The I-Fourteen site occupies a rare threshold in Bentonville — between the city's growing innovation economy and its world-class recreational landscape — but the two systems had no physical or experiential connection. Little Osage Creek ran through the site largely unacknowledged, and the airport's final approach created a powerful axial geometry that existing development ignored.

• Little Osage Creek corridor as an underutilized ecological and recreational asset

• Airport final approach as a defining spatial axis organizing views and arrival

• SW 14th Street as a regional circulation spine connecting the district to the broader city

• Existing Pattern District amenities — Thaden Fieldhouse, Osage Park, Lake Bentonville — immediately adjacent but disconnected

The creek, the airfield geometry, and the adjacency to Bentonville's recreational network defined a clear organizing logic — align the district along the natural and infrastructural axes, activate the creek as public open space, and build the pedestrian connections that would draw the Pattern District's energy into the site.

• High-tech office campus as catalytic anchor for district-wide mixed-use development

• Little Osage Creek activated as ecological spine and public trail corridor

• Airport final approach axis as primary street and arrival sequence — Short Final

• Live/work residential neighborhood integrating housing, retail, and landscape

• Detrola Motel adaptive reuse as cultural and hospitality anchor

• Multi-use path network connecting to Pattern District parks and regional trail system

The plan organizes 26 acres around two converging forces: the natural logic of Little Osage Creek and the geometric logic of the airport's final approach. Short Final — the district's primary street — follows the flight path inward, arriving at the office campus where building, berm, creek, and landscape meet. Live/work housing, retail, food and beverage, and civic open space line the corridor, making the district a genuine gateway to Bentonville's Pattern District rather than an isolated corporate campus.

• High-tech office campus integrating industrial gallery, flexible workspace, and landscape berm

• Live/work neighborhood of 275 residential units with ground-floor retail and parklets

• Little Osage Way multi-use path and boardwalk connecting creek to regional trail network

• Detrola Motel adaptive reuse with event courtyard and community activation

• Short Final arrival corridor organizing movement from SW 14th Street to campus core

• Regenerative building systems — geothermal, solar, stormwater — integrated into landscape

Client: Green Circle Projects

Role: Urban Design and Master Planning while at Tryba Architects

Deliverables:

• District Master Plan

• Site Plan Architectural Vision

• Program and Yield Analysis

• Phasing Strategy