Quest provides economic development consulting services to state and local economic development organizations as well as utility providers, developers, and private landowners across the country. Leveraging our site selection experience allows Quest to bring a relevant perspective to our economic development clients.
Our site analysis services include:
PROPERTY PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT
Evaluates a community’s available (and potentially available) properties’ strengths and weaknesses to identify any product inadequacies and help prioritize properties.
QUICK ASSESS
Allows for a high-level review of a property before large amounts of time, effort, and money is spent on developing the property and/or pursuing evaluation and certification.
EVALUATION
Identifies strengths and weaknesses of a property while reviewing an array of factors such as ownership/control, zoning, transportation, and utilities. During an evaluation, Quest will inspect the proposed property, including reviewing any due diligence performed and conducting a site visit.
CERTIFICATION
Delves into the property in much more detail by requiring engineered plans, environmental studies, etc. Once the applicant has completed all the certification requirements, Quest certifies that the property is ready for development, enhancing the marketability of the site, and improving the community’s inventory of industrial properties.
SCOPE
Develop construction estimates for layouts customized for each property utilizing Quest’s strategic partner’s (O’Neal Inc.) proprietary SCOPE technology.
SITE-SPECIFIC WORKFORCE ANALYSIS
Provides detailed characteristics of the current and future workforce, informing current and future prospect’s comprehensive evaluation of the site.
Other Services:
RFI AND/OR SITE VISIT REPORT CARD
Provides feedback on team’s performance with completing RFI and/or site visit.
TRAINING
Available for economic development staff or their partners on a number of topics such as general practices do’s and don’ts or completing RFIs.
SPEAKING AND PRESENTATIONS
Quest staff is available to speak on a variety of topics and can customize presentations to your audience’s needs.
"The certification process certainly has made us very aware of why having a site certified is so valuable. Just having all of this done ahead of time is immensely valuable to a company looking to locate a new facility. It has provided us with an enormous amount of information about the site that just looks like any other farm field!"
