UA-stadium contract firm switched out

Photo by Arkansas Athletic CommunicationsThe University of Arkansas System board of trustees approved Tuesday a swap of construction management/general contracting firms for its flagship campus's proposed stadium expansion.

Trustees gave the go-ahead for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville to select CDI/Hunt Joint Ventures of Little Rock, Fayetteville and Scottsdale, Ariz. The green light came after trustees expressed concerns over how often the UA System schools recycled the same general contracting firms for their projects.

Flintco LLC of Springdale and Tulsa had been named the construction management/general contracting firm for the project in 2013, but that was when the university…