BusinessFlare® · Martin County CRA Performance Tracking & Intelligence Platform
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Project Status Portal · Updated August 31, 2026

Where we are. What's next. What we need.

The live snapshot of the Martin County CRA Performance Tracking & Intelligence Platform engagement, one shared picture of progress for the County team and BusinessFlare, without navigating the deeper project tools. The analytical dashboard is the data surface; this portal is the engagement view.

Phase progress

Six districts. Four strategies. One platform.

Explore each CRA in depth on the dashboard: parcel-level tax base density, use mix, FY26 stated goals, and the Mapp Road and Bridge Road case studies. Open the dashboard →

Week 15 of 18 · 83% of contract timelineWork done, fee-weighted: about 75%
1Kickoff
2Data
3Analysis
4Visualization
5Reporting
6Presentation
6 CRAs
Districts benchmarked
73%
Metrics framework populated
v3
Dashboard live on every district
Phase 5
Reporting underway
Right now

What we're working on

In flight

Phase 5 reporting

A draft CRA performance report is built: executive summary, the three-tiered framework, a full profile for each of the six districts, the corridor case studies, and recommendations. Finalizing as the remaining County data lands.

Owner: Kevin · Status: Draft complete, in review
Complete

Phase 4 visualization

The dashboard now carries a chart on every district card, tax base growth, permit trend, vacancy trend, residential share, and top industries, plus cross-district comparison charts. Base maps, heat layers, tax-base graphics, and the economic impact model are done. Only the foot-traffic layer remains, gated on Placer.

Owner: Kevin and Camilo · Status: Complete except foot traffic
Complete

Live performance dashboard

The dashboard carries live data on every district tab: year-over-year tax base, CIP commitment, permit activity, employment, and commercial real estate. Deployed and cross-linked with this portal.

Owner: Kevin · Status: v3 deployed
Needs County input

Placer foot traffic destination selection

The one external dependency still holding a workstream. A short working session with Jordan and Dianne to choose which destinations within each CRA to track. Placer's polygon cap means we track points of interest, not whole districts.

Scheduling · Gates the foot traffic layer
What we need from you

Data that depends on the County

Most County data is already in hand from the quarterly and annual reports: per-district permits, TIF revenue, CRA Investment Program completions, project lists, and engagement metrics. A short list of specific gaps remains.

Performance tier: priority

CRA activity records, per district

Business outreach contacts; partnership agreements executed; certificates of occupancy issued; and the FY2025 CRA expenditure breakout by category. This is the workload-and-activity data the framework's top tier is built on.

Source: internal CRA tracking · Highest priority
Placer session

Foot traffic destinations

A short session with Jordan and Dianne to select the destinations worth tracking in each CRA. Your local knowledge tells us which points of interest matter. This unlocks all six mobility metrics at once.

Session with Jordan and Dianne
Open item

Jensen Beach boundary

The Jensen Beach parcel set runs about 16% under the Annual Report figure, now traced to a boundary-extent difference (roughly 57.5 GIS acres vs about 65 reported), likely waterfront or riparian parcels from the 2021 boundary redraw. Confirming the current boundary with Dianne clears the one validation flag in the dataset.

Awaiting Dianne Racek
On our side

Next-phase data, in progress

Work we own and are actively pulling. It does not wait on the County.

In progress

Economic profile, per CRA boundary

Business count, employment, and industry mix are in from Esri Business Analyst, enriched against each CRA boundary. Average earnings and net business openings are the remaining pieces, pending a second Business Analyst and Lightcast pull.

Esri Business Analyst, CoStar, Lightcast
Mostly in

Monitoring tier

Interest rates, Florida construction value, the insurance-market signal, county population and income are pulled and sourced. A Treasure Coast market-level absorption trend (distinct from the per-district net absorption already live on the dashboard), a full permit-level developer scan, and two districts' flood-zone acreage are the remaining pieces.

Public sources, CoStar
Complete

Real property and tangible value

Just value, taxable value, and tangible personal property per CRA are pulled from the tax roll and DOR assessment roll and joined to each boundary, validated to the Annual Report within 1.6% for five of six districts.

FL DOR and Property Appraiser
Complete

Residential market

Median sale price and turnover are computed per CRA from qualified arm's-length sales joined to each district boundary, alongside the commercial real estate metrics in the framework.

2025 tax roll
Coming up

Next milestones

Early September

Draft report circulation

Phase 5 draft shared with Jordan, Susan, and Dianne: per-district profiles, the Mapp Road and Bridge Road case studies, and recommendations.

Mid September

Board presentation prep

Phase 6 executive deck and final dashboard. Board walkthrough with the County team before the public presentation.

Sept 23

Final delivery

Final report, dashboard, and executive deck delivered to Martin County, closing Phases 5 and 6.

Delivered

What's shipped so far

Delivered

Six-district data foundation

Parcel-to-CRA spatial join (97,297 parcels, 7,435 inside CRAs), validated to the Annual Report within 1.6% for five of six districts. CoStar commercial, Esri employment, CIP, permits, and year-over-year tax base all acquired.

Phases 1 and 2 complete
Delivered

Phase 3 analytical synthesis

Comparative analysis, typology validation, fiscal analysis, commercial and residential real estate, the Mapp Road and Bridge Road case studies, and a first-pass economic impact model, backed by the framework workbook.

Framework v28
Delivered

Mapp Road and Bridge Road case studies

County investment versus private investment triggered, on real parcel-roll data with the County's official project dates, delivered for the budget workshop.

Old Palm City and Hobe Sound
Delivered

Draft performance report and board deck

A full draft report (executive summary, framework, six district profiles, corridor case studies, recommendations) and a board presentation deck, both built from the completed analysis and updating as County data lands.

Phase 5-6 draft
Delivered

Live dashboard and status portal

Two-page deployment: this status portal plus the analytical dashboard with live data on every district tab. Cross-linked, hosted, and updated as the analysis advances.

Dashboard v3
For the record

Recent methodology decisions

August

Jensen Beach variance diagnosed as a boundary-extent issue, not a valuation error: the parcel join runs on about 57.5 GIS acres against roughly 65 reported, with the difference in waterfront or riparian parcels from the 2021 redraw. Pending County boundary confirmation.

June 25

CRA typology framework adopted as a working hypothesis: Mature Residential (Golden Gate), Compact Commercial Downtown (Jensen Beach), Mixed-Use Corridor (Old Palm City, Hobe Sound), Heterogeneous Infrastructure (Port Salerno, Rio). Five of six validate against the data; Rio is under peer review.

June 24

Foot traffic methodology will be destination-level, not district-level. Placer's polygon cap means we track specific points of interest within each CRA, selected jointly with the County team.

June 23

Five of six CRAs validate to the Annual Report within 1.6%. Jensen Beach carries the boundary gap noted above, still open with the County.

Who's who

Project contacts

Martin County

Jordan PastoriusAssistant Community Development Manager, primary contact
Susan KoresDirector, Office of Community Development
Dianne RacekOCD operations

BusinessFlare®

Kevin CrowderPrincipal, lead analyst, primary client interface
Camilo LopezStrategic Economic Designer
Alicia AlleyneCOO, client coordination