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About Spokane Regional Site Selector...
OVERVIEW The Spokane Regional Site Selector project establishes a GIS based Site Selector website which allows citizens and businesses access to available commercial properties, business locations, land based GIS information, demographic and market information. The Spokane Regional Site Selector website will be a resource to local and imported businesses and regional economic development. The project leverages the communities’ existing investments in GIS to foster economic development, empower developers and investors with information, and improve regional economic development capacity. The project is organized and managed by the Spokane Regional Site Selector Consortium. The Consortium is an open group of public and private organizations committed to the creation and ongoing maintenance of the Spokane Regional Site Selector. As an open consortium, it can be expanded to include new members and will actively solicit new members during its existence. Current Consortium members are: City of Spokane, Spokane County, City of Liberty Lake, Greater Spokane Incorporated, and Avista Utilities. The Consortium is staffed and managed by Washington State University. Spokane Regional Site Selector is an interactive Internet mapping program that provides enhanced economic development and site selection services to the business community. Spokane Regional Site Selector allows users to search for available commercial buildings and sites as well as generate site-specific demographic and business analysis reports. Spokane Regional Site Selector speeds up and simplifies the process of finding the optimal location for a business in Search for Available Buildings or Land To search for vacant building space or developable land you can enter your minimum and maximum size requirements by square feet or acres. You can search for properties that are for lease or for sale. You can also search for the type of commercial property your want. By clicking on the "search" button Spokane Regional Site Selector will search a database of properties that match your specific property criteria and display the matching properties for you to review. Create Demographic Reports Once you have selected a property you can create site-specific demographic reports by clicking on a link or the file tab near the top of the web page labeled "Demographics". Select the type of report you wish to create and a distance from the property you want the analysis to include. There are four different reports available: 1) Demographic, 2) Consumer Expenditure, 3) Business & Workforce and 4) Employment Wages. This information can be used to better understand the demographic characteristics of the area you are analyzing. Create Business Competition & Synergy Reports After selecting a property you can create site-specific business competition & synergy reports by clicking on a link or the file tab near the top of the web page titled "Businesses". Select the distance from the property you want the analysis to include and click the "Calculate" button. Spokane Regional Site Selector will show the business clusters on the map as well as calculate the number of businesses in each business category. You can click on the business category links to see a list of all the businesses in that category. This business information can be used to identify businesses that can be potential synergy or competition for your business. Interactive Mapping Properties are linked to interactive maps that display geographic information such as the locations of streets, highways, freeways, cities, counties, bodies of water, rivers, rail roads, points of interest, major educational facilities and parks. All of the maps are completely interactive and the information displayed is determined by the website user. Copyright © 2006 GIS Planning Inc. All Rights Reserved. |