"The site offers a
host of geographic, demographic and economic information often sought by companies
and site selectors"
- The Wall Street Journal |
"It will be a
standard component of economic development efforts everywhere"
- NBC's Bay TV News interview |
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"I couldn't recommend
GIS Planning higher. They have been responsive. They have done what they said
they were going to do. They have made the process of implementing a web-based
GIS painless, easy and taken the pressure off of me as an economic developer to
let me do my job and have them doing what they do best - coming up with a
fabulous product."
- Brenda Workman, Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce
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"Sometimes
when you see a particularly good use of technology, you wonder how
things were done before the technology was available. GIS Planning's
online mapping coupled with site selection and demographics is one
of those technologies whose time has come"
- Chris Steins, CEO, Urban Insight
|
"We've had a great
working relationship with GIS Planning. We were very interested in working
with the best in the field. GIS Planning has been recognized in
the economic development field most recently with an award from CoreNet.
That gave reinforcement to us that we were really working with a first-class
organization. All of our experience has been very positive."
- Harry Bumgarner, Director of Strategic Partnerships,
Dayton Development Coalition |
"Finding the right
‘home’ is often a difficult process - particularly for Silicon Valley
start-ups experiencing rapid growth. I foresee this site becoming an
essential resource for the entrepreneurial community."
- Heidi Roizen, Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital |
"Silicon Valley
Prospector is just what we needed. It’s classic
Silicon Valley stuff - easy to use, data rich, and really slick."
- Stan Christensen, Managing Director, Arbor Advisors |
"Simply the most innovative
approach to business attraction through the Internet being done by any city in
the country"
- San Francisco Business Times interview |
"Our priority is
to help attract and retain high-skilled, good paying jobs in the state of
Tennessee. With TennesseeProspector.com, we continue building upon our
state’s business-friendly reputation by providing potential industry with
the tools they need when making decisions about where to locate or expand.
This service is yet another reason why Tennessee is a great place to do business."
- Governor Phil Bredesen, State of Tennessee |
"PhoenixProspector.com
provides immediate access to critical business and development information
needed to facilitate job and business growth within the city of Phoenix."
- Mayor Phil Gordon, City of Phoenix |
"Putting
buildings and sites on an economic development website is no longer
enough. Every location in the nation has property to promote, but expanding
and relocating businesses do not move somewhere just because there is
available property. They locate in places where there are unique
opportunities and advantages. Arlington iSites takes business attraction
to the next level by providing online GIS site-selection analysis tools
to promote Arlington."
- Craig Richard, Senior VP, Economic Development, Arlington Chamber of Commerce
|
"Dell recently made a
major announcement about a location in Oklahoma City. It is one of the customer
care center which they need to propel their long term growth. They made that
decision looking at 122 cities in North and South America. The critical factor
to Dell was their access and sustainability to workforce. And this particular
tool – Zoom Prospector – helped us show them specifically the attributes of the
labor force at multiple sites within the central part of the state. So had we
not had this tool I think we would have struggled to try to put those pictures
together for Dell."
- Roy Williams, President of the Greater Oklahoma
City Chamber of Commerce |
"The site and building
database provides immediate access to critical business and development
information needed to facilitate economic growth in Indiana. Geographic
information systems (GIS) are playing an increasingly integral role in the
world of economic development and corporate real estate, and this tool will
answer the main questions that businesses have when they are involved in the site selection process."
- Mickey Maurer, Secretary of Commerce, State of Indiana
|
"Gathering business
and marketing intelligence including demographics, industry information and
geographic data used to take months. With this website it can now be done
in minutes. It’s simply amazing what is possible because it creates such
a benefit for people in the banking industry like me."
- Clyde Caldwell, First VP/Business Development Officer, Small Business
Lending Division, Community South |
"It [the Oklahoma
City ZoomProspector website] was a good tool to use to determine what properties
were available. It made the process easier because I could go in there myself
and look at it. A picture of the site also helped put a reference point with it...Every
search has its unique characteristics. We looked at hotels, places for
people to eat, traffic conditions around the site now and at the time we will
occupy it."
