Business is growing rapidly in the town of Cabot, Arkansas.
On their website, the City of Cabot, gives you ten reasons to live there. However, as one resident, Genny Fare says, she can add to that. “Not only is Cabot a beautiful place to live, it has one of the best, if not the best, school system in state.”
There are no other towns in Lonoke County with a population as large as Cabot, Arkansas. It is a suburb of Little Rock, with a population of 23,776.
Now with the rapid growth of small businesses, Cabot’s population is expected to continue to grow. In 2014, the city Chamber of Commerce welcomed eleven new businesses to the town. Now, one year later that number has matched.
In 1862, a deadly disease struck the town before it became, Cabot. An epidemic of Typhoid Fever, killed nearly 1500 soldiers. By 1873, people began settling in Cabot. For a long time, there was only one church and one bank in the town. However, by the 50’s and 60’s the small town began to grow, mainly due to the erection of the Little Rock Air Force Base.
The Cabot School District is among the top three favored school districts in the state of Arkansas. And it is committed to providing every student a safe and cultivating environment that promises to prepare him or her for this ever-changing world.
The Cabot Community Center offers many activities for the residents. It has a tennis court, swimming pool, walking trails, a public gymnasium along with a host of other amenities.
Greystone Country Club is a beautifully landscaped community of luxury styled homes nestled on and around two 18-hole golf courses. The club has a full service restaurant that serves the best beer and choice of the finest liquors and wines. The club is also open to the public.
The Cabot Public Library was recently remolded into a state of the art facility that offers several free services to the community.
Out of the eleven new businesses that opened in Cabot in 2015, five are restaurants. Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Grand Pa’s Bar-B-Que (now called Pa Pa’s Place), Pinoy Express, Tokyo, and Chef Shuttle.
The other businesses include, Cabot Church of Christ, Complete Family Counseling, Hope’s Pantry, Hypnosis Clinic, Global Eyecare, and Owen Orthodontics.
