The Retail Action Strategy will include analysis of retail needs and conditions for the city, as well as for a number of more local neighborhood retail centers.  The study will particularly focus on commercial areas that are not meeting the full range of needs of nearby residents as well as they could, and that have been unsuccessful in sustaining or attracting viable retail concentrations due to real or perceived market weakness.

Twenty submarkets/neighborhood commercial districts, spread across all eight wards are being selected for analysis.  The list of submarket areas is as follows: