Van Buren County court votes to accept 1.7-mile stretch of State Highway 337 to back Green Bay Packaging expansion

Van Buren County’s Quorum Court voted to accept State Highway 337 Section 1, a roughly 1.7-mile stretch in the Sugarloaf community, into the county road system on a 8–1 roll-call vote, a move linked to a proposed expansion by Green Bay Packaging that proponents say would bring major regional investment.

Steve Good, who identified himself as a representative of Green Bay Packaging, told the court the full project would be “a $2,000,000,000 plus project,” with Phase 1 estimated at more than $1 billion and construction employing hundreds of workers. Good said the company and partner counties must reach approximately $12 million in committed funding—what he described as “drop money”—for the Arkansas Department of Transportation to open bids on the related highway…