This study provides an analysis of the number, composition, and types of businesses found in the Perry Choice Neighborhood.

Understanding the dynamics and nature of the businesses the Perry Choice Neighborhood (PCN) is essential to building a vibrant community and forging a transformative plan (Map 1). Understanding the PCN business landscape is critical to formulating an neighborhood economic development strategy that will generate jobs and opportunities for the residents and that will provide insight into the type of infrastructure that is needed to support, grow and develop the existing businesses in the neighborhood and to attract new enterprises to the community. For example, to connect residents to potential employment opportunities, one must have an adequate understanding of the types of businesses that exist within the community so that training programs can be developed that meet the labor needs of these industries. Likewise, in order to support, grow and develop it is necessary to know the types of neighborhood businesses and their relationship to priority regional clusters.