Las Vegas Mega Developer Jim Rhodes Profiled

Jim Rhodes is building the largest custom-home development southwest of the Las Vegas city limits and is tussling with "Clark County, Nev., officials to build another huge development atop a filled-in gypsum mine near an environmentally sensitive red-rock area northwest of the city.

But that pales compared with the largest project of all: building 110,000 homes on more than 20,000 acres in northwest Arizona's Mohave County.

If Rhodes develops that land as he thinks he will - Mohave County has approved preliminary plans for four of his five projects - he will likely become the state's largest home builder outside the Valley and transform the Kingman area, which is nearing 50,000 population, into the state's third-largest metropolitan area.

...For now, the man himself calls it Rhodes Arizona. In seven hours, he sold out the 69 homes, priced at $200,000, that he had built last year in Kingman as a trial run."