# Vesta Addition Reversion to Acreage Three documents on a small but telling step in assembling the Project Leo site: an old, never-built 1912 subdivision plat — the **Vesta Addition** — sat inside the data-center tract, and Pulaski County required it be dissolved before buildings could cross its lot lines. The file holds the executed revocation and the 1965 precedent records the county supplied as a template. ## What's inside - `LIT Vesta Addition Reversion 2025-11-17.pdf` — a **Revocation of Bill of Assurance**, executed 2025-11-13 by Arnett Construction Company, Inc. (image-only scan; text recovered by OCR). - `Morris Heights Reduction.pdf` and `Morris Heights Reduction 2.pdf` — 1965 Pulaski County Court records of a reduction to acreage of the Morris Heights Suburban Addition (image-only scans; text recovered by OCR). ## Key takeaways - **Why the reversion was required.** During site plan review [[Jim Cranor]] flagged *"the existence of the platted Vesta Addition Subdivision inside the subject property,"* which *"should be petitioned for reversion to acreage... as our ordinance does not allow buildings to cross platted lot lines"* (see [[Pulaski County Planning Correspondence on Project Leo]], `email 101025.pdf`). It was one of the five conditions of the county's [[2024-12 Pulaski County Conditionally Approves the Project Leo Site Plan|conditional approval]], which named *"the reversion to acreage of the 8 platted lots of the Vesta Addition."* - **The 1912 plat, revoked in 2025.** The Vesta Addition's Bill of Assurance was *"filed of record... on February 17, 1912, in Book 1, Page 175"*; the property *"was never developed and no public streets, alleys, roadways, utilities or improvements were ever constructed or accepted by any public authority"* (`LIT Vesta Addition Reversion 2025-11-17.pdf`, p. 1). - **Arnett Construction is the fee owner.** The revocation is executed by **Arnett Construction Company, Inc., "an Arkansas corporation"**, signed by Ted Arnett, President, as *"fee owner of 100% of the Property,"* who *"desires to terminate, cancel, and render of no further force and effect said Bill of Assurance... in order for the Property to be described, conveyed and developed as a single unified tract of land"* (`LIT Vesta Addition Reversion 2025-11-17.pdf`, pp. 1–2). It was prepared by Jacob B.H. Hill of Kutak Rock LLP, Little Rock. This confirms [[Arnett Construction Company]] as a landholding party within the Project Leo tract. - **The 1965 records are a procedural template, not Project Leo records.** `Morris Heights Reduction.pdf` and `Morris Heights Reduction 2.pdf` are 1965 Pulaski County Court filings — a petition, notice, and order reducing the **Morris Heights Suburban Addition** to acreage (12.86 acres, Section 30, Township 2 North, Range 13 West; petitioner Frank H. McCormack). They concern a different, unrelated subdivision. Cranor supplied them to Kimley-Horn as *"the samples for the reversion to acreage process"* (see [[Pulaski County Planning Correspondence on Project Leo]], `email 101025.pdf`, 2024-11-07) — i.e., as an example of how the procedure is done. ## People and orgs mentioned - Ted Arnett — President, [[Arnett Construction Company]]; executed the revocation. - [[Jim Cranor]] — Pulaski County Planning and Development; required the reversion and supplied the precedent records. - [[Arnett Construction Company]] — fee owner of the Vesta Addition tract within the Project Leo site. - Plain-text mentions, not anchored beyond this production: Jacob B.H. Hill (Kutak Rock LLP, drafting attorney); Frank H. McCormack (the 1965 Morris Heights petitioner). ## Concepts invoked - [[Reversion to acreage]] — the legal mechanism, anchored by this page. ## Events documented - [[2025-12 Project Leo Site Construction Begins]] — the reversion (2025-11-13) immediately preceded the driveway permit and the start of site work. ## Cross-references - The reversion discharges a condition of [[AVAIO Project Leo Site Plan and County Review]]. - That [[Arnett Construction Company]] holds the Vesta Addition tract corroborates the September 2024 site plan, which labels parcels owned by Arnett Construction Company, Inc. within and around the site (see [[AVAIO Project Leo Site Plan and County Review]]). ## Open questions / follow-ups - All three documents are image-only scans; the OCR text is partial. Cite the raw PDF page images for the precise legal descriptions, dates, and signatures. - The revocation establishes Arnett Construction as fee owner of the Vesta Addition tract but not the size of that tract or how it relates to AVAIO's acquisition of the full 296 acres. The recorded deeds (referenced on the site plan, e.g., INST. NO. 2024019470 and 2000034992) would resolve the ownership chain.