aLocal Solutions provides economic information that's faster, better, and less expensive. We provide market and economic forecasts, business intelligence, and net economic impact analytics. We use proven algorithms that focus not only on macroeconomic impacts but understand how multiple systems in the community and surrounding areas help predict economic demand in the community. Instead of just reading descriptive summaries of the number of employees compared to state averages, aLocal analyzes these variables and helps predict demand levels. Our powerful analytics allow you to see on maps and tables where there is current economic demand (or not) as well as possible outcomes for future changes in the community. This includes increased multifamily housing, economic growth, possible zoning changes, and employment.

The Arizona State University (ASU) Office of Economic Development supports Arizona’s business attraction, retention, and expansion strategies to help improve our communities and accelerate our economy.

The ASU Office of Economic Development (OED) team helps companies and community partners leverage the nation’s largest—with more than 142,000 students currently enrolled—and most innovative (U.S. News and World Report, 2016–2023) university in order to create jobs, nurture new businesses, support existing companies, and assist civic leaders in making informed decisions about economic growth.

OED offers many ways to partner with ASU—including corporate co-location opportunities at our seven Innovation Zones—with an institutional commitment to collaboration, growth, and impact on a global scale.

Bludot provides a suite of software solutions for your BR&E needs. Built in partnership with on-the-ground economic development practitioners, Bludot's solutions help you manage and support your local businesses, track your projects, and run shop-local rewards programs. Within 2 years of launch, Bludot is used by over 100 jurisdictions across 27 states. Bludot is recognized on Govtech 100 and an SBIR grant awardee of USDA NIFA.

The Bollinger Foundation raises funds for the education and support of children who have lost one or both parents. Priority is given to families in which either the deceased parent worked — or the surviving parent continues to work — in the field of public or affordable housing, or community and economic development. Since its founding in 1989, the Bollinger Foundation has awarded $1,436,825 in scholarships and helped more than 180 families.

Business Facilities is the leading full-service media brand specializing in the site selection marketplace. In print, online, and face-to-face, Business Facilities has created a dynamic community that connects corporate site selectors with economic development organizations from across North America and around the world. Business Facilities magazine is read by C-Suite executives, corporate real estate professionals, site consultants and other business leaders. Published six times a year, each issue profiles state, regional and international locations. BusinessFacilities.com is the share of market leader among all site selection websites, providing up-to-the-minute site selection news and industry-specific features. Business Facilities LiveXchange is an invitation-only matchmaking event that connects corporate executives and site consultants that have active projects with economic development organizations from across North America.

Chmura Economics & Analytics is an applied economic consulting firm specializing in delivering advanced economic analysis. Our core competencies include economic consulting, economic impact studies, and our labor market software and data solutions. Our core audiences are corporations, economic development, workforce development, site selection, education, and staffing organizations. Chmura has the experience and expertise to transform data into information that drives effective strategy. Our premier technology platforms - JobsEQ®, and LaborEQ® - are in widespread use across the United States. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, Chmura was founded in 1999 and operates a regional office in Cleveland, Ohio.

CivicServe is the only purpose-built program and project management software designed to support all economic development strategies such as incentive programs, BRE, and other economic development activities. The platform has been built to support complex economic development workflows, digitize state and federal economic development reporting requirements, and automate compliance with redevelopment agreement obligations.

COACT has been working with leaders in economic development since our inception. Whether your goal is to create more exposure for existing programs and incentives to a current local business market for retention purposes, to attract new businesses to the region, or a mixture of both - we can help. Most economic development organizations are tight strapped with little resources to do a big job. COACT is the answer to this - for the cost of an individual's monthly salary, COACT steps on board with an arsenal of growth experts in strategy, research, design, sales, and marketing functions to meet your community growth and retention goals.

Site Selection magazine, the leading publication covering global corporate real estate strategy and economic development, is in its 69th year of publication. It is mailed every other month to a qualified circulation of more than 42,000* corporate end users and available at www.siteselection.com.

Global corporate expansion experts Conway Data Inc., publisher of Site Selection, state economic development guides under its Custom Content Publishing Division, and the Site Selection Investor Watch newsletter, has been a trusted source of business intelligence to corporations, government economic development, and investment promotion agencies around the world since 1954.

Conway Data owns and manages Conway Data Events, organizer of the World Forum for FDI and FDI training seminars. Conway Data also manages the Atlanta-based Industrial Asset Management Council, a professional association of 600-plus corporate real estate executives, economic developers, and commercial real estate service providers.
 
*December 2021; all circulation information is publisher’s own data unless otherwise specified

CO.STARTERS equips entrepreneurs with proven programs and tools to confidently start, grow, and thrive. Our network of local providers allows us to deliver these results in a peer-driven, hyper-localized context. Since 2008, we've trained more than 1,200 community leaders and served more than 21,000 entrepreneurs as they launch their businesses. Learn more at costarters.co.

