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Lake Havasu City Wins $2 Million to Fight 'Demographic Starvation'

Lake Havasu City has won $2 million, as part of a competition called “America’s Best Communities.”

The city will use the money to work on a downtown plaza, as well as some other projects that aim to attract younger workers to the western Arizona city.

Mark Nexsen is Lake Havasu City’s mayor, and he joins me.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.