Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade

Colorado Prospector

Colorado Prospector is a business development tool that makes powerful information and technology for site selectors and businesses just a mouse-click away.  The site gives Colorado a highly adaptable, on-line platform from which OEDIT can continue to add information and new technologies in the coming months and years.  The website is an important first step that will enable Colorado to compete for businesses and jobs in the digital age.

Site Features
Colorado is the first state in the nation to implement a ground-breaking new Geographic Information System (GIS) query function that enables businesses and other users to search for communities statewide based on demographic and geographic characteristics. A user enters desired characteristics such as population, employment data, educational attainment, income, or availability of higher education or transportation criteria.  The website's GIS application then returns every community in the state that matches those parameters.  Businesses can then explore these communities with a variety of dynamic GIS mapping tools. 

Colorado Prospector speeds up and simplifies the process of business attraction and site selection for expanding and relocating businesses by providing instant information tailored to their specific needs that would normally take weeks to collect and thousands of dollars to obtain.

Primary features include:

  • Efficiently answering the main questions that businesses have when they are doing site selection analysis such as unique geographic characteristics and advantages, demographics, potential business synergies, industry-specific opportunities and overall business climate. 
  • Businesses and site selectors can explore Colorado's communities in remarkable detail by using Geographic Information System (GIS) maps and query tools to analyze business and demographic data and identify infrastructure, geographical characteristics and important landmarks.
  • A proprietary site selection application allows users to establish precise parameters for the property they need and within days receive information on real estate that meets their specific requirements.
  • Colorado counties and cities, who may not be able to afford their own website, have the opportunity to market their community on coloradoprospects.com.