Category: Business News

MOHAVE COUNTY – Arizona State Parks and Trails continue to provide value for residents and visitors to the Grand Canyon State, according to a recently published study of the economic contribution and impacts of Arizona’s state parks for fiscal year 2020. Overall, total spending by all visitors to Arizona’s state park is estimated to be $332 million, including spending in and within 50 miles of parks. For the state, through visitor spending in local economies, Arizona’s state parks supported an estimated 4,200 jobs statewide and contributed $272 million to the Gross State Product. In Mohave County, where parks had the…

KINGMAN – A significant Airport Industrial Park land sale was approved without discussion at Tuesday’s Kingman City council meeting. The matter was rubber stamped along with a number of other items on the consent agenda. A Colorado-based development company submitted the only bid for the 30-acre parcel at the business park, home mostly to manufacturing activity and more than 2,000 jobs. The Council accepted the Kiernan West LLC offer of the required minimum price of $1,975,000. Chief Operating Officer Mike O’Brien said the company isn’t ready to fully divulge its development plan at this point. “We are doing a build…

MOHAVE COUNTY – The Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) is proud to announce that Jenna Leveille, Arizona’s Deputy State Cartographer, has been elected President of the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) by her colleagues across the country. In her role as the Deputy State Cartographer at ASLD, Jenna helps oversee the Arizona Geographic Information Council (AGIC) and coordinates statewide geographic information systems (GIS) initiatives. In these roles, Jenna has been responsible for the modernization of Arizona’s State Geospatial Data Portal, educating Arizona governmental agencies about the vital role GIS plays, and leading Statewide acquisition efforts for LiDAR, which is…