- Peter Kaharl, Senior Manager, Corporate Real Estate and
Construction, Dell Inc. |
"I expect that businesses
will find SF Prospector an invaluable tool in assessing relocation and expansion
options. This truly is a resource for sophisticated business planning."
- Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr., City of San Francisco |
"Chicago Prospector
combines important information with state of the art mapping
capabilities making it a high-value, ground breaking tool
necessary to uncover the potential and boost economic development
of communities in desperate need of revitalization"
- Stephen Maduli-Williams, Executive Director, Chicago Community Ventures |
"Our Internet GIS Web
site has revolutionized the way we do business. Staff can more effectively respond
to site search requests and develop custom reports with the click of the mouse.
Rancho Cucamonga had a vision for an Internet GIS site-search tool and GIS Planning
turned our vision into an award-winning Web site."
- Cathy Wahlstrom, City of Rancho Cucamonga Project Manager |
"This outstanding new
site [WashingtonProspector.com] sends out the signal to companies and site
selectors around the country that Washington State truly wants their business.
It makes the site selection process easier and will be an invaluable tool for
consultants such as myself, and for business owners, when we are looking for
a specific industrial sites or commercial properties."
- Mark Sweeney, Senior Principal of McCallum Sweeney Consulting |
"Washington State is ready with
competitive advantages and development capacity to jump-start business relocation and
expansion. ChooseWashington.com puts that information at the fingertips of the decision
makers who will benefit most from our offerings in an easy-to-use,
always-accessible format."
- Governor Christine Gregoire, State of Washington |
"The website was one of
the main reasons for choosing our company’s particular location. Using the website
we were able to match our business demographic to a location with the best value.
I tried many places on the web to find the necessary information, but the Chamber’s
website was the only one-stop-shop for every type of data we needed in both the
raw data and a geographical forms."
- Robert Walker, Owner, QuikDrop, an eBay Power Seller |
"I believe that all property
owners and brokers should have their properties listed on the OregonProspector site.
As a site selection consultant, the Prospector is where I go to get land and building
info. If a property is not listed, it is possible it will get overlooked. The Prospector
is a win-win for all stakeholders."
- Dennis Donovan, Wadley-Donovan-Gutshaw |
"PPL's (Pennsylvania
Power & Light's) Web site
combines an extensive regional site database with data in the International
Economic Development Council's standardized format. Site selectors can
use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to sort through
information on potential locations."
- Expansion Management magazine |
"GIS Planning's application
provides our city a customer friendly and interactive economic development tool
that communicates the opportunities that exist in our city 24 hours a day, seven
days a week"
- John Montagh, City of Concord Business Development Manager |
"The site's most
attractive feature is that it offers a wealth of important information that usually
has to be obtained by making numerous phone calls, visiting government offices
or searching a multitude of sites on the Internet."
- Albuquerque Journal |
"It's a very
effective marketing tool. If you don't have that, then you're
cutting yourself off from a large segment of your market. And I don't
think anyone can afford to do that."
- Mike Palombo, Vacaville Economic Development Director |
"Without question, to be
successful Tucson must be able to provide the services and opportunities successful
businesses require. Tucson's Commercial Property Online is an invaluable tool for
businesses, providing timely, easy-to-access information that is key to economic success."
- James R. Keene, Jr., Tucson City Manager /CEO |
"Business success
is often influenced by making wiser decisions faster than your competition.
Through the Internet, TVAsites.com puts the information businesses need to
make a site selection decision at their fingertips. It is a tremendous
value to the business community."
- Heidi Smith, General Manager, Marketing Development,
Tennessee Valley Authority Economic Development |
"The SF Prospector
web site is tangible evidence of the city of San Francisco's commitment to
partnering with the commercial real estate community. This outstanding site
will be an invaluable tool to inform and convince corporate real estate
executives around the globe of the dynamic business environment found
in San Francisco. The San Francisco CB Richard Ellis office looks
forward to leveraging this outstanding technology."
