Economic Development

Create sustainable business growth

Discover where to invest in your community for greatest impact

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Build a strong community

To be successful, economic developers need to understand their community's strengths—whether it's an educated and diverse workforce, affordable housing, lower cost of living, great transportation, or a thriving local economy. Leaders can use location intelligence to visualize and analyze business and community growth potential, combining data about demographics, lifestyle, and spending. This strategic approach helps communities create jobs, identify opportunities for economic gardening, and attract new business.

See your economy grow

Smart maps provide community leaders, businesses, and investors with key data and iterative development plans in real time.

Attract new residents and businesses with destination branding powered by analytics, reports, and maps.
Identify gaps in goods, services, and infrastructure to improve quality of life.
Support site selection, planning, territory analysis, retail comparison, merchandise mix evaluations, and customer segmentation and targeting.
Identify opportunity zones and empower sustainable growth using data-driven maps.

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Capabilities

Create economic strategies, access real-time information, and see business data in context using location intelligence technology from the Esri Geospatial Cloud.

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Mapping

Visualize people, places, and assets to gain clear understanding of a potential economic development. See what's happening throughout the community, design a strategy, and know where to invest.

Visualize your data

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Real-Time Visualization and Analytics

Understand customer demographics and development plans across a community and monitor changing situations. Use big data and Internet of Things (IoT) technology to make quick, informed decisions based on the most up-to-date information.

Make sense of big data

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3D Visualization and Analytics

Extract value from your data to solve problems and see patterns, trends, and hidden relationships. Create models that make it easy to share your vision and ideas.

Interact with your data