Site selection is one of the most consequential decisions an organization makes, directly impacting operating cost, workforce sustainability, service performance, and long-term scalability. Stream approaches site selection as a business strategy exercise, not a real estate transaction. As experienced site selection consultants, we integrate supply chain analysis, labor analytics, economic incentives, facility planning, and real estate due diligence into a disciplined site selection strategy. Our approach reduces risk, validates assumptions, and ensures each location supports operational performance, capital efficiency, and future growth.
We provide supply chain consulting focused on inbound and outbound logistics, transportation modes, customer and supplier proximity, and access to highway, rail, port, and intermodal infrastructure. This supply chain optimization analysis evaluates cost to serve, network resilience, and scalability to support long-term operating efficiency rather than short-term real estate advantages.
Our labor market analysis evaluates workforce availability, labor shed depth, wage dynamics, competition, and long-term labor sustainability for specific job profiles. This supports workforce capacity planning, informs automation strategies, and reduces labor-driven risk that can constrain facility performance over time.
We coordinate and evaluate available business economic incentives to ensure they are fully understood and appropriately reflected in investment decisions. This includes statutory and non statutory programs at the federal, regional, and local levels, as well as infrastructure related incentives that impact both capital and operating costs. Incentives are evaluated as enhancements to strong site decisions rather than substitutes for them.
Early facility planning and test fits validate throughput, automation, and operational flow, including capacity planning and automated storage and retrieval system considerations where applicable. This ensures building and infrastructure decisions align with production, distribution, and future expansion requirements.
We assess market availability across existing facilities, land, and build to suit options while managing technical, environmental, entitlement, and utility due diligence. This includes evaluation of zoning, conditional use permits, special use permits, and real estate taxes versus property taxes to reduce execution risk and support defensible decision making.
