• Is an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping program that provides enhanced economic development and site selection services to the business community
• Allows users to search for available commercial buildings and sites as well as generate site-specific demographic and business analysis reports
• Speeds up and simplifies the process of finding the optimal location for a business by providing public access to a range of valuable information
WhatcomProspector.com establishes a GIS-based Regional Site Selector website which allows citizens and businesses access to available commercial properties, business locations, land based GIS information, and demographic and market information. The site leverages the community's existing investments in GIS to foster economic development, empower developers and investors with information, and improve regional economic development capacity. The project is organized and managed by the Port of Bellingham.
Any commercial broker, property owner, developer, or similar real estate entity can list available commercial, industrial or retail property for sale or lease. There is no cost to participate. WhatcomProspector.com serves as a free, dynamic and comprehensive listing system for brokers and interested companies. With their informed list of leads, website visitors can contact the respective brokers directly about specific properties. WhatcomProspector.com promotes the properties listed by real estate professionals and provides critical business data and detailed local incentive and land use information, giving enormous exposure to listed properties and real estate brokerage firms at no cost.
Listing properties is as easy as 1-2-3:
The real estate professional goes to the Add Properties link on the home page and clicks on the Access Request link to obtain an individual, secure, company log-in, and password.
The company's designated listing administrator enters data directly into a user-friendly form.
Users can instantly see all data entered on the property including available square feet, rates, photographs, and other information entered by the company. The contact information, which is entered by the real estate professional, accompanies each property listing.
Commercial real estate professionals can update their data on a real-time basis, thereby enabling up-to-date current property data. Demographic data, consumer expenditure data, business and workforce data will all be updated yearly providing the most current information available. Some data will be updated on a more frequent basis to maintain integrity of the information on the website.
