# Crittenden County Assessor — Project Pyramid Production (2026-05-21) The first FOIA production of the Arkansas data-center investigation: the Crittenden County Assessor's Office response to a request for assessment and PILOT records on the Google / "Project Pyramid" data-center site at Bollinger Road, West Memphis. Two PDFs were produced — a multi-parcel property record card and the county's 2025 agricultural land-value schedule. Together they document a ~1,117-acre land assembly, its ownership chain, and the beginning of its conversion from farmland to a commercial data-center site. ## What's inside - [[Project Pyramid Site Property Record Card]] — `PRC.pdf`, 18 pages: 2026 property record cards for seven contiguous parcels totaling ~1,117 acres. - [[Crittenden County 2025 Agricultural Land Values]] — `2025 Agri Values.pdf`, 1 page: the 2025 per-acre agricultural use-value schedule for Arkansas, by region and agricultural class. ## Provenance Produced by Crittenden County Assessor [[Kim Hollowell]] by email ("PRC Report", 2026-05-21) in response to the Arkansas FOIA request [[Joshua Dunlap]] filed 2026-05-19 ([request thread](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/19e41bdc4dfe0788); [production thread](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/19e4ad280f6eda63)). The request had six items; the Assessor color-coded each as to which county office holds the records: - **Assessor** (items 1, 3 — parcel cards, appraisal records, agricultural-classification records): produced here. - **West Memphis City** (items 2, 4 — PILOT / community-benefit agreements, rezoning): routed to the City. - **County Judge / County Clerk** (items 5, 6 — county correspondence, Quorum Court minutes): routed to those offices. The Assessor's transmittal states, on the agricultural-to-commercial transition: *"the land classification will be changed this year and notices will be sent out in July. That information is not available at this time. There was no rollback."* (production email, 2026-05-21). ## Key takeaways - **A ~1,117-acre, seven-parcel assembly** on the south side of Bollinger Road, West Memphis (parcels 28565, 28566, 33059, 32905, 28569, 28571, 28574). The FOIA request described the site as "approximately 1,178 acres." - **Ownership chain:** the parcels were Bollinger-family farmland held by [[Bollinger Bros Inc]]; [[GROOT LLC]] acquired them in November 2024 for ~$35.7M in recorded deed consideration; GROOT LLC then conveyed the entire site to the [[City of West Memphis]] on 2025-11-07 for $0 (deed 2025/05083). See [[2024-11 GROOT LLC Acquires the Bollinger Road Site]] and [[2025-11 GROOT LLC Conveys the Project Pyramid Site to the City of West Memphis]]. - **Construction has begun:** a $1,000,000 building permit was issued 2025-09-30 for *"2026 COMM NEW CONST 90000 SQ FT"* on parcel 28565 (PRC.pdf p. 1). - **An [[Entergy Arkansas]] substation** is recorded on parcel 33059, a 16.64-acre tract split from the main parcel: *"TC 11/17/25 ENTERGY SUBSTATION ON THIS PROPERTY"* (PRC.pdf p. 9). - **The agricultural-to-commercial reclassification is mid-stream:** parcel 33059 was reclassified commercial on 2025-12-01 (*"KH 12/01/25 change land to commercial since work has begun on this project"*, PRC.pdf p. 9); the other six parcels remain at agricultural use value pending 2026 reclassification. - **The current tax base is small:** the seven parcels carry a combined total appraised value of roughly $1.29M (assessed ~$258K) under agricultural-use valuation — the [[Agricultural Use Classification]] baseline that is lost on conversion. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Kim Hollowell]] — Crittenden County Assessor; produced the records. - [[GROOT LLC]] — land-assembly entity; owner of record / immediate prior owner of the parcels. - [[Stuart C Hindmarsh]] — listed as GROOT LLC's contact ("c/o") at a Rogers, Arkansas address. - [[City of West Memphis]] — current owner of record of the site (since 2025-11-07). - [[Bollinger Bros Inc]] — the prior agricultural owner that sold the land to GROOT LLC. - [[Entergy Arkansas]] — a substation is recorded on parcel 33059. - [[Crittenden County Assessor's Office]] — the producing agency. ## Concepts invoked - [[Agricultural Use Classification]] — all seven parcels were valued at agricultural use value; the [[Crittenden County 2025 Agricultural Land Values]] schedule sets those rates. ## Events documented - [[2024-11 GROOT LLC Acquires the Bollinger Road Site]] - [[2025-11 GROOT LLC Conveys the Project Pyramid Site to the City of West Memphis]] - [[2026-05 Crittenden County Assessor Produces Project Pyramid Records]] ## Cross-references - The request's PILOT / community-benefit and Quorum Court items were routed to the City of West Memphis and the County Judge/Clerk — those records are not in this production. ## Open questions / follow-ups - **GROOT LLC ↔ Google.** As of this production no document named Google; the owner of record was GROOT LLC. The subsequent Arkansas Department of Agriculture production (2026-05-22) names the facility on this site the "Google Data Center" (Facility ID 900055) — see [[Google Data Center Water-Use Registration]] — confirming the site is a Google data center. GROOT LLC's specific corporate relationship to Google remains unestablished. > [!web-research-unresolved] Confirm GROOT LLC's beneficial owner and any corporate link to Google LLC via the Arkansas Secretary of State business registry and the recorded deeds (2024/04835, 2024/04838, 2024/04837, 2025/05083). - **Why was the site conveyed to the City of West Memphis for $0?** A developer-to-municipality conveyance at no consideration is consistent with a bond-financing or PILOT lease-back structure, but no PILOT or lease instrument was produced; the Assessor routed PILOT items to the City. - **Rollback / agricultural-classification loss.** The Assessor states there was "no rollback" and that the AG→Commercial valuation change is not yet available (notices in July 2026). The valuation impact is a follow-up once those notices issue. - **Production scope.** Seven parcels (~1,117 ac) were produced; the request cited "approximately 1,178 acres." Whether additional associated parcels exist is unconfirmed.