Location services for high-stakes business decisions. SITE helps companies analyze labor, supply chain, operating costs, incentives, retail networks, and market risk before they commit capital.

SITE helps clients move from a broad set of possible locations to a defensible shortlist and final recommendation. The work connects business objectives, operating requirements, labor needs, cost exposure, logistics, market validation, and leadership decision support.

• Location strategy framework
• Market shortlist
• Decision criteria
• Executive recommendation

Location risk is often buried inside assumptions. SITE evaluates where a market may look attractive but create problems after opening, including wage escalation, thin labor pools, weak access, local market saturation, infrastructure concerns, or poor operating fit.

• Risk summary
• Issue flags
• Market comparison
• Mitigation considerations

SITE creates customized scoring models built around the client’s operation. Markets are compared using consistent criteria so leadership can see which locations are strongest, which are weaker, and why.

• Scoring model
• Market ranking
• Comparative matrix
• Selection rationale

SITE translates analysis into leadership ready materials. The goal is to help executives understand the decision, the tradeoffs, the remaining risks, and the evidence behind the recommendation.

• Executive report
• Presentation deck
• Decision summary
• Recommendation support

SITE evaluates whether a market can support the workforce a company needs. This includes workforce depth, relevant occupations, talent pipelines, unemployment conditions, labor force participation, commute patterns, and direct competition from employers seeking the same workers.

• Labor availability analysis
• Occupation analysis
• Labor shed review
• Hiring risk findings

Wage assumptions drive long term operating cost. SITE compares wage requirements across candidate markets and evaluates whether the company’s pay strategy is likely to attract the necessary workforce without creating avoidable cost exposure.

• Wage benchmarking
• Compensation comparison
• Cost exposure review
• Wage pressure findings

A strong location can help a company stand out in the labor market. SITE evaluates where the client may be better positioned to attract workers, retain talent, reduce backfills, and compete for labor without overpaying.

• Employer positioning review
• Recruiting friction assessment
• Retention risk analysis
• Labor competitiveness findings

A market can have a large labor pool and still be difficult to hire in if too many employers compete for the same workers. SITE evaluates competitive intensity and saturation risk so clients do not mistake labor volume for actual labor availability.

• Competitor inventory
• Saturation review
• Hiring pressure assessment
• Market activity findings

SITE uses GIS to show how labor, customers, suppliers, competitors, transportation assets, education resources, and real estate options relate to each other geographically. This helps clients see patterns that are difficult to understand in tables alone.

• GIS maps
• Drive time analysis
• Labor shed maps
• Spatial decision exhibits

SITE evaluates the market characteristics that influence business opportunity, workforce availability, customer demand, and long term growth. This can support retail, service, health care, branch network, and broader location strategy decisions.

• Demographic profile
• Demand analysis
• Growth trends
• Market opportunity findings

SITE evaluates how geography affects access, cost, service levels, response times, distribution reach, and operating efficiency. This can include center of gravity analysis, customer coverage, supplier access, and distance based tradeoffs.

• Customer proximity analysis
• Supplier geography review
• Coverage maps
• Access findings

For retail, branch, and network decisions, SITE evaluates how new, relocated, consolidated, or closed locations may affect the existing network. The goal is to distinguish true growth opportunity from sales transfer or market overlap.

• Cannibalization review
• Trade area overlap
• Network coverage analysis
• Impact summary

SITE evaluates how location affects recurring logistics performance. For manufacturing, distribution, service, and customer support operations, the wrong market can create long term freight, access, and service level penalties.

• Supply chain review
• Transportation access analysis
• Customer reach findings
• Logistics risk summary

A site decision changes the cost structure of an operation. SITE compares major recurring cost categories so clients can understand the true operating impact of each candidate market, not just the initial real estate cost.

• Cost comparison
• Recurring cost model
• Cost driver findings
• Market cost summary

SITE evaluates whether the broader market environment supports the client’s operation. This includes economic development capacity, training resources, permitting responsiveness, tax and regulatory context, and general business support.

• Business climate review
• Tax and regulatory context
• Community support assessment
• Market fit findings

SITE does not evaluate real estate in isolation. Candidate buildings or sites are reviewed against the operating requirements and market analytics so clients understand whether the real estate option actually fits the business need.

• Site screening support
• Building context review
• Access and utility considerations
• Operating fit summary

SITE validates the short list through recruiter interviews, employer discussions, wage checks, economic development conversations, staffing agency input, market activity review, and local intelligence. This is the due diligence many consultants skip.

• Validation findings
• Interview summaries
• Wage checks
• Market reality assessment

Market tours help test the analysis in person. SITE supports the process by helping structure what to look for, who to meet, what questions to ask, and how to translate observations into decision support.

• Tour agenda support
• Question framework
• Market scorecards
• Tour findings

The quality of local support can matter during startup and long term operations. SITE evaluates whether communities have the relationships, resources, and responsiveness needed to support the client’s project.

• Community assessment
• Economic development review
• Workforce partner summary
• Support capability findings

SITE helps identify incentive opportunities and supports the client’s understanding of how incentives fit within the broader business case. Incentives are evaluated as part of the decision, not as a substitute for market fit.

• Incentive opportunity review
• Program summary
• Negotiation support
• Business case context

Manufacturing location decisions require a careful review of skilled labor, infrastructure, utility capacity, supplier access, transportation, permitting, training resources, incentives, and long term operating cost.

• Manufacturing market analysis
• Utility and infrastructure review
• Supplier and labor findings
• Site recommendation support

Distribution projects require analysis of customer coverage, highway access, freight efficiency, labor scalability, real estate availability, and speed to market. SITE helps clients compare those tradeoffs across candidate locations.

• Distribution market review
• Freight and access analysis
• Labor scalability findings
• Coverage analysis

Office and headquarters decisions depend on talent, executive access, airport connectivity, livability, business climate, cost, brand fit, and long term workforce strategy.

• Office market analysis
• Talent review
• Access and livability findings
• Executive decision support

Shared services operations require scalable labor, wage competitiveness, strong education pipelines, manageable attrition, commute access, and a market that supports process oriented work.

• Shared services market analysis
• Labor and wage review
• Attrition risk assessment
• Shortlist recommendation

Contact center decisions depend heavily on labor availability, wage competitiveness, language skills, customer service talent, schedule fit, commute access, and turnover risk.

• Contact center labor analysis
• Wage comparison
• Competition review
• Hiring risk findings

SITE evaluates where retail demand exists, how customers are distributed, what competition is present, how trade areas overlap, and where new or repositioned locations may create opportunity.

• Retail demand analysis
• Trade area review
• Competitive mapping
• Opportunity findings

SITE supports branch and network decisions by evaluating customer geography, market coverage, overlap, competition, accessibility, consolidation risk, and white space opportunity.

• Branch network analysis
• Market coverage review
• Overlap assessment
• Optimization findings

SITE evaluates markets for specialized health care and life sciences operations where patient or member geography, clinical support labor, regulatory context, skill availability, and service access matter.

• Health care market analysis
• Specialized labor review
• Patient or member geography
• Location risk findings