Sarah Parrish, City of San Mateo

Explore... San Mateo

Explore... San Mateo is a GIS application available on the City of San Mateo website at www.cityofsanmateo.org. The application is designed to provide site-selection assistance to businesses through a comprehensive database of information. Users can look up commercial property information and/or query for available commercial space in San Mateo. The underlying database links together data from several sources allowing available site information entered by brokers (size, address, lease price/term, broker to contact) to be linked to building and parcel data, maps, photographs, business lists, demographic and consumer expenditure reports, and commercial area descriptions and economic statistics.


Need for Information

Today's dynamic economy has created challenges in San Mateo's commercial real estate market. San Mateo has seen many successful start-up businesses grow rapidly and run out of space, often forced to leave the city to find more space elsewhere in the Bay Area. Rising rents has also had significant impacts for Mom-and-Pop businesses. At the same time that San Mateo is experiencing these trends, forecasts are predicting a rise in vacancies for certain office/commercial niches.

Explore... San Mateo provides a variety of information on available commercial space in the City. As an Internet application, businesses can utilize this powerful tool to find the best location for their business and staff can use this tool to assist businesses remain economically viable in San Mateo.

Program Technology

Explore... San Mateo is a GIS-based commercial property database that runs on . The underlying database behind the Explore... San Mateo application is a customized MSAccess database that links all the various in-house and purchased databases together through a series of correspondence tables. When updated data is available from each source, this information can be uploaded into the application.


http://gisweb.ci.sanmateo.ca.us
Sarah Parrish, Economic Development Specialist, City of San Mateo parrish@ci.sanmateo.ca.us
Cheryl Parker, Consultant, Urban Explorer urban_explorer@hotmail.com
Pablo Monzon, Consultant, GIS Planning monzon@gisplanning.com