How Walmart turned Bentonville, Arkansas into a boomtown

Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas has turn into a boomtown with numerous amenities you could possibly be expecting to come across in New York or San Francisco – fancy dining establishments, craft cocktails, bicycle paths and a environment-class art museum. The town has far more cranes for each capita than any other U.S. metropolis as Walmart builds a 350-acre new headquarters. Bentonville’s population is envisioned to triple by 2050. But with the increase will come huge-town economic worries. CNBC’s Melissa Repko travels to Bentonville for the tale.

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