Walmart Unveils New Home Office Campus, a Mass Timber Masterpiece

Walmart has begun the phased opening of its new home office campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, which includes several mass timber buildings, The Architectural Record reported (1-20-25).

Located several miles away from the company’s cramped, brick-clad old headquarters, the new campus encompasses an underutilized site that was previously populated by several Walmart warehouse facilities and support buildings. Spread across 350 densely wooded acres, the new campus showcases mass timber construction.

The sprawling complex’s dozen office buildings, the first two of which are now open, are predominately built from mass timber, including 1.7 million cubic square feet of regionally sourced lumber, according to Gensler—the design architect.

With 2.4 million square feet of office space constructed from mass timber, the project is billed as the largest campus project of its kind in the US. Incorporating numerous sustainable design strategies, the LEED Platinum–aiming mass-timber office buildings are powered entirely by renewable energy and feature high-efficiency HVAC and lighting systems.