Development Counsellors International (DCI) is “The Leader in Marketing Places." Since 1960, we have worked with more than 500 cities, regions, states, provinces, and countries, helping them to attract investors, visitors, and talent. We specialize exclusively in three areas of place marketing: economic development, talent attraction, and tourism, including websites, branding, public relations, social and digital media, research, prospect development, travel trade, and special events. Current clients include a range of states (Michigan, Florida, North Dakota, Vermont, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey), cities and regions (Charleston, S.C.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Cincinnati; Columbus, Ohio; Houston; Research Triangle, N.C.; and Jacksonville, Fla.) and countries (Netherlands, Switzerland, Costa Rica, and Georgia), to name a few. With a team of more than 60 place marketers, DCI is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Denver, Los Angeles, and Toronto.

EcoMap Technologies was founded based on a simple premise: it should be easy to access information about what's happening in the ecosystems all around us. Whether we're dealing with a local business community or an entire industry, everyone should be able to easily navigate every ecosystem, everywhere. At EcoMap, we're on a mission to build more equitable and accessible ecosystems through technology. We've developed powerful technology that lets us digitize them at scale, so that any ecosystem-building organization can use our products to understand, showcase, and engage their ecosystems.

Economic Impact Catalyst works with economic development organizations across the United States to build the infrastructure that accelerates entrepreneurship, facilitates small business assistance, and measures the impact of entrepreneurship-led economic development. In addition to our technology-enabled platform, Startup Space, we provide data and surveys for our clients to understand their impact and drive policy.

EDOiQ® is a complete software solution designed by economic developers for planning, managing, collaborating, and reporting on credits and incentives projects throughout their lifecycles. It is an all-inclusive toolset for organizations to track projects of all sizes and manage the relationships that drive maximum return. 

The partnership of fDi Intelligence and GIS Planning makes us the world’s leading online investment promotion service, with the most powerful and comprehensive portfolio of online products and services to help you to drive investment into your location.

Specializing in Economic Development; Community Development; Strategic Planning; Disaster Recovery; Emergency Management; and Hazard Mitigation activities, GRANTWORKS has secured and managed over $6 billion in state and federal funds. Through a team of over 300 professionals, whose combined experience exceeds 2500 years; our deliverable service capacities include: Grant Writing, Project Management, Reporting, Environmental Reviews, Income Surveys, Labor Standards, Buyouts and Acquisitions

Help your city's entrepreneurs thrive. HUUB is a one-stop, central hub for your city, bringing vital small-business resources to hard-to-reach entrepreneurs. Help entrepreneurs and small business owners get the support they need when they need it. Free up your city's resources and help economic development teams re-envision technical assistance programs and business retention and expansion strategy with a data-driven approach to small biz support.

HUUB's city-wide, custom-branded platform serves more than 1800+ businesses, more than 50% women and 50% people of color. Cities using HUUB  have seen the fastest recovery from the pandemic as measured by Intuit. Schedule a demo today: joinhuub.com

Lightcast provides labor market data and analysis to help professionals make sound decisions in their regions. We tell stories with individual-level LMI data that are unmatched in the market. Our data, software, and consulting services help economic development professionals understand and communicate their communities’ workforce strengths, quickly respond to business inquiries, benchmark their regions against their peers, and boost their business services.

Pat Davis Design Group is an international marketing communications agency with 45 years of experience working with municipalities of all sizes across the United States and abroad, including long-standing client partnerships with economic development, tourism, workforce development, higher education, transportation, and related organizations. PDDG offers a wide range of services including branding, creative, graphic design, web design, marketing strategy, communications, social media management, and event planning.

Placer.ai is the leader in location analytics, instantly generating foot traffic insights for any location in the U.S. Commercial real estate, retail, and economic development professionals are using the product daily to optimize their decision-making. Placer.ai provides a range of easily accessible reports on-demand, including true trade areas, visit trends, customer journey data, demographics, cross-shopping, property rankings, and more. The breadth of perspectives empowers local governments to understand consumer behavior, attract the best-fit business, and enhance local business performance to drive economic growth.

REsimplifi helps you stand out from the crowd by having the most accurate commercial real estate database available for your market.

Managing dynamic commercial property listings can be difficult as properties come and go off the market. Let us handle the tedious data management, allowing you to focus on higher-value tasks.

ROI Research on Investment is an award-winning advisory focused on investment attraction for economic development organizations. Since 2002, ROI has worked with more than 500 clients worldwide to attract capital-intensive expansion projects. ROI's areas of expertise include lead generation, benchmarking and target industry analysis, BRE strategies, representation services, and training courses.

In 2017, ROI launched Gazelle.ai, the first business intelligence platform that deploys AI to prognosticate corporate expansion. In 2019, Gazelle.ai was nominated as Canadian AI company of the year. This past year Gazelle.ai was recognized as a Deloitte Fast 50 Company to Watch. Gazelle.ai has an average user review of 4.7/5 (G2) ranking amongst the highest-rated business intelligence tools.

This past year, ROI launched a brand new service entitled Digital Labs, providing digital marketing services specifically designed for economic professionals.