An Unlikely Hot Spot For Businesses

With a bustling open-air mall off Interstate 8, a booming housing market and an $80 million riverfront hotel and condominium project in the works...this border city nestled along the Colorado River is experiencing an economic comeback.,,Yuma recently trumped Phoenix, and the rest of the country, as the No. 1 hot spot for entrepreneurs, according to one national publication. Inc. magazine, in its May issue, gave Yuma the distinction because of its job growth, which was 8.3 percent in one year and 32 percent for five years.