Silverlode provides comprehensive assistance to companies considering new facilities throughout North America. Our site selection and location analysis clients range in size from Fortune 10 companies to family owned businesses. Our project portfolio spans many industry sectors, and includes a new global headquarters for a top computer manufacturer, major automotive assembly plants in the Southeast and Mexico, and numerous back office operations throughout the United States.
Leveraging our experience as site selectors, Silverlode’s expanded service offerings now features a Site Selection Simulation. This service offers economic development organizations a cost effective method to improve the competitive positioning of their communities when responding to project inquiries. Silverlode conducts the Site Selection Simulation exercise as though it were an active project. Key elements of the Site Selection Simulation include the following:
- Issue detailed Request For Information
- Conduct 2-day site visit
- Evaluate & plot responses to twelve location factors on Silverlode’s Economic Development Readiness Matrix®
- Provide in-depth report & feedback on the quality of community responses
Some of the benefits include:
- Receive objective, professional feedback on strengths/weaknesses
- Increase your ability to respond quickly & accurately to site inquiries
- Learn where to find data & how to use it more effectively
Here’s what some of our clients had to say…
“The Silverlode report provided many useful recommendations on how to improve Dillon County’s marketability. They are laid out clearly and concisely so that each Economic Developer could easily format a checklist, or compile a printout, that can be used for prospect presentations. Well worth the time, effort and expense.”
Dave Bailey
Executive Director
Dillon County Dev., SC
“The experience of pulling together information to address a specific project’s requirements was very valuable. I now have a frame of reference to draw upon when I think about the information prospects consider when making a decision regarding land, buildings or a community.”
Karen Mauch
Economic Development Director
New Bremen, OH
