For business districts, BIDs, CDCs and main-street programs

Your district's numbers, sourced to the line

Funders, boards and city councils all ask a district for the same thing: numbers about its own streets, with sources they can trust. A Corridor Read gives you those numbers, measured as close to your own boundary as public data allows, and written so you can put them straight into grants, plans and board reports.

See a complete Corridor Read. Ten pages on Central Germantown, Philadelphia: who lives nearby, the jobs, the business mix, lending at corridor addresses, how it compares with similar corridors, and paragraphs ready to use.

Prepared independently, without input from or payment by any Germantown organization.

Read the sample

What a Corridor Read covers

  • Who lives within a ten-minute walk, the jobs nearby, and how both have changed
  • Which kinds of businesses grew and which thinned out, compared with the city
  • SBA-backed lending matched to your district's own addresses
  • How you compare with similar corridors, chosen by a stated rule
  • Paragraphs ready to use in a grant, a plan or a board report, with every figure sourced on one page

How it works

1You confirm your boundary. That's the only input we need from you.
2We build the read on that boundary, down to the street address where the data allows, and check every figure.
3We walk you through it, and you decide where each number goes.

Delivered within 10 business days. For smaller organizations, a shorter Corridor Snapshot; for your members, Customer Portraits of individual businesses, built from the same data. See all our reports.

Get the full Corridor Read for your district

Write to info@bwimpact.org. If you received a preview from us, mention the reference code printed on it.

We'll set up a short call to confirm your boundary and talk through what your district needs the numbers for.