Site Selection

• Asset evaluation protocol

  How the co-location classification matrix drives Woodfine's commercial asset acquisition targeting: the tier classification as the entry criterion, deterministic scoring on public location data as the verification method.

• Cluster deduplication threshold

  The co-location index pipeline deduplicates overlapping clusters that represent the same commercial zone using a fixed, tightly-set proximity threshold, retaining the cluster with the higher secondary operator count.

• 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 convergence thesis

  Three trends converge at a Power Centre — live/work/play shopping-centre design, underutilized parking land, and a shortage of professional leasable space — and Woodfine's professional-hours tenancy is built to capture each of them.

• 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

  The signals the co-location dataset looks for and the role each plays — a hypermarket anchor, category-dominant co-anchors, and civic institutions — and why the current tier system requires each one independently rather than summing them into a score.

• Co-location tier nomenclature

  The four tier labels — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — visible on the co-location map are named after the International Council of Shopping Centres retail property hierarchy, though only "Regional" is a genuine ICSC term; District, Local, and Fringe are the platform's own naming choices. Introduced together with the current predicate-gate scoring system in May 2026.

• Commuter

  Commuter clusters identify transit-adjacent commercial sites with significant parking — commuter rail, transit hubs, park-and-ride, and highway-exit commercial — one of three Location Intelligence co-location archetypes.

• Composition-based catchment ranking methodology

  The current predicate-gate system that assigns each co-location cluster to one of four tiers — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — using anchor composition, national catchment rank, civic infrastructure, and spatial independence, introduced May 2026 to replace an earlier composite-score model.

• Distance-band methodology — primary and secondary demand zones

  Each co-location cluster is assigned two straight-line distance bands — a primary zone within 35 km and a secondary zone from 35 km to 150 km — that determine the population and spend attributed to it.

• Geographic co-location methodology

  Predicate-gate tier system classifying retail co-location clusters by anchor composition, catchment rank, and civic presence to identify 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, Urban Fringe, and Commuter — identifying distinct commercial clustering patterns across 18 countries in North America and Europe.

• National tenants

  Revenue-driving professional occupiers — academic, medical, and civic — whose institutional identity anchors building credibility and stabilizes the mix-of-use tenant composition.

• 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 Centre land availability

  Woodfine's land-sourcing thesis: the excess parking Power Centre owners reserve against future National Retailer demand is frequently underutilized and available for purchase.

• Power centres

  Retail hubs anchored by multiple big-box national retailers, serving as the primary site-selection anchors for Woodfine co-location deployments.

• 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

  Retail Centres 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 classifying retail sites where large-format categories converge within defined catchment radii.

• Retail co-location methodology

  A deterministic spatial-analysis framework that classifies 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

  The deterministic mechanics behind cluster ranking on the co-location platform — country-relative percentile ranking, the overlap test between neighbouring clusters, and the tiebreak order applied within a tier.

• 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.

• Urban Fringe

  Urban Fringe clusters identify large-format retail and distribution-industrial activity on the urban periphery — big-box hardware, home improvement, and logistics — one of three Location Intelligence co-location archetypes.

• Zoning acquisition standard

  Pre-purchase entitlement verification: every parcel is acquired against either a permitted use or an evidenced, achievable rezoning path, with an active development timeline and no speculative land banking.