I grew up in Northwest Arkansas. Some of my family members were successful realtors here, I spent a semester in a grad degree class writing a thesis on housing prices in Bentonville and Fayetteville, so what I explain is respected enough to have academically peer reviewed analysis approve my gatherings. I doubt anyone would believe a comment buuut my grandfather actually dated Alice because Sam introduced them. I’m in my 30s so I remember the late 90s as a kid to now. This area has changed for the better in multiplicities. It’s a really good place to raise a family as long as I have been aware. The poultry industry is HUGE here because of Tyson too. What’s happening here with housing is honestly catastrophic though and people who have owned their homes for decades are beginning to be forced into selling under value because they can’t afford property taxes, or a developer will force their hand. The open secret is that you can move from Texas or California buy a “cheap” house and flip it because of the market here. That’s gone. Just to put it into perspective : Median prices for 3 bed 2 bath homes in bentonville grew 220% in 14 years. Again, this is for a 3 BEDROOM 2 BATHROOM ~1100+ sq ft home. The most commonly purchased type of home. For first time home buyers especially. It’s the house most people can change their financial situation with. 2010 bentonville Arkansas median price: 158k January 2024: 508k It’s getting worse, because rental units have also grown more than 200%, but renters here are poorer than 48 other states, and wages have barely changed too. Any supply that is built hits the market around 650k right now. People that have lived here even within the last 20 years are not able to afford that. When you make it unaffordable to the people who made the culture you exhibit as the draw you lose that culture. Her museum is a monument to that. Artists and the people who built the essence of this area’s culture are forgotten. It does not help that every city council member in the area was a realtor either. Personally I am pretty sad what’s happened here, and the homeless or unhoused population has increased in really upsetting data. Someone could move here from Texas or California and get a 5 bedroom 3.5/4 bathroom house for 300k in 2010. It’s been a crisis here for about 7-8 years and because most of the council members in every city here are realtors it will continue to degrade. To this day every answer you’ll see from officials is building _more_ expensive homes to trickle down pre existing homes to lower classes. Things are not corrupt here because that word would suggest there was effort to conceal the truth. It is very open and transparent that the people directly in control of fixing the crisis will do nothing, they will ensure they will have success with real estate outside of being in local politics, and nobody can stop them.

Perhaps, but I think the art was bought with what should have been higher salaries for Walmart employees.

And what about jobs shipped overseas so Alice could build her museum?

need to look up the Glass Door reviews before giving too much praise

Colombia is a beautiful country. I used to visit family in Barranquilla every few years. I’ve also visited Santa Marta, Cartagena, and Bogota, and a few smaller towns. Wonderful people and beautiful women!

It’s really booming now. I live and grew up in Fayetteville and the population in NWA is growing rapidly. Throwncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs is about an hour drive from Bentonville. Eureka Springs has its own charm as well.

My thoughts exactly! Or lower their prices so lower income people can afford to shop there! I boycott Walmart but recently took a lady who was down on her to Walmart to get her supplies. I was shocked at the prices!! I remember when Walmart prices were cheap!!!!

it's much worse than that. The entire town is run by the Waltons and they have cut delivery drivers wages by 50% . Look up the Glass Door reviews to see the truth about this place.

Nah, they treat employees terribly and most of the art is scrap metal, modern garbage, or political propaganda

Are you serious? This is one big tax shelter for the Waltons. Go pay your taxes and stop using public funds / ngo to do "good." We don't need your art. We need to stop paying millions to subsidize your workers because you refuse to offer standard benefits. Everytime a Walmart open, Main street dies, and the locals are stuck paying the bill. Read about it. This pet project of their family is absolutely offensive.

The Walton family is the wealthiest family in the United States. Because Walmart workers are paid so little, they on are Welfare and Medicaid, so essentially the Waltons are passing their costs onto taxpayers like you and me. I don't think "generous" is the right word to describe the Waltons

@@shockwave208 I see your point. Coming as I do from a middle-class background, I do not identify with people who have billions of dollars to play with. The Waltons are definitely in that upper stratum. But I will say this: Alice pumped lots of money into her cultural project that she might otherwise have spent on personal items: bigger yachts, more vacation houses, private planes, haute couture, etc. In that sense she is sharing her wealth. At the same time I also think that Wal Mart employees deserve to make a living wage commensurate with what they do.

@@avieboy I can see that the Waltons may need to address the adverse impact their business has on American citizens and communities, especially when it comes to uneven wealth distribution.

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Can I get a chance and visit you madam am really grateful to hear a woman like you

Well said.

Thank you! This is what I wanted to say but couldn’t find the words. You did find the words brilliantly.

Thank you, Colm, well said. What seems nice at first is downright despicable.

everyone has an opinion and i am stuck in the middle i agree that a fair wage go to employees and fair medical and dental healthcare and pensions to help weather near end of.life on earth. and i will admit that i have the correct solution to this problem. i am hoping mrs walton has some spare money to buy the washington crossing the delaware painting that was removed from the white house and is going up for auctjon soon estimated price is about $10 million. some news service and may even this platform of news if mrs walton could buy it and add to her open to the public and it is nice that it is free to the general public. that would be cool and i will add visiting the museum on my bucket list.

Exactly! If you work for Walmart, unless you live close to Bentonville, you probably can’t afford the gas to drive there. Seriously, she’s the second richest woman in the world. Her stores should pay a living wage.

Who said it was the "envy of the museum world"? It's not...

Hold my beer! Try 500 dollars per square foot to buy!!!

It’s adding jobs and creating attraction which helps local restaurants and bars for one. It’s even holding a music and arts festival at the end of the Summer. Walmart home offices are in Bentonville so a lot of people move there to work even before the museum opened.

I moved to Bentonville in 2017. My home has definitely appreciated, but there still are affordable homes to buy if you live on the edges of town in places like Highfill, Centerton, or even some parts of Rogers. They are making a concerted effort to build more for density to help keep some stuff affordable now.

That's definitely happening! Pricing locals out of the housing market and losing the small town feel. Of course it's great for businesses but at what cost? Be careful what you wish for.

check out the glass door reviews

Are you “unreconstructed”?

yep... they ruined it

it's all 100% phony

just look up the Glass Door reviews and come back

Tish W, I live in Northwest Arkansas and have visited the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art several times. I have been very impressed on the great access that the museum offers the youth. Every time I attend, there are multiple tours from many schools in the area. Dedicated guides will spend time talking to the class and discussing the paintings and art they are viewing. There is a complete section for the kids and families to work on art projects. And, Yes, they have programs that teach the children about art and creativity.

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that's the story they want you to think

If you’re serious about your questions then do research and find out. The answers are there to find if you look I’m sure. Posting questions on here is not likely to get you answers because how would we know?

@@lewstone5430 thank you. 👋😎🌹

@J. Parrish you’re welcome. Have blessed day.

The truth is you live in a cultural wasteland where the only “culture” were civil war re-enactment’s. Seriously, be glad you have this museum.

Almost all of the bigger, nicer ones charge an entrance fee to visit. This one is FREE.

@@dancingmeerkat2078 and you get what you pay for...

I would expect the largest museums to be in large cities. I would not be disappointed to find a smaller museum in an off-the-beaten-path location.

Tax benefits.

Alice call me

She teaches crt in a school? Where is she teaching??

The Walton’s are actually mostly democrats. So far as I know.