Business View Magazine | March 2020

330 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 AT A GLANCE NIXA, MISSOURI WHAT: A city of 21,000 WHERE: In Christian County, south of Springfield, MO WEBSITE: www.nixa.com NIXA MISSOURI Nixa has it all A progressive and fast-growing community, the City of Nixa, Missouri is home to approximately 21,000 people, making it the largest city in Christian County and the second largest in the Springfield metropolitan area. Nixa is known as an innovative city, having won the Missouri Municipal League Innovation Award for three consecutive years, something that no other Missouri city has ever done. “We really push to think outside the norm and how we can come up with innovative solutions to today’s problems,” says City Administrator, Jimmy Liles. “For example, we received an Innovation Award for our solar farm partnership. We’ve also won an award for our Community Alternative Sentencing Court (CASC), which is a fantastic program. And then, most recently, we won the award again for our Think Tank, which is a way for us to get our line-level employees’ input to ,