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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting — August 9, 2011 <br />profile information. At the completion of the <br />study, all of the information was plugged into <br />the Buxton Scout program for use and <br />application. <br />The second component was to complete a <br />grocery saturation study to identify all <br />grocery locations within the community and <br />then create a thematic map that showed <br />where there was over saturation and under <br />saturation of grocery stores: then, what sites <br />might be warrant consideration for a grocery <br />store. Currently, a downtown study for <br />grocery stores is being completed, as is a <br />study in the northwest part of the county <br />around the Huttsfield Square development <br />site. <br />The third component of the project was the <br />integration of all past and current data into <br />the Buxton Scout program. The program is a <br />web -based data warehouse with a mapping <br />feature that allows the user to gather site <br />distance information, create location maps <br />and warehouse retailer information that <br />would be relevant to the site matches of the <br />study nodes. As staff has continued to use <br />the Scout tool, we have determined that we <br />are in need of the Scout power user upgrade <br />to get more "bang for the buck" from the <br />program. <br />The Scout power use upgrade allows the user <br />to complete a variety of new tasks that the <br />City presently has to have Buxton perform, <br />such as a new specific site study and retailer <br />profiling against a proposed user. This new <br />tool allows broader access to all of the <br />Buxton retail clients, versus just those that <br />are on the match list and provided to the City <br />within Scout. The program will also create <br />consumer propensity reports and retail <br />10 <br />