site selection data standards:

. . . the identity of a set of location data categories and elements available as a data standards spreadsheet from the website of the International Economic Development Council. The following paragraph is quoted from the website:

For communities to attract new facilities in today’s highly competitive environment, they need reliable, comprehensive data that can be quickly provided to corporate location professionals. Economic development professionals working collaboratively with corporate relocation professionals have devised a comprehensive site selection data template to guide communities with data collection, analysis and delivery . . . (more)

The IEDC Site Selection Data Standards serve as a template. Development of the spreadsheet and its availability attests to the importance of the site selection process to economic development. The following articles are made available here from the site selection section of the Enterprise & Economic Development Library.

Getting Started: Putting Together the Site Selection Data Standards

Data Standards Guidelines: What They're About, and What They're NOT About.

As a generic phrase, site selection data standards refers to any set of selection criteria that reveals commonly recognized elements not associated with a specific project. As location data suppliers, especially those representing locations seeking enterprise and economic development, organize information in advance of dealing with specific prospects it makes sense that they would be familiar with the basic elements of site selection criteria.

Toward Site Selection Data Standards: Good Business for Economic Developers
by Jay Garner

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For communities to attract new facilities in today’s highly competitive environment, they need reliable, comprehensive data that can be quickly provided to corporate location professionals. Economic development professionals working collaboratively with corporate relocation professionals have devised a comprehensive site selection data template to guide communities with data collection, analysis and delivery. The end goal: to adopt the template as the industry standard for the site selection process.

define community

define facility

define data

define corporate

define location

define economic developer

define profession

define site selection data

define site selection process

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