LDA is a market based consultancy which provides a variety of affordable, transformative real estate location intelligence services that benefit private as well as public sector clients.

Private Sector Services

Our primary Target User Groups include multi unit retail and restaurant owners, franchisors, and small business owners whose future success may depend, to a large extent, on being able to both identify and secure “Home Run” locations.

Working as a consultant in the private sector, Location Decision Advisors uses its hands on experience and expertise to provide retail and restaurant clients with the following specialized services:

  • Developing site selection criteria, standards, and guidelines
  • Demographics and Psychographics guidance
  • Design, administration, and evaluation of customer surveys
  • Customer spotting maps
  • Trade area analyses
  • Market penetration and expansion strategies
  • Competition studies
  • Zoning assistance
  • Site selection training
  • Seminars
  • Site Visits & Analysis
  • Mobile workshops
  • Writing and negotiating Letters of Intent
  • Lease reviews and negotiations
  • Field and research based second opinions
  • Sales forecasting
  • Coaching

Noteworthy Quote

“You need to focus your efforts, your energy, and your money on finding only one type of location – the ‘Home Run.'”

Public Sector Services

LDA also uses its hands on experience and expertise to assist clients in urban, suburban, and non metropolitan communities by offering the following consulting services:

  • Highest and best use studies
  • Business district and shopping center audits
  • Field trips
  • Mobile workshops
  • Retreats
  • Visioning and planning for commercial district growth and revitalization
  • Prospecting for, as well as attracting, new retailers and restaurants
  • Site and development plan reviews
  • Developer solicitation

Working closely with staff, local elected and appointed officials, local residents, local business owners, local property owners, and developers, our goal is to facilitate the creation of vibrant, synergistic business clusters which help foster not only additional retail and restaurant investment, but, result in both increased daytime and nighttime consumer spending as well as tax base enhancement.