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Animate Time and Space to Visualize Economic Change
GIS products are bringing spatial and temporal tools to analysts' desktops. Workers in the natural and physical sciences have made good use of these tools, and social scientists now are learning their utility as well.
Empowering Small Communities Using ArcWeb Services for Economic Development
LocationOne (LOIS) is a Web-based searchable community, sites, and buildings database that provides access to detailed mapping and up-to-date demographic reports through ESRI ArcWeb services. More than 6,000 communities in 12 states have customized LOIS and incorporated it into their Web sites to promote economic development.
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The Benefits of Using the Internet to Promote Economic Growth Aren't Limited to City Governments
The combination of readily available Internet access and maps is defining a new level of service for governments to both business and the public. It is making collaboration between government agencies possible in new and powerful ways. With maps, data has context and meaning and can be managed and queried far more easily than if that data was presented in tabular format.
Build It, and They Will Come
Economic development departments help local government thrive. Attracting and retaining businesses result in a broader tax base, a more diversified local economy, direct and indirect job creation, and fewer commercial real estate vacancies. However, the business of getting business is a highly competitive one. Much like consumers, companies have become comparison shoppers, and their site selection tool of choice is the Internet.
California Community Colleges Assisting Economic Development Growth
The Contra Costa, Alameda, Napa, and Solano Counties (CANS) Consortium consists of four major college districts bound together with common needs in the areas of vocational and occupational training for the purpose of economic development and welfare reform training.
City of Boise Showcases GIS Site Selector Utility
The city of Boise, Idaho, uses ArcIMS and ESRI data to let businesses locate potential sites for development.
City of Tucson
This ArcIMS site provides instant Web access to vacant commercial properties and assists economic developers and private realtors with business attraction to the city. The dynamic application provides real-time Web GIS with site specific property, demographic, and business information.
The City of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada, Uses GIS for Economic Development
Since its creation in 1999, the GIS Division at the city of Quinte West has been utilizing its data, software, and experience to assist with the city's economic development proposals. As the amount of data collected and accuracy improved over the last three years, the quality of the products produced has improved also.
Customizing GIS for Economic Development
Private and public economic development organizations are rushing to adopt multimedia GIS systems. GIS has proven to be very useful in asset management, site selection and marketing, suitability analysis, and policy impact analysis.
E-Government and Planning Profiles: Discover Sioux City
Discover Sioux City was created to attract new businesses to Sioux City and to respond to existing businesses' needs. The city partnered with realtors, brokers, and bankers to provide information about commercial and industrial properties for sale or lease. The Web site allows visitors to view, create, and print maps; perform site-selection searches; develop custom demographic radius reports; view business cluster analysis; and obtain workforce reports.
Examining Error: Consider the effect of sample size and error source when using census data
In this third in a series on the American Community Survey (ACS), this article examines how margin of error (MOE) for ACS is affected by sample size and how its accuracy compares to the Census 2000.
GIS for the New West
Vast open spaces inhabited by cowboys, miners, and loggers were the defining characteristics of the Old West. The 21st century West is increasingly populated by engineers, architects, and retirees living on ranchettes. What does this transition mean for the people and economy of the West today? What is the relationship between open space, growth, and prosperity? The Sonoran Institute is answering these types of questions with the help of GIS.
GIS Supports Economic Development in Southern California
Economic development experts have long recognized that many businesses prefer to locate in close proximity to similar or complementary businesses. Southern California communities are using ArcView Business Analyst tools and data along with ArcIMS to facilitate economic development.
Graphic Details
A data-rich Web site that displays GIS-generated maps is now an essential tool for cities seeking to recruit new business.
HUD E-Maps
This ArcIMS software-powered site, featured as a USA TODAY "Hot Site," contains up-to-date Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) data sets from community planning and development, multifamily housing, Brownfields tax incentive zones, and public housing. Type in a ZIP Code to find out about such things as hazardous waste and air pollution in your vicinity. This application has the capability to map census data and overlay HUD and EPA data.
In Texas, the Greater Fort Bend Economic Development Council Helps Businesses Develop Sites, Relocate, and Expand with GIS
Using the DEVELOPRO 72–inch touch screen, consultants, brokers, and developers get a clearer picture by easily navigating more than 100 layers of information used in site selection in Fort Bend County, Texas.
