For business improvement districts
Know whether your district is working.
Is our district becoming more or less economically active, and why?
A business improvement district lives or dies on whether the place is working. MIQ Studio builds the market profiles a prospective retailer asks for, the reports your members want, and the monthly board dashboard. It also lets you benchmark your district against comparable districts elsewhere.
Retail and business recruitment
- Create market profiles for prospective retailers and restaurants.
- Show daytime population, workers, residents, demographics and market characteristics.
- Identify business categories that look underrepresented for a district of this profile.
- Prepare leasing and recruitment materials that a broker will actually use.
Member services
- Give local businesses reports about the market immediately around them.
- Produce corridor and neighborhood profiles a business can use.
- Answer the questions members actually ask.
Comparing your district against others
- Benchmark your district against comparable districts in other cities.
- Understand what a district with the profile you want looks like, and how far you are from it.
- Support a case to funders using evidence from districts that did the same thing first.
Board reporting
A monthly district health dashboard: business openings and closures, employment conditions, development activity. Strategic plan KPIs, refreshed on the cycle.
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The use cases behind this work.
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