Teamwork Arkansas Services: Community Resource Center

• Research:

Accurate research and reliable information are critical to both economic developers and the prospects they are recruiting. Outfitted with a state-of-the-art information system, Teamwork Arkansas’ Community Resource Center (CRC) gathers and distributes data on local Arkansas communities, industries and targeted business prospects. Information available in the CRC helps support Teamwork Arkansas’ business recruiters, community leaders, economic developers and government agencies who are bringing new jobs to Arkansas.

Example of CRC Assistance:

• Demographic and marketplace data and analysis
• Comprehensive, statewide commercial and industrial properties inventory

• Business listings in an area

• GIS Mapping

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared. Specific research and maps may be furnished upon request by contacting the Community Resource Center manager.

• Marketing Assistance:

The Community Resource Center also assists local communities in their targeted recruitment efforts by preparing marketing information specific to the community and its resources and facilities.

One of the more unique marketing tools that the CRC uses is mapping capabilities of the GIS software. The center can prepare individual site maps, industrial park maps and city/state maps to be used in marketing materials. The CRC also will help develop professional project proposals for community prospects.

Additionally, the CRC has helped many communities prepare PowerPoint presentations for various purposes. The center also helps develop additional presentation materials for the local economic developer, such as poster-size maps of industrial parks, project proposals to prospects and any other projects that would require a professional package to be developed.