- Jay K. Mumford, CCIM, Transaction Manager, CB Richard Ellis, San Francisco
|
"It is giving us an
advantage over Web sites that do not yet have this sophisticated approach to promoting
- selling, if you will - Vallejo and Mare Island. It has given Vallejo an edge
in terms of competing with other communities."
- Alvaro da Silva, City of Vallejo Director of Community Development |
"I’m enthusiastic about it (Tucson Properties Online).
It sends the right message out to the corporate community. They’re used to doing business
online. If they are thinking of relocating they will see we’re a progressive city.”
- Tim Healy, Senior Associate in Industrial Property of CB Richard Ellis in Tucson |
"Sacsites is an extremely
valuable tool that will greatly expand the ability of Sacramento to attract additional
private investment to the Targeted Neighborhood Business Corridors, Downtown Area,
and Key Opportunity Sites."
- Andy Plescia, City of Sacramento Director of Economic Development |
"As an information engine,
the Internet is the future of Economic Development. INsideRancho.com is on the cutting
edge of this technology."
- Wayne Schell, CALED President/CEO |
"A major goal of the Stockton
City Council is to increase economic growth in our city. 'Advantage Stockton' is a
valuable tool that will help us in our efforts to attract new businesses and investors.
- Gary A. Podesto, Mayor of the City of Stockton |
"Indianapolis is
proud to be the first in our region to launch such an innovative, high
powered economic development tool. The Portal makes accessing information
about urban properties easy and it encourages commercial developers to
think about the once overlooked inner city."
- Roland Dorson, Executive V.P., Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce |
"The application gathers
economic, planning, utility, geographic, and demographic information often sought by
site selectors into a 'one-stop-shop' business portal on the Web. Accessible
via any web browser, the application allows viewers to view, create, and print maps;
perform site-selection searches; develop custom demographic radius reports; and find
available commercial or business property...It gives us enormous opportunity to market
ourselves to anywhere in the world."
- Jeremy Haris, Mayor of the City of Honolulu |
"Cyberspace can
be an efficient way of distributing information, and [the] site does
that and more.”
- Shopping Center World Magazine |
"...the future of the
Web for economic development marketing"
- Dawn Hassett, Managing Partner, Geographics |
"We have
been very happy with the creativity and ideas coming out of GIS Planning and the
willingness to accommodate our specific needs."
- Jesse Blout, San Francisco Director of Economic Development |
"It’s a marvelous
tool because people can site search at midnight if they want to. It provides
the tailor-made information that they are looking for. I see most economic
development organizations going to this kind of tool rather than hard-copy brochures."
- Linda Guillis, Moreno Valley Community & Economic Development Director |
"As far as tangible results,
we get constant feedback from brokers praising us for having the information online."
- Linda Daniels, Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Director |
"It’s (Southwest
Site Finder) something a lot of
people are looking towards in terms of helping prospects identify critical sites
in a community. It is certainly the way to go. It’s a coming science."
- Wayne Schell, California Association for Local Economic Development,
President & Chief Executive
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"DiscoverSiouxCity
provides a one-stop shop approach for parties interested in doing business
in Sioux City and is another tool to attract businesses."
- Patty Heagel, Sioux City Economic Development Director |
"One fantastic thing about
ZoomProspector was the success story we had in the first week of its launch.
We had a broker who not only listed a property on GIS Planning's ZoomProspector, but was
able to fill another property that he had that was available. So we had two
properties move in the same week as a result of ZoomProspector."
- Stevie Field, Southwest California Economic Alliance, Executive Director
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"The kind of economic
development web site that Inland cities and regional groups have been
talking about for the last couple of years."
- The Press Enterprise |
"Our new, redesigned Web
site creates a foundation for our marketing efforts since the Web is the world’s
window into our community for people considering the region as a place to move
or make business investments."
