Site Selection Services

     The purpose of this service is to help solve the common pain point of finding desirable commercial land buried under a sea of parcels, unstandardized P&Z regulations, and irrelevant listings. It delivers a clean starting pool of sites that meet the initial criteria, pulled from all parcels in the target area, and presents them as simple, mobile friendly web maps.

     For locations worth pursuing, additional analysis can be provided, also in mobile-friendly map format, to help clarify target audience, demand potential, and development constraints like wetlands or separation requirements from nearby structures or zoning designations. Partial demonstrations are available below, no scheduling needed.

     This service complements predictive platforms by addressing a key limitation of AI: interpreting local zoning and entitlement data that is unstructured, inconsistent, and spread across more than 35,000 US jurisdictions. It helps bridge the gap between pattern recognition and regulatory reality.

Search Demonstration:

Multifamily Land Search Demo

Intended Land Use:
• Apartments or Townhouses

Territory:
• All of Palm Beach County, FL
(40 Jurisdictions)

Preliminary Site Criteria:
• Median HH Inc > $60k
• Bld Value < $2 mill
• Acres > 1

Potential Entry Points: 80

For demonstration purposes, the scope was limited to: unincorporated areas within the FLU Entry Points and Potential Assemblage layers. It does include all 40 PBC jurisdictions within Zoning Entry Points layer.

The final stage of the filtering workflow involved manually removing locations based on qualitative issues and site characteristics that are difficult to filter out through automation alone. Planned Development (PD) designations were intentionally excluded.

Data sources: Palm Beach County property appraiser and P&Z data as of August 2024, and the 2020 U.S. Census.

Site Analysis Demonstration:

Partial Site Analysis Demo

Location:
• Parcel 0263900060 St. Johns County, FL

     For demonstration purposes, the scope was limited to: the subject parcel, assemblage parcels under common ownership, QL1 Lidar, wetlands, soils, DRI boundaries, AADT, and 2020 Census demographic data (block group and 3-mile median income estimates). Parcel details have been consolidated for easier review, with multiple links included. The wetland and soil layers include calculated acreage for each feature within the parcel boundary.

     This site was selected for partial analysis after standing out in the Northeast Region heat map (linked further down this page). It’s in a desirable area with an estimated median household income of ~$110K, and is surrounded by a high concentration of Residential, Commercial, Retail, and Mixed-Use DRIs, as well as developer-held lands. Because of its visible development constraints, this site is a useful example for highlighting the custom layers included.

     A 3D site view is available through a Google Earth link in the parcel’s table. Mobile users will need the Google Earth app installed to use this optional feature. Tap the blue “Explore Earth” button once the link opens.

Data sources: St. John's County property appraiser and P&Z data as of 5 2025, the 2020 U.S. Census, Q2 2021 DRI data from the University of Florida's GeoPlan Center, Wetland data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as of 10 2023, soils data from Natural Resource Conservation Service as of 2 2025, and FDOT traffic counts as of 1 2025.

FL Regions Heat Maps:

A Florida regions median household income heat map series.

An interactive mobile web map series that also contains AADT and DRI data. These maps could potentially assist land investors in their early stages of exploration across the state of Florida, or simply serve as engaging content.

Southeast Region
Southwest Region
Central East Region
Central Region
Central West Region
Northeast Region

Next:

North Central Region
Northwest Region
Keys Region

Layers:
• Median household income > $70k
(as a heatmap @ 3 mile scale)
(note: the maps open @ 3 mile scale)
• 2 layers of DRIs by type:
1) Res, Comm, Retail, & Multi-Use
2) Ind & Power
• 2 layers of FDOT AADT trip counts:
1) 40k-60k
2) 60k+
• City/Municipal jurisdictions

Data sources: 2020 U.S. Census, Jan 2025 FDOT traffic counts, and Q2 2021 DRI data from the University of Florida's GeoPlan Center.

Privacy:

Spotter CRE LLC provides private, early-stage site selection and analysis results through standalone, interactive web maps. None of the work is outsourced, and users never need to log into an enterprise platform or run their own queries.

Contact:

If you're a land investor looking for direct site selection assistance please send a message via LinkedIn.

The web map instances linked within this page were created with open-source software, they visualize data mining results extracted and repacked by, and for the promotion of Spotter CRE LLC's site selection services. Each of these web map instances have essential trackable identifiers. Spotter CRE LLC does not sell software or data. This service exclusively bills for time spent delivering tailored results, and passes on any necessary data costs incurred during the process. The primary data used by Spotter CRE LLC is subject to the disclaimers of its original sources, which include but are not limited to the following: the data should not be relied upon for property ownership or market value determinations, that no warranties are provided regarding its accuracy, use, or interpretation.