GIS Planning

"The [ZoomProspector] website has saved the Chamber an estimated $5.8 million in labor costs, turnaround time and other costs."

Daily Oklahoman

"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

"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 (Tennessee)

"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

"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

"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 [ZoomProspector] site offers a host of geographic, demographic and economic information often sought by companies and site selectors."

Wall Street Journal

"It will be a standard component of economic development efforts everywhere."                                                    

NBC's Bay TV News

"[SF ZoomProspector] is simply the most innovative approach to business attraction through the Internet being done by any city in the country."

San Francisco Business Times

"The [ZoomProspector] 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