- J.Ed. Marston, Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce Communications & Marketing Director
|
"The GIS/EIS
system provides prospective companies, investors, entrepreneurs that are
in Hawaii or outside of Hawaii the ability to look at all available
properties on the island and to see the types of businesses that are
clustered in that specific area. The idea here is to make it easy to
look for property, get accurate information so decisions can be made
about moving or relocating in a timely and efficient manner."
- Manny Menendez, Honolulu Executive Director of Economic Development |
"The Portal will
not only facilitate large economic development projects, but also allow
for small, neighborhood businesses and organizations to facilitate growth
in their communities by way of this useful brokering and information tool.
This new website is a great opportunity for the business community and
Community Development Corporations to work collectively on rebuilding
abandoned and vacant commercial properties."
- Sherry Seiwert, Indianapolis Program Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
|
"Arlington
iSites allows viewers to look at, create, and print maps; perform
site-selection searches; develop custom demographic radius reports;
and find sources of capital for commercial or business development."
- Dallas Business Journal |
"The City
of Arlington is committed to growing a healthy economy through the
attraction of quality jobs and businesses. Arlington iSites is a
powerful tool to make the process of locating in our community faster
and easier."
- Dr. Robert N. Cluck, Mayor, City of Arlington
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"Pearland
Prospector is powered by GIS Planning’s ZoomProspector technology
which was awarded the 2003 CoreNet Global Corporate Real Estate
Leader’s Economic Development and Leadership Award. By using this
technology the Pearland Economic Development Corporation is
placing itself in the forefront of economic development online
efforts which are recognized as an industry standard."
- Fred Welch, Executive Director, Pearland Economic
Development Corporation |
"I've had a
tremendous experience working with GIS Planning. We were able to communicate
what our vision was and they were able to interpret our vision very clearly
and thoroughly. It's a real joy and pleasure to work with them. With their
backgrounds in planning and expertise in economic development they understand
our business, language and how we conduct business so it made it a lot easier
to work with them...they have a great understanding and capacity to serve
the specific needs that economic developers have."
- Mike Heaton, Economic Development Marketing Programs
Manager, Cinergy PSI |
"SacSites
is a great opportunity for the Brokerage Community and the public
sector to work together to promote business development in
Sacramento. CB Richard Ellis – Sacramento looks forward to working
with the SacSites Team, providing a cost effective means to
disseminate real estate information about Sacramento through
the internet."
– Al Gianini, Managing Director
CB Richard Ellis, Sacramento |
"The
positive response to the website has been great. A variety
of industry leaders have commented that the site is not only
user-friendly, but a powerful and invaluable tool for
searching and locating commercial properties in the Pearland
area."
- Karen Dickson, Manager of Business Retention
& Expansion, Pearland EDC
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"The site
offers more than just the real estate lowdown"
- American City & County Magazine
|
"In the past we’ve
noticed that in certain times of the year we have a lull in the site selectors that come to the Tennessee Valley. That has not happened this year. We have
not only reached our goals, but we’ve exceeded them. We can attribute that to TVAsites and the technology that we’re using. To be on the forefront you have
to have the technology that is leading there. And for the Tennessee Valley that’s GIS Planning.”
- Carmen Taylor, Tennessee Valley Authority
|
"The company's
software gives users access to incredibly detailed information about
a community's physical assets."
- The Spokesman-Review
|
"Users
can pull up maps of available parcels and then use the city's GIS
database to examine population, income levels, traffic counts,
and find out who the competition is - all within a certain
radius of the parcel. It's a clever and effective tool..."
- Tod Newcombe, Government Technology Magazine
|
"I think GIS Planning,
in the long run, keeps looking out in the future for the information that is
needed for communities to be competitive in the marketplace."
- Audrey Taylor, President, Chabin Concepts Inc.
|
"Wow...it is
pretty incredible to look at pictures, maps, space available and
demographics with a click or two of your mouse"
- Peter Pike, President, PikeNet |
"By leveraging
the power of the Internet and GIS for economic development, we are
expanding our networks through TVAsites.com to generate more leads
and secure more projects in the Tennessee Valley region."
