The University of Connecticut Extension Programs in Community & Economic Development partner with the CT Main Street Center to offer downtown market analysis resources and education. Educational objectives include: learning how data can be used in a market analysis to guide downtown decision making, analyzing community data from ESRI Business Analyst and other sources, learning how to find additional data sources for downtown benchmarking and evaluation, and learning how to effectively collect data that is not otherwise available (surveys, focus groups, and other primary research).