The following links are for publicly-owned interactive business assistance websites that facilitate delivery of economic gardening services:

• 2005/2010 Demographic Trends. Create up-to-date profiles of your communities or customers with forecasts that reveal the fastest growing regions, wealthiest populations, and best areas for employment in the United States. Learn more at www.esribis.com/data/demographics.html.
  
  
• The City of San Francisco's SFProspector at www.ci.sf.ca.us/site/sfprospector_index.asp
  
  
• GIS Planning at www.gisplanning.com/iedc.htm
  
  
• List of case studies online in these economic development web pages - www.esri.com/planning and www.esri.com/econdev.
  
  

• Economic Development Interactive GIS websites
  Visit the ESRI website with information on GIS Economic Development applications, case studies, events and publications at www.esri.com/econdev
  
  
• Westerville’s Economic Development web site
  To encourage stable economic development, the city of Westerville, Ohio’s Economic Development Coordinator regularly provides interested businesses with information about available properties. In spring 2001, the city set out to streamline this task by creating two GIS Web applications: one to enable city staff to input and post information about available properties, the other to allow interested professionals (real estate agents and brokers, developers, and Chamber of Commerce members) to query that database 24/7. www.westerville.org
  
  
• Discover Sioux City
  The first ArcIMS solution in Iowa that provides expanding or relocating businesses with site selection assistance. Website visitors can quickly and easily search for vacant commercial properties, perform user-defined demographic analysis and generate site-specific business reports. Zoning, Aerial Photos, Urban Renewal Districts, Waterways, Railroads and Traffic Counts can be viewed on the map interface. Property data is updated in real-time through a web browser interface.
  www.discoversiouxcity.com
  
  
• Destination Brooklyn, an interactive online map, offers detailed real estate and demographic information for every property and neighborhood in Brooklyn. The mapping service was created by CMAP for the Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation (BEDC).
  www.cmap.nypirg.org/netmaps/bedc/bedc.htm
  
  
• Concord First is an economic development program that assists expanding or relocating businesses with site selection analysis using ArcIMS. Website visitors can search for vacant commercial properties as well as create user-defined demographic and business reports. The interactive map shows aerial photography.
  www.cityofconcord.org/business/econdev/cityprofile.htm
  
  
• MarketMaker is an interactive website designed to find supply chain partners and to improve knowledge of where food consumers are located, and how they make food related purchasing decisions. The website is a collaboration between the University of Illinois Initiative for the Development of Entrepreneurship in Agriculture (IDEA), the Illinois Department of Agriculture and C-FAR (Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research).
  www.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/
  
  
• Honolulu Property Locator is an ArcIMS solution that enables businesses to perform site selection analysis throughout the Island of Oahu. Website visitors can search for vacant commercial properties and perform user-defined demographic and business analysis. Parcel information, aerials, and infrared imagery are all available through the map interface. This economic development program was recognized by the Center for Digital Government and the Honolulu website was first place in the 2002 Digital Cities survey.
  gis.hicentral.com
  
  
• AJSPT Housing Land Supply Information, developed for Ayrshire Joint Structure Plan and Transportation Committee, provides an accurate picture of the opportunities for future housing development in Ayrshire.
  gis.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/viewerhls/default.htm
  
  
• MassMeansBusiness.com is the only system of its kind throughout the country, providing a free, statewide, GIS-based system for site selection services that incorporates demographic as well as business data for each and every site. The site provides data from state as well as federal and private sector organizations that make a compelling case for why businesses should expand or relocate to Massachusetts.
  www.massachusettssitefinder.com/
  
  
• New Mexico Biz Sites is an economic development program that assists expanding or relocating businesses with site selection analysis. Website visitors can search for vacant commercial properties, perform user-defined demographic analysis and generate site-specific business reports. Independent GIS data from Santa Fe, Los Alamos, and Rio Arriba counties are integrated into one ArcIMS site.
  www.nmbizsites.com
  
  
• Southwest Site Finder is an economic development site selection program. Its one-stop approach allows real estate brokers, site selectors and corporate executives to go to a single source to find all they need to know about Southwest Riverside County including available commercial property listings. Separate GIS data from Lake Elsinore, Murrieta, Temecula and Riverside County are integrated into one ArcIMS site.
  www.swcaliforniasitefinder.com
  
  
• San Francisco Prospector assists businesses wanting to move to San Francisco search for vacant commercial properties, create demographic analysis and generate site-specific business cluster reports based on user-defined selections. Incentive areas, aerial photos, parking, transit and traffic can be viewed on the map. Property data is updated in real-time through a web interface. Users can perform micro analysis of demographics and businesses by ZIP, Supervisor District, Redevelopment Area and Neighborhood.
  www.sfprospector.com
  
  
• Maryland's Buildings & Sites Property Search offers a wide variety of real estate options for your business. Complete an Industrial Building, Office Building, or Site search. Then from the results page select the Create button in the Properties on a Map section to view queried properties in our ArcIMS application!
  buildingsandsites.choosemaryland.org
  
  
• Cinergy Indiana Sites and Buildings ArcIMS allows businesses to search the state of Indiana for available land and commercial buildings. Reports include information such as site characteristics, utilities, transportation, photos and a community resume. The customized ArcIMS application includes interactive mapping and the ability to create user-defined demographic analysis reports.
  webmap.cinergy.com
  
  
• Advantage Stockton is an ArcIMS solution that assists businesses wanting to move to the City of Stockton. Web site visitors are able to easily search for vacant commercial properties, perform user-defined demographic analysis and generate site-specific business reports. Zoning, incentive areas, industrial parks and traffic counts can be viewed on the map. Property data is updated in real-time through a web browser interface.
  advantage.stocktongov.com
  
