Metro Forecasting Models Launches State-of-the-Art Service

Veteran professional engineers and urban planners Dr. Paul Van Buskirk and David H. Farmer recently established Metro Forecasting Models, LLC, a high-tech company that provides accurate and reliable forecasts for population, housing and commercial demand for communities nationwide.

Headquartered in Bonita Springs, the company employs a team of GIS professionals, a software designer, an economist and a research assistant. The firm’s state-of-the-art models have been accurately forecasting future development and have been used by local governments and private industry for more than 35 years.

The firm’s premier model, the Interactive Growth Model (IGM), is nationally recognized for its forecasting accuracy and has received two American Planning Association awards.

Van Buskirk describes the IGM as a sort of “time machine. Change is coming and this forecasting model empowers our clients, whether local government or private industry, to maximize fiscal performance and prepare for it.”

Metro Forecasting Models has completed aggregate forecasting reports of population, housing and commercial demand in five-year increments from 2015 to build-out for Lee and Collier counties, as well as high-growth areas in Colorado, North Carolina and Alabama. For example, the Lee County report forecasts a total population of 725,585 and total housing demand for 426,998 units in the year 2020.

The firm is now developing IGM Version 3 forecasting models and generating more specific data for cities in Southwest Florida and other areas it serves. “As we continue to introduce this proprietary methodology into other high growth areas across the country, we anticipate expanding our current staff from five to 25,” said Farmer.

For more information on the company or to download any of its free population, housing or commercial demand reports, visit www.MetroForecasting. com.