- John Bradley, Senior Vice President, TVA Economic Development
|
"The www.okcedis.com
tool has created tremendous value for our organization and for our
corporate real estate partners in the region. When you combine the
ability to search for any available property in the region with
sophisticated demographic and economic data…we provide a higher
level of service than almost any other region. We understand that
in today’s environment, companies don’t have the time to put together
data from a multitude of sources. If we can centralize data into these
web-based programs and provide greater access to information analysis,
we can compress days of research into minutes."
- Roy Williams, President, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce |
"As a commercial
real estate leasing agent, SF Prospector has created
significant value for me. Within a few weeks after listing a property on
the website I received a call from a software development company. Shortly
after that we closed the deal. Since they already used SF Prospector to do
their research I knew the company was a qualified lead. Without SF
Prospector I don't know if I would have received their call. The website
makes it easier for me to generate more leads and easier for businesses to
locate in the city."
- David Lambert, Leasing Agent, TRI Commercial ONCOR
|
"...the Web site
has saved the chamber an estimated $5.8 million in labor costs,
turnaround time and other costs..."
- The Oklahoman |
"I am confident
that by making this time-intensive investment, we will yield dividends
to our economy for years to come."
- Governor Ted Kulongoski, State of Oregon
|
"This new mapping
capability has a broad range of potential uses. City economic development
departments and chambers of commerce can use both the industry cluster
and training information for local planning and development projects. "
- Jack Kyser, Chief Economist, Los Angeles County Economic
Development Corporation |
"When anyone is
considering Greensboro, N.C., as a potential spot to relocate a
business, the first thing they need is information. So finding
information fast and leading folks to call us are the primary
things we wanted our new Web site to do."
- Dan Lynch, Senior Vice President, Greensboro Economic Development Partnership
|
"A couple of weeks ago
we had a (site selection) consultant from Staubach call, and he only wanted to tell me how
impressed he was with our website, that it had all the coverage that he needed,
that it had all the demographic information available for his client, and he was
able to give his client a quick response in a very short period of time.”
- Craig Richard, Senior VP, Economic Development, Arlington
Chamber of Commerce |
"The internet has certainly
become the standard for anybody looking for information on sites and buildings.
People expect it to be available. People expect it to be available anonymously.
They don’t want to call people and identify themselves. So any site that operates
quickly and easily, and is intuitive to use, which ZoomProspector is, definitely
has a significant value."
- Donald Bernhard, PPL
|
"In just 30 minutes we
were able to generate a report from www.okcedis.com about three sites in the
Oklahoma City workforce draw of 19 to 39 year olds. We were able to generate
a report, email it to the company [Dell Computers], and they were able to make a decision on
which site had the best workforce draw. The company was blown away with our
response time and the accuracy and efficiency of the data."
- Brenda Workman, Director of Central City Development,
Oklahoma City Chamber |
"So much of the site
selection analysis is being done on the web today. It is very beneficial for
economic development organizations to put a program such as ZoomProspector on
their website before their competitors do, or else they’re going to fall behind."
- Pete Julius, VP of Business Development, Whittaker Associates
|
"ZoomProspector has made
it faster for me to respond to the clients' needs. When I get a request for
information, I can pull the data immediately, pull it off the web and email
it to them, or refer them directly to our website."
- Sharon Ward, PPL |
"We looked at a number
of products in the marketplace and felt that the GIS Planning product was one
that had a tremendous amount of credibility. We certainly trusted those that
were involved in bringing this product to market, and felt completely that
it was the right choice for us."
- Harry Bumgarner, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Dayton Development Coalition
|
"GIS Planning products as
they sit out on the internet representing communities are beneficial to how we
deliver our product to our customers."
- Donald Schjeldahl, Vice President and Director - Facilities,
Location Group, The Austin Company |
"PhoenixProspector.com
provides needed site selection analysis information with unique geographic
advantages and business opportunities in our community."
