Outer space for the inner city
24 Sep 2009 - Tom Mulligan and Matthew Gryczan | Rapid Growth Media
LISC Grand Rapids launches its new website, outerspacegr.org, which provides market data and targeted demographics on 11 commercial districts surrounding the core city. Tom Pfister, LISC program manager and Jake Cowan, business manager for LISC MetroEdge of Chicago and facilitator for the study are both quoted.
Grand Rapids has been invaded by something from Outer Space, but there's no need to be alarmed.
It comes in peace and has a lot of knowledge to share -- for free -- with humans who want to launch a store, restaurant or other commercial venture in metro Grand Rapids.
Anyone who has access to the Internet can now call up data in the newly launched Outer Space website on 11 commercial districts surrounding the core city that gives targeted demographics that a business person normally would pay for in a marketing study. Continued [+]...
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