Justin Macedo, a modern School of Arkansas graduate, is the model new proprietor of Uncle Sam’s Safari Outdoors in Fayetteville.

Some college graduates uncover it troublesome to go looking out full-time jobs. Not so with Justin Macedo.

Macedo, 23, signed the deal on November twenty third. Uncle Sam’s Safari Outfittersan out of doors gear and garments retailer positioned at 1494 N. College Avenue throughout the Evelyn Hills Shopping for Coronary heart in Fayetteville.

Macedo graduated from the School of Arkansas on December 17 with a stage in Small Enterprise Administration. He has moreover labored part-time at Uncle Sam’s and his former proprietor, Ryland Arnold, since May 2018.

Macedo acknowledged a small business-class enterprise throughout the spring 2022 semester impressed the idea to amass the enterprise.

“It was Mark Zweig’s class,” he outlined. Zweig is an entrepreneur in residence at UA He is Sam M. Walton College of Enterprise. “I did a consulting enterprise for Uncle Sam. He requested if I might be targeted on searching for it if it received right here up in the marketplace.”

Macedo acknowledged he found that the proprietor was targeted on selling the enterprise after asking Arnold about his long-term plans.

“[Arnold] “To ensure that you it, it’s yours.” Then we started engaged on it,” acknowledged Macedo.

Macedo grew up in Texas, nonetheless moved to Northwest Arkansas sooner than his sophomore yr of highschool after his father accepted a job as an IT director throughout the metropolis of Fayetteville. He graduated from Farmington Extreme School.

Phrases of the sale weren’t disclosed. Arnold purchased the store from his father, J.R. Arnold, in 2020. Arnold he acquired the enterprise from Robert Ginsburg in July 2011. Robert Ginsburg opened his retailer in 1982 throughout the once more room of the earlier Second His Time His Spherical Garments Retailer on Dixon Highway in Fayetteville. The enterprise he moved to Evelyn Hills in 1985.

Uncle Sam’s has six workers.