Little Rock building’s ownership and soundness in doubt, halting nonprofit’s plans to buy it for homeless

On By Littum

3 January 2025 at 22.34

by

Daniel McFadin



Aaron Reddin, founder and CEO of The Van, announces plans to purchase this building at 8819 Arch Street Pike in Little Rock in this Dec. 9, 2024, file photo. Reddin announced Thursday, Jan. 2, 2005, on Facebook that The Van’s plans about buying the building for use as an emergency shelter and thrift store for the homeless had fallen through. Reddin said there is no clear title to the building and it has major structural problems. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Colin Murphey)

Less than a month after announcing plans to buy a building in southwest Little Rock to serve as an emergency stay and thrift store for the city’s homeless, a local nonprofit is “frantically looking” for a building with “10,000 heated square feet.”

Aaron Reddin, founder and CEO of The Van, announced on Facebook Thursday that the planned purchase of the building at 8819 Arch Street Pike had fallen through.

The reason, according to Reddin, is the person who presented himself as the owner of the building “cannot show any kind of documentation that he ever bought this building in any way.”

This means that there is no clear title to the building.

“So he can’t sell it,” Reddin said.

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