Rumors that Jonesboro businessman and commercial real estate developer Josh Brown plans to move away from Northeast Arkansas’s hub city are not true. Brown told Talk Business & Politics that his family has already bought another house in Jonesboro after selling their family home on May 30.

Northwest Arkansas hogs much of the attention in the state when it comes to commercial real estate, but the state’s other upper corner has experienced its own growth spurt. Jonesboro, the de facto capital of northeast Arkansas, now boasts a population of more than 80,000 residents and a metro count of 135,000-plus. The cultural center and health care hub of the region, Jonesboro has seen its own commercial growth spurred by the 2016 completion of Interstate 555, the former Arkansas 63, connecting the city to I-55 at West Memphis.

Trumann is a sleepy city of about 7,400 — just off I-555 in Northeast Arkansas. It's about 15 minutes from Jonesboro and 45 minutes from Memphis. Many people in the city are employed by Roach Manufacturing Corp., a company that makes conveyor belts and is based in Trumann. Also right off I-555 at Trumann is a development that could change the city forever. Trumann officials are expecting explosive growth spurred by the project, with the head of its chamber expecting the city to hit 10,000 people in the next five years.