Category: Business News

KINGMAN – Site preparation is underway where Sun State Builders of Phoenix will build a new 40,000 square foot office for the State of Arizona on Airway Avenue in Kingman. The project is located on an undeveloped 4.5-acre parcel between Kenneth and Adams Sts. The new building will house about 75 state Department of Economic Security and Department of Child Services employees who currently work out of two offices downtown, one on Pine Street and the other on Beale Street. The state has placed the 1.5-acre parcel on Beale Street on the market for $1.5 million. That property between Fifth…

KINGMAN – Terry Thomson is proposing to erect a 31-foot-tall grain silo to support his expanding beer brewing operation in downtown Kingman. Thomson and his wife opened the House of Hops on Beale Street in 2015 and expanded it to the Rickety Cricket brewery two years later. The Thomsons opened tap houses carrying Rickety Cricket beer in Prescott and Flagstaff last year and will open another store in Las Vegas next month. Just up the street from Rickety Cricket, Thomson purchased a warehouse at 532 E. Beale Street that he is converting to produce three times the amount of beer…

MOHAVE COUNTY – The 10-member Mohave County West Basin Water Users Study Committee is meeting at the Capitol this afternoon, in House Hearing Room 1 at 2 p.m. Mayor Jen Miles is a member of the committee that is chaired by Senator Sonny Borrelli and Representative Regina Cobb. The agenda and full list of members can be found here:https://www.azleg.gov/iagenda/House/082719%20mohave%20county%20west%20basin%20water%20users.1.1r.pdf Background – Governor Ducey signed into law HB2467 (committees; west basin water users), which establishes a 10-member Mohave County West Basin Water Users Study Committee and a 10-member La Paz County West Basin Water Users Study Committee to analyze groundwater withdrawal data and make recommendations to…

After noticing Hualapai Elementary School didn’t have a fitting couch, Joe Kaelin, the owner of Arizona Furniture, donated this sofa-loveseat set on August 21. Kaelin looks forward to donate to more of Kingman’s schools in the near future. PHOTO COURTESY SKYLER HOLMES