Accounting for Tourist Demand

Many site selection analysts continue to cling to using the total population within an expected trade area as the primary indicator of likely demand at a location. In our view, this often introduces error in forecasts because total population is rarely the best...

Difficult Development Areas

As defined by the Bureau of Housing and Urban Development, Difficult Development Areas (DDA) are defined as areas with high land, construction and utility costs relative to the area median income. While HUD provides low-income housing tax credits to encourage...

BusinessCounts Canada and POI Data Now Available

We are excited to announce the release of a new databases for Canada, BusinessCounts and Point of Interest (POI) data. These new databases will nicely compliment the other Canadian data that we currently carry. For more information on these new databases, keep...

The Public Transit City

Toronto has long been hailed as a great example of a public transit system that works. For many years, the downtown core was where all the job action was – the banking and insurance towers, the countless government buildings known as Queen’s Park, the University of...