Retail Economic Development Enhances Quality of Life.
Just as retailers compete for customers, municipalities compete for the affections of retailers.
Is your city a diamond in the rough ready for big time retail activity?
Since 2001, Forum Analytics has helped municipalities as large as the City of Chicago and as small as Gary, Indiana to attract major national retailers such as IKEA and grocery store chains like Strack and Van Til.
The idea is simple: With a client base of retailers representing 50,000 locations worldwide, our clients are looking for your town.
A Forum Community Study will provide you with a comprehensive market analysis containing information about:
- The retail attractiveness index of your community.
- The index values of the underserved consumer groups living in your town.
- A comprehensive local competitive assessment and database to provide your prospective retail suitors.
- A professionally written, full color market study complete with maps, lifestyle segmentation information, competition, economic stimulus data, float, and more.
GIS Services
As strategic partners with industry leaders such as ESRI, Google, and Microsoft, Forum brings best in class programming resources, over 40 years of GIS experience, and cutting edge development frameworks to bear on your custom GIS project needs.
Our GIS Services Include:
- Custom GIS application development utilizing any number of industry standard technologies including open source frameworks;
- GIS database development and architectural design; SDE, Oracle, and SQL based solutions;
- Data correction and spatial processing, geocoding, address standardization at roof top level accuracy;
- Data digitizing and parcel mapping;
- E911 database development and management.