- Bobby Franco, Community and Economic Development Director for
the City of Phoenix
|
"Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
are playing an increasingly integral role in the world of economic development and corporate
real estate. Information technology heavyweight Dell Inc. came to appreciate the value of
GIS during its 2004 site search for a new customer service center. Dell eventually chose a
60-acre site in Oklahoma City for a new 120,000 square foot facility. When the clock wound down
on the final site choice after a three-month search, a web-based GIS tool used by the Oklahoma
City Chamber of Commerce played a key role."
- Site Selection magazine |
"We’ve only been at this
[implementation of GIS Planning's ZoomProspector] for a few months, and we’ve
already got a dental complex locating in our town that’s going to bring 35 to 40
jobs. They used this software to find their site. Very certainly, it’s already
paid for itself in my estimation."
- Ken Nelson, City of Kennewick, Economic Development Director
|
"GIS Planning Inc.
is a leader in providing economic development, city planning, public works, and environmental application
development. The company has been widely honored and recognized
for its custom Web geographic information system (GIS) applications using ArcIMS and modern Web
technologies. By leveraging the Internet and GIS, the company is providing tremendous value to
how organizations can disseminate geographic knowledge to solve a host of problems and to explore
many new opportunities."
- Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI |
"As prospects and expanding
businesses request information, we lead them to the NorfolkNavigator site to view
properties immediately without having to worry them with passwords or the maze of
local real estate websites. As a result, we have received enthusiastic response
from both prospects and the real estate community and have enhanced the working
relationships throughout offices and the City."
- Rod Woolard, Director of Development for the City of Norfolk
|
"We are committed to
business expansion and recruitment in the Portland region, and the Portland
Prospector searchable database is an excellent additional tool to promote
Portland as a place to do business."
- Matt Hennessee, Portland Development Commission, Chairman of the
Board of Commissioners |
"Today, the first stop for
site selectors is the Internet. And they're looking for more than a listing of
available sites, their size and location. They want in-depth details and
extensive demographic, competitive and mapping information that they can customize
for their needs. That’s just what we’re providing. Users can set their own
search criteria for properties, print maps and develop extensive reports tailored
with the precise information they need."
- Cinda Kelley, Lafayette-West Lafayette EDC, Executive Director
|
"This tool is the wave of today.
People want instant information, and this helps us supply it in an efficient, quick manner."
- Rod Evans, Commercial Broker for F.C. Tucker/Lafayette Realtors |
"St. Johns Business Prospector
provides immediate access to critical business and development information needed
to facilitate job growth in St. Johns County."
- Jim Browning, Chairman, St. Augustine and St. Johns County Economic Development Council
|
"It gives us a very professional
package we can use to make sure we make the list when someone is looking for a location."
- Regina Smith, Executive Director of the Lee County Economic Development Office |
"Recognizing communities
are often overlooked for new job investments if they do not provide quality
information online, the state responded to this need by creating
TennesseeProspector.com to attract new businesses and to respond to existing
businesses’ needs."
- Citizen Tribune
|
"I believe this website
is a great source of information for business and site location consultants. It
has an available property section, which includes features such as demographic
and business reports that can be customized. It includes information on incentives
and financing opportunities that are very attractive to business and industry."
- Andy Kuchta, Clermont County Economic Development Director |
"In the past we’ve noticed
that in certain times of the year we have a lull in the site selectors that come
to the Tennessee Valley. That has not happened this year. We have not only
reached our goals, but we’ve exceeded them. We can attribute that to TVAsites
and the technology that we’re using. To be on the forefront
you have to have the technology that is leading there. And for the Tennessee
Valley that’s GIS Planning."
- Carmen Taylor, Tennessee Valley Authority
|
"The portal, at www.teamneo.org,
allows corporate real estate managers to find available expansion sites and provides them
with important data about the composition of the labor pool and the availability of financial
assistance in an area. Such Internet portals have become the preferred method among site-selection
specialists for scouting out potential expansion locations, and Team NEO's is a good one."
