Optimal Business Location
Project to find optimal location for a homeless and employment resource center in Edmonton, Alberta
Year
2025
Scope
Spatial Business Analysis
Client
SAIT School Project
The purpose of this project was to find the optimal location to place a new homeless and employment resource center in Edmonton, Alberta. To do so we ran a number of different spatial analysis on data at the neighborhood level, combining the results into a scoring index to determine which neighborhood was the best fit.
Parameters Analyzed
Locations of reported homeless encampments
Unemployment rate by neighborhood
Walking distance to nearest existing resource center
Walking distance to LRT stations
Types of Analysis
Cluster and Hotspot analysis on encampments per neighborhood, as well as unemployment rate
Network Analysis to create walking distance buffers from nearest facilities/LRT stations
