Economic
development carried out beyond the limits of a single
community is
referred to as area development. See the Area
Development Section of the Enterprise
and Economic Development Library. Also, Area
Development is also the name of the section of Economic
Development.net. The Regional
Site Selection Directory is an area development resource.
Area and local enterprise
and economic development information is available from location
data suppliers list
of types on page
4 of this economic development series.
The community
profile is a typical location information resource. What it provides
is generally organized by category. A category is referred
to as a location
data item or element. The
Network collects location
data elements from the websites of area
and local development contacts. The collection
is available for your reference in About
Site Selection with each item defined. The
following pull-down menu shows some location data elements
the way links to information
were found organized one the websites. The items in the pull-down
are links. to see data elements as used by another type
of location data supplier, CLICK
HERE.
Scroll down to area development-related definitions (more)
as well as some data elements used to organize location information in
community profiles and at economic development websites. Additional definitions
are available in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary.
area developer:
... a location
development representative; a economic
developer working on behalf of a region; a
type of location representative
among resource
and service providers identified as contacts in
the
introduction
to The
Network. An area developer is
typically in position to be of service to economic
development prospects as
a location
data supplier.
area development:
... a specialized form of marketing that
supports economic
development in a region; an
expression of the affect on the economy in an area where communities band
together for mutual benefit as they seek economic
development prospects. Area Development is a section
of the Economic Development Network website. You are using its guide
page.
area development organization:
... ADO; an economic
development agency or a
group working together to market a region or
to otherwise seek out and serve prospects as
well as opportunities for the common good of the places it
represents. An ADO, anywhere in the world in position
to provide economic
development data for the area or locations within
it that are representedsee
the definition of location
data supplier, has the opportunity
to publish a link for contact in Site Location Assistance.com
for
free. That same free
offer exists for Economic Development.net
as well. In fact, you can anonymously
request a listing for a place of interest
in The Network,
whether a region or location within, and we will do the
work of trying to find an appropriate information supplier
without obligation or cost to you.
colleges & universities:
... a location
data element. See following definitions
in this
glossary:
(1) institution
of higher education, (2) community
college, (3) technical
collegeany
one of these may appear as a data element in a
community profile or at the website of a location
data supplier.
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what are colleges and universities
as items of information about a location
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community profile:
... a line of text serving to indicate
that a group of links at the
websites of, for example, area
and local development contacts listed
below it are location
data elements. See the definition
of community profile in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary.
demographics and labor force:
... a location
data element that combines demographic and
labor force information.
medical facilities / medical care:
... a location
data elementsee
the definition
of healthcare in this glossary.
new investments / recent investments:
... in places
seeking economic development as
stated in their reports; therefore, a location
data element. For example, a location
package may contain a report of recent economic
development successes in a place by listing enterprise
development projects announced with an indication of the capital expenditure
for each itemCLICK
HERE for a definition of economic development that
states it is ... increasing the flow of capital through
the community and reducing its leakage (source
of quote).
place of interest:
... a location under
consideration by a user
of The Network for enterprise
development or other type
of project that
has the potential to bring about economic
development. A location of interest ... may
be a nation, a region, state, province or the like as well
as any size municipality or
other place at
the local
level within a country (source
of quote). The Network provides the service of
bringing locations throughout the world together
with prospectssee
the introduction
to Area Development in the Economic Development Network website
for an example of how The
Network facilitates the process of bringing members of
its target
audience together with places
of interest and their location
data suppliers as well as other resource
and service provider participants in its mission.
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definition of a place of interest
as a location during a site selection project
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schools:
... a location
data element and, as such, may be
a header for a section of information, for example
in a community
profile, about public
and private schools in a place. A
school is a facility or campus for students and/or
trainees. See the definitions of
vocation and technical
school in this
glossary. An
example of a public schools directory is provided
along with information about education as a location
data element
in the .network resource archive.
sites and buildings:
... a commercial
and industrial real estate category of location
data. Typical subcategories
are real
estate sites and available
buildings. Various real estate
terms are defined in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary, for example: triple-A
tenant, absorption
rate, acre, accretion, ad
valorem and
assessment ratio as well as real
estate itself.
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about real estate sites and available
buildings as site selection data elements
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area
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