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°SOUTH 5' � \'; Department of :�' '..,° Community Investment Memorandum Thursday,January 17, 2013 TO: South Bend Redevelopment Commission FROM: Bill Schalliol SUBJECT: Professional Service Agreement - Buxton -Scout Renewal In June of 2010, the Redevelopment Commission entered into a contract with the Buxton Corporation to perform a three component retail study project. The first component updated the 2006 CommunitylD study and specifically restudied the downtown study node (Michigan-Jefferson) and a new node at LaSalle Square. The second component of the project was to complete a grocery saturation study. The purpose of the study was to identify all grocery locations within the county and then create a thematic map that showed over and under saturation of grocery store access that exists within the county. The third component of the project was the integration of all past and current data into the Buxton Scout program. The program is a web based data warehouse with a mapping feature that allows the user to gather site distance information, create location maps and warehouse retailer information that is relevant to the site matches of the study nodes. The Scout program allows for the user to complete a variety of new tasks such as a new specific site study, retailer profiling against a proposed user, and many other search features. This new tool allows for a broader access to all of the Buxton retail clients versus just those that are on the match list and provided to the City within Scout. The Commission and the City have been clients with Buxton since 2005. Buxton has assisted the City with retail planning and study and the match services have yielded specific results on the Ireland Road corridor with Texas Roadhouse and have provided supplemental data to retailers in other locations. The Scout program allows more on- the-fly analysis and research and has great application potential for the downtown and other points of retail study around the City. The Commission has been under contract with Buxton for the Scout program since 2011 and staff is seeking funding for calendar year 2013. The total amount of the contract is $15,000.00 and staff is requesting to find this contract from the South Side Development Area TIF budget. Staff would request approval of this proposal. 227 W. JEFFERSON BLVD. SOUTH BEND, IN 46601 I P: 574-235-9371 I FAX: 574-235-9021 I SOUTHBENDIN.GOV