- Crain's Cleveland Business |
"This translates into is an effective tool
for marketing Northeast Ohio. REDIS is allowing properties throughout our region to be viewed by
potential businesses."
- Bob Farley, president of Team NEO
|
"Today the first stop for many site
selectors is the Internet. And they’re looking for more than a listing of available sites, their
size and location. They want in-depth details, specific demographic and mapping information that
they can customize to their needs. That’s just what we are providing through Cedar Park Prospector."
- Phil Brewer, Economic Development Director, City of Cedar Park |
"Cedar Park is back in the game of
serious economic development. Prospector is a premier interface tool we can use to increase
visibility of available sites for development in our community."
- Shaune Haas, President, Cedar Park 4A Development Corporation
|
"As everyone knows, the Internet has
increased its usefulness each year. Since we are in the real estate business, this website has
been very pertinent to us. This website saves us time with having data at our finger tips. At
this day and age when our clients would like to have this data instantly, we know we can count
on you. We appreciate the fact that there is a wide range of material available to us through this website."
- Johnny Sims, Hardcastle Real Estate |
"This has been a very helpful website.
I use it to search for property and also have some listings on there. A lot of people that
I know use it and if more cities had it I think it would be very beneficial!"
- Craig McGuire, R. West Development
|
"ChicagoProspector.org is a terrific real
estate and market analysis tool."
- Donna Rockin, Duman Microenterprise Center & Loan Fund, JVS Chicago |
"Buildings and sites are available
throughout the nation; what makes the South Central Kentucky region attractive is highly
related to our location-specific advantages. Expanding and relocating businesses are
able to access this information by leveraging the site-specific power of GIS through southcentralky.com"
- Jim Hizer, President, Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce |
"Oregon’s certified site program
coupled with OregonProspector sets it apart from other states."
- Bill Fredericks, Wadley-Donovan-Gutshaw |
"...a tool that Milwaukee has never seen before: interactive maps that zero in on available land, warehouses, offices or factories, cataloged according to specifications typed in by companies that might be looking to expand in the Midwest... And site selection trade journals concur that nearly 90% of site searches begin on the Internet. That means that any region without a Web presence gets bypassed without even knowing it lost its chance."
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
"When someone from California is looking for a site, they don't want to go to different Web sites looking for information."
- Neil Hensley, Senior Director of Economic Development, Cincinnati USA |
"It's going to be one of those things that if you're not in it, you're going to have to sit in front of your (building) owner and explain why not."
- Ken Murawski, Managing Director of Brokerage Services, CB Richard Ellis |
"To be nationally competitive in marketing commercial real estate, we need to have a Web-enabled or Web-based database... The feature that is really powerful about this is that once you identify the property, you also can go in and see aerial photographs, and query additional information about such things as demographics, wages paid and the other businesses that are located within a certain radius of the site."
- Dewitt Peart, Vice President of Economic Development, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance |
"Anybody with a computer can get on Prospector at anytime from anywhere in the world. It's user friendly and easy to use. You won't have to dig for reports."
- Jason Blaylock, Economic Development Researcher, Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce |
"It's great for people who have something to sell or who are looking to buy and I think it is great for lenders ... It has all the information any reasonable person would have from either side of the coin. (The website) is just an excellent tool to bring buyers, sellers and lenders together and it's easy."
- Jay M. Ellington, Director of Workforce Development, Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce |
"SiliconValleyProspector.com provides immediate access to critical business and development information needed to facilitate job growth in Silicon Valley."
- Russell Hancock, Joint Venture president and CEO |
"I spend my time in the financial world facilitating the work of entrepreneurs, but it’s funny - once they have their financing the next thing they need is space. Where do they find it? And how do they make informed location decisions? Until now the process was a bit helter skelter. Joint Venture has fixed that, and taken yet another step to create a better business environment in Silicon Valley."