Map Your Way to Economic Development
This site is part of the Internet-based Economic Development Strategic Information Center of the Tacoma–Pierce County Economic Development Board and Pierce County. The center markets Tacoma–Pierce County to prospective businesses worldwide and serves the business community by providing resources and information for 80 percent of the daily inquiries received regarding economic development. With access to the county's databases, Map Your Way enables users to create interactive maps for many of the topics covered in the site. The site enables clients to prepare maps for their own specific needs, and by doing so, it's helping to promote the county's economic infrastructure.
Mapping the Future of High-Tech Economic Development
The high-tech economy begins with local communities. The New Jersey Redevelopment Authority recognized this fact in 2001 by issuing more than $2 million in local planning grants for cyberdistrict feasibility studies in 30 communities throughout the state. The purpose of these grants was to identify existing and potential corridors within the state for future high-technology economic development.
MassMeansBusiness Web Site Uses GIS to Provide a One-Stop Portal for Economic Development E-Government Services
A revolution is taking place on the Web and changing the way we think about eGovernment as a tool for economic development and entrepreneurship. Leading the way is the MassMeansBusiness site, a one-of-a-kind public/private initiative to assist small businesses and promote economic development in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Among its distinctive features is the site's use of maps and online tools. Built in a .NET programming environment, the application accesses ArcIMS functions through a .NET connector.
Missouri Department of Economic Development Maps Business Impacts of Hurricane Katrina and More
While images of rescue and recovery efforts in the city of New Orleans filled TV screens, the Missouri Department of Economic Development was already at work making GIS maps to aid in the study of business impacts associated with Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Nampa's New GIS Tool Points Business Real-Estate Shoppers to Suitable Properties
The city of Nampa, Idaho, uses GIS to assist its employees in responding more quickly to requests from potential new businesses to stay competitive with other communities. To accomplish this goal they needed to be able to query their tax lot data on a number of parameters and create maps and reports instantly. These reports may be saved to PDF documents for future reference. Additionally, a new feature is being developed that will query business point data based on a proximity search.
Now Open for Business
Westerville, Ohio, adds ArcWeb Services and ESRI data to site. The ArcWeb Services will allow the city to respond to information requests efficiently, manifest interest in new business, show the city's technological capabilities, and demonstrate the level of service businesses can expect from the city of Westerville.
Oklahoma City Economic Development Information System (OKCEDIS)
A feature-rich economic development ArcIMS application. The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce Internet GIS application offers businesses access to information that will assist with business expansion and relocation decisions.
Posthurricane Population Changes Revealed in 2006/2011 Demographic Data
Based on demographic data update models that were completely revised due to the catastrophic 2005 hurricane season and the addition of comprehensive data from new sources, ESRI's 2006/2011 demographic data updates have significantly increased the level of accuracy.
Promoting Economic Development in Kingsport, Tennessee: A Web-Based Approach
The Kingsport Economic Development Partnership (KEDP), located in Kingsport, Tennessee, is utilizing GIS and the Internet to showcase available industrial and office sites. The goal of the Web-based GIS application is to provide pertinent information about available properties to aid the recruitment of new industries and businesses for relocation to the Kingsport area.
Regional GIS Promotes Economic Development
The Umpqua Regional Council of Governments (UR-COG) won a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development, an agency of the federal government that helps develop sustainable communities in rural America. The grant is used to produce a detailed inventory and mapping of the region's unique resources.
South Bend Small Business Development Center: Identifies the Best Sites—Quickly and Accurately
SBSBDC asked ESRI to provide a more efficient answer to their marketing research and reporting challenges while adhering to tight budget constraints. ESRI’s solution was a Premium subscription to its Business Analyst Online data reporting and mapping capability.
Using GIS Planning Support Systems for the Tacoma Dome Area Plan
The city of Tacoma, Washington, uses GIS to redevelop what is now mainly a commercial/industrial area to a mixed use district of retail and entertainment with urban housing. Components of this project were rezoning, environmental analysis, transportation analysis, light rail, commuter rail, and the proposed museum and office building construction projects.
Web Tools to Put You on the Map—A Smart Mix of Maps and Stats Draws Prospects Online [PDF-726 KB]
The competition for business prospects keeps getting fiercer. A wise economic developer knows he needs to make it as easy as possible for site selectors and others to find the information they need about the region and the community—and even a particular building or parcel. And the most efficient way to do that is online.
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