  
• Oklahoma City Economic Development Information System (EDIS) is an ArcIMS solution that assists businesses wanting to move to Oklahoma City. Through an easy-to-use interface users are able to search for vacant commercial properties, perform user-defined demographic analysis and generate site-specific business reports. Zoning, incentive areas and traffic counts can be viewed on the map. Property data is updated in real-time through a web interface.
  www.okcedis.com
  
  
• DistrictSpace - available commercial space in Tacoma's neighborhood business districts. Interactive site for finding commercial properties and pertinent data (assessor, economic, demographic, business, and so on) in Tacoma, Washington's Neighborhood Business Districts. (ArcIMS)
  www.ci.tacoma.wa.us
  
  
• The Los Angeles County Workforce Collaborative program connects employees, training facilities, and businesses using ArcIMS. Unemployed and low-paid people are linked to opportunities for higher paying jobs requiring limited training. GIS shows people the training and employment opportunities nearby their homes because long distances can be a barrier to securing jobs and workforce training.
  www.cdtech.org/workforce/
  
  
• The Department of Commerce has developed the Brownfields Location Information System (BLIS) to promote environmental clean-up throughout the state of Wisconsin. BLIS is an Internet mapping service that allows users to locate brownfield properties available for redevelopment. BLIS is part of the Department of Commerce Internet mapping framework project, WISCOMP.
  www.commerce.state.wi.us
  
  
• The Washington State Department of Revenue's online GIS services provides lookup tools and maps for the State's different tax rates. The State's sales tax and forest tax information vary by location. Often, businesses are uncertain which sales tax rate is correct for a certain store. Or, timber harvesters are unsure as to which haul zone code and stumpage value area code to apply to harvested trees. Also, for sales tax, users can type in an address, get the corresponding sales tax rate, and view a map of the address typed in. Alternatively for forest tax, users can specify a legal description, get the corresponding haul zone code and stumpage value area code, and view a map of the specified legal description.
  gis.dor.wa.gov/taxratefinder/
  
  
• SacSites is an ESRI ArcIMS application designed to provide enhanced information services to those interested in business or development in Sacramento. SacSites allows users to view, create, and print maps; perform site selection searches; develop custom demographic radius reports; access documents online; and find sources of capital for commercial or business development.
  www.sacsites.com/disclaimer.asp
  
  
• INside Rancho markets the City of Rancho Cucamonga shopping centers and industrial land for commercial investment. Users can query available locations and create customized property and demographic reports. All data is updated in real time through a simple web interface. INside Rancho was developed by GIS Planning, an ESRI business partner. The application received the Council for Urban Economic Development 2000 Gold Award, and has been featured in The Los Angeles Times.
  www.insiderancho.com
  
  
• Tucson’s Commercial Property Online provides instant web access to vacant commercial properties and assists economic developers and private realtors with business attraction to the city. The dynamic application provides real-time Web GIS with site-specific property, demographic and business information.
  www.tucsonlocator.com
  
  
• City of Clovis, California - Clovis City Map, Megan's Law, Community Development Project Areas, Down Payment Assistance Project Area and site selection for new businesses.
  www.ci.clovis.ca.us
  
  
• SAGIS - Savannah Area GIS Regional Economic Development tool
  www.sagis.org
  
  
• Regional Internet-based GIS (RIBGIS) is an economic development tool that shows the development opportunities for a three-county region in Western New York State.
  www.nysgis.state.ny.us
  
  
• Career Directions is an interactive, web-based mapping system that provides the residents of the state of Delaware easy access to employment and child care information. The first of its kind in the nation, Career Directions allows its users to enter their home or work address to identify and receive directions to all businesses, schools, childcare centers, and training sites within a three-mile radius.
  www.delawareworks.com
  
  
• Regional Economic Development Information (REDI) System - assists industrial developers, economic development analysts, small business owners, community planners, and others to explore land development opportunities and visualize relationships among available employment land, existing land use, planned land use, average daily traffic volumes, and other geographic layers. A unique aspect of the REDI system is the ability to map on top of a digital ortho quad aerial photo base.
  cart.sandag.cog.ca.us/redi/
  
  
• The City of Riverside GIS features four MapObjects IMS applications built with ESRI Internet Starter Applications templates and an enhanced interface. Served from a dual 400 MHz server. From this launch point, you can view on-line dynamic maps of the city. You can also access the Property Info & Site Locator, and Demographics Info applications.
  www.riversideca.gov
  
  
• Pittsburg Properties Online allows users to access information about available properties, demographic data, and enterprise zones within Pittsburg. It allows users to search the City's database for an available property for their business based on a desired size and use of the property. A site-secure real estate broker's Web page allows brokers to add or delete listings.
  www.ci.pittsburg.ca.us
  
  
• The South Carolina Department of Commerce interactive site and evaluation and selection tool allows users to access data, download fliers on each of the listed properties, display property photos, and navigate an interactive map. Clients can request information on available industrial sites and buildings according to standard selection criteria including geographic considerations, specific infrastructure needs (water, wastewater, utilities), physical considerations (acreage, square footage, ceiling heights), and transportation/access requirements.
  www.sccommerce.com
  
  
• The Vallejo Economic Development Information System (VEDIS) is a business attraction and site selection application using ArcIMS and gisplanning.com technology. Web site visitors can search for available properties, perform demographic analysis and generate business reports. New features include business searches and taking virtual reality tours for points of interest. VEDIS received ESRI’s Best Interactive Internet Site award and was recognized nationally by the US Department of Commerce as an “Innovative Local Economic Development Program.”
  gis.ci.vallejo.ca.us/