RETAIL & FRANCHISE

Find the next trade area. Then find the corner

MAIA maps every store, competitor, and rooftop in a trade area, scores where demand can support another location, then finds the corners that can capture it and the owner behind each one. Retail developers use it to cut a county's commercial parcels to the prime corners and skip the ones a big-box developer already holds. Site selection starts from every parcel on the map, not from what's listed.

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How it works

Map the trade area

Traffic counts, competitor locations, household income, and daytime jobs land on the map before any site is scored. A tenant's existing locations draw the radius the next one must sit outside.

Find the corner

Parcel size, zoning, and building coverage find the vacant commercial land, and the road network flags the hard corners. Imagery measures the parking, and flood and industrial-neighbor checks drop a site before the drive.

Resolve the owner and the plan

Sale history shows which parcels a shopping-center developer already bought. For the rest, listing status is researched, and corporate filings pierce the LLC to the owner and a contact.

Replaces

The listing alerts, the spreadsheet of traffic counts, and the broker's tour of the wrong corners.

Questions teams like yours ask MAIA

Asked in plain language. Answered across every parcel in your territory at once.

Which corners have the size, zoning, and traffic for a center?

Acreage and zoning come from parcel records, the road network marks the hard corners, and traffic counts sit on the row. The whole county runs in one pass.

Where is the whitespace?

Every tenant and competitor location is mapped from business records, and the radius each serves is subtracted. Income, growth, and daytime jobs rank the gaps that can support another store.

Which vacant boxes could a tenant take?

Building footprints set the size band, business records show whether a box still has a tenant, and imagery counts the parking. The right box surfaces without sifting listings.

Which sites should we skip?

Sale history flags the corners a shopping-center developer already bought. Flood zones, cleanup records, and an industrial neighbor from land-use records drop a site before the call.

Where is growth headed?

Household growth from census records and building permits, where published, show where rooftops are arriving. For the shortlist, MAIA researches planned roads and off-ramps that make a corner.

Which sites are for sale, and who owns the rest?

Listing status, price, and broker are researched for the shortlist. For the rest, corporate filings pierce the LLC to the owner, a contact, and their other holdings in the county.

The data underneath

Every result carries the record it came from, so the analysis is cited and defensible.

Screen for	Dataset	Source
Traffic	Vehicles per day on the roads fronting each parcel	Public traffic counts
Tenants and competitors	Stores, restaurants, and services around each site, by brand and category	Verified business locations
Demographics	Household income, growth, and workplace jobs around each site	Census and workforce records
Parcel and corner	Size, zoning, building coverage, and hard-corner access	County assessor and property records; public road network records
Buildings and parking	Building size, occupancy signals, and parking counted from imagery	Building footprints and heights; verified business locations; computer vision on current aerial imagery
Recent buyers and constraints	Sale history, flood zones, cleanup sites, and industrial neighbors	County assessor and property records; FEMA, National Wetlands Inventory, and EPA records
Availability and owner	Listing status, planned roads, LLC resolution, and contacts, researched per shortlist	Cited web research; multi-source contact intelligence

Case study

27 Large Retail Development Sites Found in Maricopa County

VP of Acquisitions, vertically integrated Southern California developer with a national retail and industrial portfolio · Maricopa and Pinal counties, Arizona · August 28, 2026

What they knew

A vertically integrated Southern California developer builds and holds rather than sells, with a national portfolio in the tens of millions of square feet, most of it industrial, and a retail arm that develops shopping centers. Its VP of Acquisitions, seven years with the firm, hunts land for those centers in new markets. That meant local brokers, a mapping subscription, and listing sites, parcels pulled by hand: funky-shaped lots, weak proximity checks, and corners another shopping-center developer had already tied up. He wanted a whole county screened to its true hard corners first.

What they asked

Find vacant, commercially zoned parcels of 12 to 35 acres on hard corners in Maricopa County with high traffic and residential growth nearby, and remove anything a shopping-center developer already owns.

What MAIA did

Mapped the corners and the traffic

Parcel records supplied acreage and zoning, the road network flagged the parcels at the meeting of two arterials, and traffic counts on those roads sat on every row.

Dropped the sites that would fail

Flood zones and cleanup records were joined to each parcel, industrial neighbors were flagged from land-use records, and sale history removed the corners a shopping-center developer had already bought.

Resolved the owner behind the dirt

Corporate filings pierced the LLC on the off-market sites, and contact enrichment returned a phone number with the reasoning attached, so the first voicemail went out the same week.

What came back

383 candidates, 79 true arterial corners, 55 prime corners from the first Maricopa County run, 27 of them commercially zoned
4 worthwhile Arizona parcels after review: two listed, and one off-market LLC whose owner's number MAIA surfaced, with the voicemail left that week
15 projects across 20 counties run by the VP himself, from Maricopa and Pinal to Dallas and Central Florida

What they did next

Off-market owners hear from the VP directly, and the listed corners go to brokers he trusts. Each county the retail arm adds gets the same corner search from a buildable-land skill, Dallas County and three in Central Florida so far. The prompt he wants answered next is the corner that is not a corner yet: after a site near Prescott slipped through for roads not yet built, planned roads and off-ramps now come back with the shortlist.

I used to pull parcels from the mapping service into a spreadsheet and get funky-shaped lots and corners a big-box developer already had. This gave me the true hard corners in Maricopa in one run.
— VP of Acquisitions, vertically integrated Southern California developer