Grocery Market Assessment Services

The vendor required to provide grocery market assessment study services for include:
- Data collection
•    Preparation of collect demographic, economic, mobility, geospatial, and retail data relevant to city and the surrounding region.
•    The city’s comprehensive plan, zoning, infrastructure plans, economic development strategies, and other relevant documents.
- Grocery operator inventory
•    Review strengths and weaknesses of each in terms of opening a new store in city. 
•    Determine preferred grocery operator(s). 
•    Identify barriers to these companies and recommend steps to address them.
- Demand and leakage and feasibility modelling
•    Conduct demand and expenditure analysis and calculate supportable square footage for various grocery formats for two to five priority primary sites.
- Community engagement (optional)
•    Provide and analyze survey information and hold and summarize stakeholder interviews.
- Presentation of study results to city council
•    Results to be presented at a city council work session.

- Virtual Pre-Submittal Conference Date: January 8, 2026
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 16, 2026