How We Choose Sites
- Asset Evaluation Protocol
How the co-location ranking matrix drives WMC's commercial asset acquisition targeting: tier score as the entry criterion, independent GIS analysis as the verification method.
- Cluster Deduplication Threshold
The co-location index pipeline deduplicates overlapping clusters that represent the same commercial zone using a 150-metre threshold, retaining the cluster with the higher secondary operator count. A prior 500-metre threshold was found to suppress legitimately distinct commercial nodes in dense suburban corridors.
- Co-location Anchors
Large-format national retailers whose verified presence within defined proximity thresholds is the binary qualifying criterion for commercial node inclusion.
- Co-location Cluster Formation
The pipeline step that converts each qualifying anchor store into a candidate co-location cluster; overlapping candidates from a single trade area are resolved by deduplication before ranking inputs are aggregated.
- Co-location Investment Thesis
The investment thesis that commercial nodes where institutional-grade retailers converge within defined catchment radii present objectively verifiable, superior site characteristics.
- Co-Location Strategy
The strategy of positioning professional centres adjacent to national retail anchors to transpose retail resilience onto office demand.
- Co-Location Target Hierarchy
Three-tier target classification in Woodfine's co-location dataset — Primary (Walmart Supercentre), Secondary (Home Depot, Costco), Tertiary (universities, medical centres).
- Co-location Tier Nomenclature
The four tier labels — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — visible on the co-location map follow the International Council of Shopping Centres retail property hierarchy, providing a nomenclature that carries meaning independently of the platform itself. Sprint 17 (May 2026) introduced both the ICSC labels and the V3 pure-predicate tier engine.
- Co-location tiering and scoring
Tier scoring for co-location clusters — what the T1–T3 composition tiers measure, the DBSCAN parameters that form clusters, and what the tiers do not claim.
- Geographic Co-Location Methodology
Five-degree cluster system scoring retail node proximity from Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary target co-occurrence to rank development sites by anchor strength.
- Institutional Retail Halo
Economic thesis that co-location with grocery-anchored Power Centres transfers the cash-flow stability of necessity retail to adjacent Woodfine professional office space.
- Location Intelligence Co-location Archetypes
Three co-location archetypes — Retail Centres (PRO), Urban Fringe (VWH), and Commuter (PKS) — identifying distinct commercial clustering patterns across 17 countries in North America and Europe.
- Location intelligence platform — strategy and architecture
The strategic and architectural frame for the platform's Location Intelligence substrate: a flat-file open-GIS approach that lets customers own their location data end-to-end, running offline, without ongoing per-seat or per-request vendor costs.
- National Tenants
Revenue-driving professional occupiers — academic, medical, and civic — whose institutional identity anchors building credibility and stabilizes the mix-of-use tenant composition.
- O-D catchment methodology — primary and secondary trade areas
Trade areas for each co-location cluster are defined using crow-flies H3 hexagonal distance rings: a 35 km primary zone and a 35–150 km secondary zone, both computed from WorldPop 2026 population data.
- Power Centre Co-Location Thesis
Site-selection discipline requiring Qualified Investment sites to co-locate with operating Power Centre anchors, aligning development to proven National Retailer Rollout Programs.
- Power Centres
Retail hubs anchored by multiple big-box national retailers, serving as the primary site-selection anchors for Woodfine co-location deployments.
- Pure-Predicate Catchment Ranking Methodology (V3)
The V3 tier-assignment methodology assigns each co-location cluster to one of four tiers using binary predicate gates — composition, national catchment rank, civic classification, and spatial overlap — replacing the prior composite-score system introduced in Sprint 17 (May 2026).
- Retail anchor co-location composition as a spatial leading indicator of commercial activity
A continental-scale cluster analysis framework identifying retail anchor co-location clusters and their tier classification across thirteen countries.
- Retail Brand Family Taxonomy
Every retail location on the co-location map carries a brand family classification that determines how the location is displayed and, for some families, whether it contributes to cluster scoring. The taxonomy was designed around the anchor types used in the co-location methodology while remaining extensible to the full range of ingested operators.
- Retail Centres (PRO)
Retail Centres (PRO) are neighbourhood commercial centres anchored by grocery, pharmacy, bank, and casual dining — one of three Location Intelligence co-location archetypes, and the base map product for the site-selection dataset.
- Retail Co-location Intelligence — Overview
Systematic geographic analysis identifying and ranking retail sites where large-format categories converge within defined catchment radii.
- Retail Co-location Methodology
A deterministic spatial-analysis framework that ranks commercial real-estate nodes by the objective convergence of independent, capital-intensive retail operators — independent corroboration in place of market sentiment.
- Retail Co-location Ranking System
Deterministic 12-rank scoring algorithm evaluating retail co-location sites by named-anchor convergence across defined catchment radii.
- Trade-area methodology
Honest labelling of demand geography — why straight-line distance bands are never called catchments, and the planned move to isochrones and observed origins.
- Zoning Acquisition Rules
Pre-purchase verification requirements ensuring every parcel acquired has confirmed zoning for the intended development, eliminating speculative land banking.