language; the wiki therefore reads this as responsive framing rather than an independent Tier-1 attribution by the Port executive director. None of the five produced documents in [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority Produces Project Boar Records|the Port's production]] names Google.