Top 400 Regional Markets — North America
editorial(markets): strip internal-vocabulary/path citations from retirement + pending-rebuild notices per register-corporate.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ last_edited: 2026-07-16 editor: editorial --- **⚠ Pending rebuild (2026-08-17).** A newer dataset (`DATA-regional-markets-top400-2026-08-07.json`, 800 records across NA+EU, three-tier composition-gated selection) is staged in project-gis's `drafts-outbound/` and not yet reflected below. The table below still describes the prior selection (US 369 / CA 23 / MX 8); the new NA selection is US 298 / CA 56 / MX 46 — Mexico's count alone changes enough to warrant its own dedicated page, which doesn't exist yet. Content-authoring against the new dataset is deliberately on hold pending operator confirmation; this notice exists so the gap is visible rather than silent. **Pending rebuild (2026-08-17).** A newer dataset covering 800 regional markets across Europe and North America is under internal review and is not yet reflected in the table below. The table below still describes the prior selection (369 United States, 23 Canadian, and 8 Mexican markets); the new North American selection is 298 United States, 56 Canadian, and 46 Mexican markets — Mexico's count alone changes enough to warrant its own dedicated page, which does not yet exist. Publication against the new dataset is on hold pending confirmation. Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas 28 km from the metropolitan core, leads the North American ranking with a composite score of 25.5 — three Tier 1 clusters combined with a civic-anchor multiplier. The four hundred highest-scoring Regional Markets span 369 United States, 23 Canadian, and 8 Mexican suburbs across the commuter belts of major metropolitan areas. A *Regional Market* is a named suburb or satellite municipality within commuting distance of a major metropolitan centre that contains one or more retail co-location clusters; markets are ranked by a composite score combining tier composition and civic-anchor presence.