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Liberty Lake weighs data-driven economic development strategy, Placer AI pilot
Summary
City staff proposed preparing a formal local economic development strategy and presented Placer AI location-data tools as a potential subscription resource; council asked for more vendor comparisons and deferred any decision.
Liberty Lake city staff asked the City Council on May 6 to begin preparing a formal local economic development strategy and to consider licensing location-analytics software to support targeted business recruitment, event analysis and tax-revenue forecasting.
The request centered on two points: adopt a council-led framework for an economic development strategy tied to the city’s Comprehensive Plan and Strategic Plan, and consider a subscription to Placer AI, a location-analytics platform that provides anonymized mobile-device visit data. "We need to schedule some time as a body to get together and start preparing and implementing that local economic development strategy," a staff member said during the workshop presentation.
Staff emphasized the…
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