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How To Use Eti Place-Of-Work And Purchasing Power Drill Downs: Drill Downs For The Burleigh Main Street Project, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
How To Use Eti Place-Of-Work And Purchasing Power Drill Downs: Drill Downs For The Burleigh Main Street Project, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
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Commercial districts across the United States are attempting to expand retail activity and employment in targeted city neighborhoods. This paper presents a prototype drilldown for measuring retail strengths of under-served central city areas. Two sets of drill downs were developed using state-of-the-art methodologies to meet the needs of business owners, community agencies, and academics in assessing the existing and potential retail market of individual neighborhoods. ETI Purchasing Power Profiles detail the annual expenditures of residents in each neighborhood for 16 major categories of consumer expenditures, utilizing a unique methodology developed by the Employment and Training Institute. The profiles were initially …