Walt and Rock wanted to golf at Rebsamen Park, but about fifteen-hundred professional endurance swimmers were gathered on the grounds and in the new banquet facility recently constructed on part of the old short nine course. Golfers were lined up for tee times on the regular course, so Rock suggested Walt join him for a look through the new building. "I've never seen it," he said.
"I haven't either," Walt said. "Have you heard anything about it?"
"No. Nothing."
"I've heard it's great."
They walked in through large glass double doors and recognized immediately that this was no mere banquet hall. It was more like a mall, filled with shops and boutiques and bars and restaurants, and it was crowded with shoppers, many in swim suits. The entire vast building, which stretched a quarter of a mile north to the bank of the Arkansas River, was covered by a shaded sun roof and filled with trees and shrubbery and long rectangular rail planters full of flowers. There was nothing else like this in the Little Rock metro.
Walt and Rock were stunned.
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