Ben Boulden of the Times Record is a business reporter by day and a historian by night. His skills and interests blend nicely each Tuesday in the features section of the local paper. This week, Boulden clears up the burning questions about which retail chains are really coming to the Fort Smith Pavilion and which stores were bandied about as possibilities during the planning stages of the project.

Boulden also addresses an Inquire Withinner query about when the remains of barracks at Chaffee will be cleaned up from that great big ole fire off Hwy 22 that claimed hundreds of asbestos-laden structures.