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Powerful New Online Data Tool Promotes Eastern Ontario to Investors

Find the best location for your business in eastern Ontario with the Ontario East Economic Development Commission's powerful new mapping tool.

Alissa Sklar
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on July 20, 2021
Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Finding the best location for your business in eastern Ontario is now much easier to do, thanks to the Ontario East Economic Development Commission's powerful new mapping tool.

Ontario East site selection web tool

The user-friendly interactive tool combines robust location, demographic, business, and economic data to serve as a primary resource for business recruitment, expansion, and retention. It is powered by GIS Planning's industry-leading ZoomProspector software. 

“This tool will help us ensure that our member's prime available employment properties can be discovered and explored by both new businesses seeking an Ontario East location or an existing one looking to expand,” said Chris KIng, CEO, Quinte Economic Development Commission and President, Ontario East Economic Development Commission Board of Directors, noting also “this addition to our investment attraction toolbox greatly enhances our member communities ability to showcase the opportunities and advantages of eastern Ontario as a strategic business location.”

This new web resource is not just a searchable properties database - it's also an intuitive, robust location analysis tool. The Ontario East Economic Development Commission, along with local communities, businesses, listing agents and other community stakeholders can take advantage of this user-friendly building and sites database to promote available properties in the region while also featuring key data on variables such as consumer spending, labour force and demographics.

The Ontario East web tool couples these listings and layers with additional proprietary data sources like Environics Analytics (using Statistics Canada data and projections), Emsi, and DataAxle (formerly InfoGroup Canada). Some key unique features include:

  1. DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS: Visitors can research labour force, population, educational levels and even employee types by distance or radius from a selected property, or even a pin on the map and export the information in ready-to-go reports. 
  2. BUSINESS REPORTS: The business database can help identify industry clusters and potential customers, competitors and suppliers. An excellent resource as well for retail site locations! 
  3. COMMUNITY PROFILES: Community-specific data sets can be seen for all jurisdictions within the region and provides information on transportation resources, consumer spending and identifies the quality of life amenities like housing costs.

"Being able to offer employers important information on the economic advantages of the region when they are looking to expand into Ontario East is a key component of our new investment attraction strategy" explains Jay Amer, Executive Director, Ontario East Economic Development Commission and President, Amer & Associates Economic Development. 

"This new resource, when combined with the expertise and direct knowledge our members have about their communities will allow businesses in all sectors to make informed decisions on site selection in this growing region of opportunity."

ABOUT ONTARIO EAST 

The Ontario East Economic Development Commission (Ontario East) was established over 30 years ago as a non-profit regional marketing agency with a mandate to develop, implement and administer programs to attract new investment and jobs to its diverse group of communities located in a market accessible region of Ontario, Canada's largest province in size and economy. Ontario East membership comprises professional economic developers and associated organizations, government officials and businesses representing cities, towns and regions throughout eastern Ontario, comprising the region east of the Greater Toronto Area to the Québec border near Montreal and north to Algonquin Park.  For more information about the many opportunities in Ontario East, please visit OntarioEast.ca

To learn more about business expansion or relocation opportunities in the Ontario East region, please contact:

Jay Amer Ec.D.
Executive Director
Ontario East Economic Development Commission 
623 Fortune Crescent, Suite 100
Kingston ON K7P 0L5
 

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