Are You Ready To See Kingman Become A Destination?
Are you ready for Kingman to become a major destination? ready for this delightful city to become a place people want to visit, a town where people want to live, to raise a family, to open a business, and to retire? If so, this is going to be a very exciting year. A...
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Neon, Young Entrepreneurs & A Growing Sense of Community
From Stockton Hill Road to Beale Street and Northern Avenue there is ample evidence that Kingman is on the cusp of some dramatic and exciting changes. Neon is again lighting the night in the historic business district and along the Route 66 corridor, and young...
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Tourism & You
As noted previously, tourism and economic development have a hand in glove relationship. In communities such as Kingman where we are fortunate enough to have a twelve month tourism season and an array of diverse attractions that ensure we can market the city as a...
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Are You Getting Excited?
If a person wants to complain reasons can always be found. Here in Kingman, however, increasingly it is becoming more difficult with each passing day to find reason for complaint. Young progressive entrepreneurs with ambition and vision are staking their futures on...
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Opportunity Is Knocking In Kingman!
At least once or twice each year I travel Route 66 from end to end and on each trip there are formal and informal meetings with city managers, community organizers, chamber of commerce directors, tourism directors, economic development directors, and small business...
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Experience The Renaissance
If you attended the First Friday festivities this month, and took place in the scavenger hunt, evidence was abundant that the historic business district is experiencing a rather dynamic renaissance. The people behind the Kingman Center for the Arts and the owners of...
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One Partnership At A Time – A New Year & New Opportunities
The first month of a brand new year is winding down. That is a perfect time for some very serious conversation, honest discussion, and evaluation. Will it be business as usual (political turmoil, choosing sides, lamenting missed opportunities when the new year rolls...
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Kingman Is The Crossroads of The Past & Future
The recent release of the report that indicated growth in the Kingman area has been, for the most part, stagnant for several years was disheartening. From tourism to economic development this is a town with almost unlimited potential. We are a community of passionate...
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Neon Nights, Ringing Cash Registers, and The Kingman Life
It isn't hard to find ample opportunity for complaint in Kingman. This, however, is Promote Kingman. We won't gloss over problems or pretend that they don't exist but we prefer to focus on everything that makes this a great place to live. We feel obligated to share...
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Where Do We Go From Here?
Another year is about to become an historic footnote, and a new year filled with promise is about to unfold. It is a time for reflection, for meditation, and for the planning that prevents making the same mistake twice. In the last post we touched on some of the...
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