CONWAY — Work has hastened in recent weeks on converting the former Echo Group building in Conway Village into housing, with the project calling for 24 one-bedroom rental apartments and a manager’s apartment along with a 4,552-square-foot commercial space at the eastern end of the building being built by Neha and Pankaj “Prince” Garg.
Known as the Garg Complex LLC, the building at 15 Washington St. near the Four Corners, it was once a shopping center, and according to Garg spokesman Jim Doucette,
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