Category: Business

MOHAVE COUNTY – FCS Group will be presenting the Mohave County Housing Needs Assessment Study to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors for acceptance on September 18th. Here is a summary and the key findings of that report. Executive Summary: All citizens deserve to have a decent home. The Mohave County Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) examines current housing conditions, forecasts long-term housing needs, and identifies potential policies that support a fair and equitable housing environment. The overall goal of the Housing Needs Assessment is to help focus community efforts on the most critical local housing issues. Specifically, the report focuses…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – According to the Wall Street Journal (Aug. 23, 2023), 61 percent of U.S. companies allow employees to work remotely part or all of the week, up from 51 percent at the beginning of the year, Although Lake Havasu City is a popular outdoor recreation destination, located on the shores of the Colorado River in northwest Arizona, local businesses also offer an array of options for vacationers who bring their laptops along with their bathing suits and flip-flops. Nomadic is the city’s first large-scale co-working space. The modern 9,051 sq. ft. facility at 2119 McCulloch Blvd N. is the new…

KINGMAN – A renewable energy project involving solar and hydrogen production components will be heard by the Mohave County Planning and Zoning Commission this week. The proposed project area involves more than 12,000 acres south of Red Lake, about 20 miles north of Kingman. County staff is recommending approval of Derek Fromm’s request for application of an Energy Overlay zone to property currently zoned A-R/36A on behalf of the Hualapai Valley Farm. “The project right now is for the farm that’s in need of energy,” Fromm said. “There is no existing grid connection available at the farm and the plan…

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead City School District (BCSD) has started an intensive program to improve classroom results and instructional leadership.  The partnership with educational services company Instructional Empowerment (IE) is covered by a $1.25 million bipartisan Congressionally-approved federal grant administered through the office of Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs. Many schools across Arizona and the rest of the country have reported students struggling after they returned from pandemic-related online instruction and other non-traditional classrooms.  IE states that its mandate is to build a cooperative, serious learning culture in all classrooms to close achievement gaps for all students.  That includes targeted…

KINGMAN – Mayor Ken Watkins said it’ll be the City of Kingman’s pleasure to host the Arizona State Transportation Board’s monthly meeting on Sept. 15. The state board will address its agenda when the meeting convenes at 9:00 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors auditorium at 700 W. Beale St. Watkins expressed interest in the possibility of the city hosting an informal dinner reception to welcome state board and staff members the night before the meeting, as it did when the Board last met in Kingman a few years ago. The hand of ADOT is evident throughout northwest Arizona with…