8A – Solving The Problem

1. The city of Oviedo, Florida, does not have a local comic shop, despite fast-changing demographics of the city suggesting there would be customers for one. The closest comic shop is over 20 minutes away by toll road highway. 
2. A Local Comic Shop, henceforth abbreviated as LCS, would be a success in the city of Oviedo. Oviedo is in need of an LCS due to the demographics of the city shifting as the city grows bigger in wealth and in population. It is in a good school district with quality public schools, meaning many new or young families live there. These are potential customers. It is also a short drive from UCF, and many UCF students live there. College-aged males are a big part of comic readership, so this represents potential customers as well. The neighboring city, Winter Springs, and Oviedo share many places of food and drink, entertainment, and shopping, due to the cities' proximity to each other. An LCS in Oviedo would still be a very short drive for someone in Winter Springs, thereby serving that population as well. Finally, UCF has many small game (board games, pen and paper games, tabletop games, not video games - though there is some overlap) shops located around it, but no LCSes. These two hobbies share a large portion of their customers, so the amount of successful game stores suggests that an LCS in a nearby area would also be successful.