by Gary Menger | Mar 20, 2025 | Menger's Musings, Retail Data
This past weekend, we went to see our first movie at a theater in quite some time. Perhaps Saturday at 5:00 p.m. is not peak time, and perhaps there really aren’t too many quality movies out there right now, but the place was deserted. I counted five people in the...
by Gary Menger | Dec 5, 2024 | Freeway
As of January 1, 2025, Applied Spatial Technology (AST) will formally become a division of Applied Geographic Solutions after many years of operations as a sister company. The AST division of AGS will continue to enhance the Freeway drive time system, which will be...
by Gary Menger | Sep 5, 2024 | Economic Development, Menger's Musings
Late last week, an innovative scheme to attract new residents hit the wires. The city of Cumberland, Maryland, is offering a $10,000 payment if you will just move to their fine city and either buy or build a house there, and up to a further $10,000 in matching grants...
by Gary Menger | May 30, 2024 | Menger's Musings
By mid-morning on the Tuesday of the annual pilgrimage to ICSC Vegas, my body harshly reminds me that humans were not designed to walk for hours on concrete floors. And by mid-afternoon, driving south on I-15 towards the California state line as if the local sheriff...
by Gary Menger | Nov 9, 2023 | Menger's Musings
1985 was a milestone year for me. I wrote my first site reporting system for the new Intel 386 based computers which sported a massive 640k of memory and a 10mb hard drive. The design requirements were twofold: first, that we could execute a radius report within 30...
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