- Harry Kellogg, President of Silicon Valley Bank Client Services |
"We’ve had three counties and a private developer come back and tell us that they’ve received real live leads from the site (within the first week of launching the website). It’s been a very good tool for getting the real estate community and the economic development community working from a common playbook. As a regional organization, our whole objective is to get the information out as broadly as possible."
- Bernie McShea, Senior VP of Business Investment, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance |
"Last month, a realtor from New York came into my office. He was looking for demographic info and he said that he needed figures on the number of households, income levels, and buying habits within Ponca City. He also wanted to know this information limited to the population within 15 minutes of an area he was considering for retail space. Within a few clicks, I easily produced the information he had requested. He sat there with his mouth open, later exclaiming, ‘You guys really know what you’re doing!’ He said he would have expected this level of service in a major city like New York or Los Angeles, but he was amazed to find an organization in a rural area with this type of technological ability."
- David Myers, Executive Director, Ponca City Development Authority |
"The tool (www.MassachusettsSiteFinder.com) aims to help biotech companies from around the world to identify suitable Massachusetts properties that meet their manufacturing and lab space needs..."
- Boston Globe |
"The new Web site will assist regionally based (bio-tech) companies grow within Massachusetts, as well as help those companies from out of state move into the region."
- Mark Bamforth, Senior Vice President of Corporate Operations and Pharmaceuticals, Genzyme |
"This tool is heavily used by site selection consultants and businesses looking at our region as a possible expansion location. The information provided can also support our local businesses as they look at expansion sites or data to understand trends and opportunities. ColumbusRegionSites.com provides immediate access to critical business and development information that will facilitate growth in the Columbus Region."
- Matt McCollister, Vice President, Economic Development, Columbus Chamber |
"Our region is committed to being a leader in technology and innovation. To that end, the Regional Partnership’s decision to partner with GIS Planning is very much in keeping with Fort Wayne’s own ‘wired initiative’, which seeks to make certain that Northeast Indiana stays on the forefront of emerging technologies."
- Mayor Graham Richard, Fort Wayne, Indiana |
"But what the ColumbusChamber is doing is a totally different product at a different level."
- Catherine Erney, Xceligent director of client services in Columbus, Ohio |
"From my perspective, the more you get the information out there, the better. The days of brokers hoarding information is old school."
- Rob Click, Managing Director of CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., Columbus, Ohio |
"...a promising software tool for site selectors."
- John Rees, AngelouEconomics |
"They're setting a new standard."
- Morey Knutsen, Senior VP, Mid-America Commercial Real Estate |
"We’re at the very beginning of
implementing the Prospector tool. It’s becoming one of the areas
that is important for us to remain competitive. As other communities
implement tools like this on their websites, it becomes more and more important
for the rest of us to provide the same tools that competing cities do."
- Cliff Long, Economic Development Director, City of Nampa, Idaho |
"GIS Planning has been fabulous
to work with, and they’re always so nice when you call up and have a question -
whether you asked the question two or three times before or not."
Beth Ineck, Economic Development Project Manager, City of Nampa, Idaho |
"GIS Planning and Oregon Prospector make my job easier. It makes me more efficient when I’m working with not only my communities, but with people who are looking at doing business in Oregon. When somebody comes in and says, 'I want to look at Oregon,' while we get their information, one of the first things we tell them is we’d like them to visit OregonProspector.com. We always try to drive everybody to the website. It’s just been a real success for us."
- Jill Miles, National Business Development Officer, State of Oregon |
"ZoomProcessor makes it easy for our clients and our prospects to find more information about available sites and buildings, demographic information, as well as businesses in the area. Before we had ZoomProspector, whenever we would get a lead, we would have to do a stop exercise and have somebody go out and do this, somebody else go out and do that, and somebody else make a phone call. Now that we have a one-stop tool online, where we can go and in less than five minutes we have all the information we need."
- Steve Fritsch, Director of Marketing for Attraction, Cleveland Plus & Team North East Ohio |
