Economic Development in

your community

Have Your Sites

Ready!

To be successful in recruiting business,

communities must be able to propose locations
that can be considered when companies are
searching. Well help you achieve success in
your

economic

development

initiative by

assisting in the identification of the properties

within your community that represent potential
locations for non-residential development.

Through the performance of a thorough

Bearing Resources was founded by Michael

evaluation process, well ascertain a sites

Trotter whose twenty-two year career at

attributes critical for development. Information

Duke Energy Corporation

such

as

propertys

access,

encompassed

exposure,

service in Dukes Economic Development

surrounding land uses, ownership, the existence

organization as well as managing Dukes

of any right of ways, floodplain and streams,

relationship

topography, etc. are evaluated.

corporations.

with

several

Fortune

500

Data Collection

Site A
Wt. Appraisal Score

Similar to the analysis conducted when

companies decide on a location, well
gather data utilizing your communitys
GIS

system

to

obtain

important

information such as a propertys

access, exposure, surrounding land
uses, ownership, the existence of any

Access
Exposure
Surroundings
# of Land Owners
ROWs, Streams, Floodplain
Miscellaneous
Topography

5
4
4
4
3
2
1

5
4
5
3
3
4
5

right of ways, floodplain and streams,

topography

and

other

Ranking

Evaluation

25
20
20
12
9
12
15
113

Site B
Appraisal Score
3
3
4
3
3
2
3

15
15
20
15
15
10
15
105

Once data has been collected, the

sites are then ranked.

This

listing of the properties will

assist in the determination of
where

development

occur.

important

information that should be evaluated

prior to developing a site.

Bearing Resources, Inc.

Phone 803-984-5242
motrotter@comporium.net
2915 Sliding Rock Trail
Fort Mill, SC 29708

We help your community be prepared

Site A
Site B
Site C
Site D
Site E
Site F
Site G

Score
113
105
90
77
60
55
48

should