The Location One Information System (LOIS)

The EDC is now employing the Location One Information System. This centralized database provides the real estate professional, site location consultant, or business executive the ability to conduct real time on-line searches for sites and buildings in McLean County.

To attract new companies in today's highly competitive environment, economic development professionals need to maintain reliable, comprehensive data that is easily and quickly accessible. LOIS is an online searchable database designed specifically for organizations performing economic development activities. It provides data on demographic and economic profiles for states, counties, and communities along with detailed information about their available sites and buildings. Over 2,800 communities and 6,000 available properties are listed throughout an eight-state area on the system. All of the data on LOIS can be printed in PDF or HTML format or downloaded into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, thus facilitating a variety of options for analyzing a location.

The unique features of LOIS:

• A single database that promotes collaboration between economic developers and local real estate offices.
• Allows for easy addition, editing, and deletion of site content for localities, sites, and buildings.
• Customizable – insert organization title, choose text styles and colors, and add a logo or banner.
• Ability to place a link on economic developer's web site that will list the sites and buildings for a specific county or locality.

Local McLean County real estate brokers and realtors can contact the EDC to include their properties in the system. The EDC will give you all the information you need to get your property on-line in this unique system. The LOIS database is free to anyone in McLean County. Contact us now to get your property listed.