Support business retention and expansion with ArcGIS
Attract businesses and make informed economic development site selection decisions with GIS business development tools.
From site selection to business expansion, use a geographic approach to understand local market conditions, evaluate opportunities, and track outcomes.
Conduct site selection analysis, evaluate selection criteria, and compare opportunities geographically to identify the right locations for investment and growth.
Through the lens of location, ArcGIS reveals patterns and relationships that can be difficult to identify in spreadsheets and stand-alone reports.
Create interactive experiences that help businesses evaluate potential sites, available buildings, infrastructure, workforce access, and surrounding amenities.
Dynamic maps combine information about real estate, transportation, utilities, labor availability, and quality of life factors. This helps organizations communicate opportunities clearly and move prospects through the evaluation process faster.
Strengthen business retention and expansion efforts by understanding how employers are performing and where challenges may emerge.
Analyze workforce availability, market conditions, industry concentrations, and the local competitive landscape in one place. With GIS-powered dashboards, decision-makers can identify emerging opportunities and prioritize support for companies that contribute to long-term economic success.
Gauge business attraction strategy outcomes, incentive programs, and economic development initiatives in a single view.
ArcGIS helps organizations track business openings, job creation, investment activity, and other performance indicators with dashboards and reporting tools. Teams can communicate progress and refine strategies using up-to-date information.
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ArcGIS provides the capabilities you need to analyze markets, evaluate sites, communicate opportunities, and support your business attraction strategy in a single system.
Create and iterate on urban environments and scenarios using synthetic or real-world GIS data.
Learn how ArcGIS supports additional economic development priorities.
Economic development site selection is the process of evaluating locations for business investment, relocation, or expansion. Organizations consider factors such as workforce availability, infrastructure, transportation access, market conditions, and available properties to determine whether a location meets business needs.
ArcGIS supports economic development site selection by bringing these factors together in a geographic context. Organizations can evaluate sites, compare opportunities, and understand how workforce, market, infrastructure, and property data vary across a region to make more informed location decisions.
Site selection mapping helps businesses evaluate and compare locations using geographic data. By bringing multiple factors into a single map, businesses can better understand how well a location supports their operational and market needs.
With ArcGIS, businesses can:
By combining these factors in a geographic context, site selection mapping helps businesses identify optimal locations for investment, relocation, or expansion and make more informed location decisions.
Successful economic development site selection combines multiple types of information to evaluate whether a location can support business growth.
Common datasets include:
ArcGIS brings these datasets together to boost site selection analysis, helping organizations compare locations and determine which sites best align with business needs and growth priorities.
Business retention and expansion (BRE) focuses on helping existing businesses remain successful and grow in a community. Because most new jobs often come from existing employers, BRE programs help organizations understand business needs, address challenges, and plan for the future.
ArcGIS supports BRE initiatives by helping organizations analyze workforce, demographic, infrastructure, and business data to identify opportunities, prioritize outreach efforts, and make informed decisions that support business growth and long-term economic resilience.
GIS supports business retention and expansion by helping organizations analyze workforce trends, market conditions, business activity, and development patterns over time.
With ArcGIS, analysts can:
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