United States — Regional Market index
docs(projects): rename markets hub 'Screening Universe' section to 'Market Coverage' (H2/lede/short_description/index_group), retire 'screening' as house vocabulary wiki-wide -- replaced with qualification-gate language across 61 market-profile/country-page/system articles and 2 site-selection articles that doesn't imply a ranked filter-down (66 files)
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC keynote: false last_edited: 2026-08-25 last_edited: 2026-08-26 editor: woodfine-editorial short_description: "Index of US regional commercial real estate markets meeting co-location screening thresholds across all major census regions." short_description: "Index of US regional commercial real estate markets meeting the co-location composition gates across all major census regions." paired_with: markets/atlas-united-states.es.md --- @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Unlike Canada and European comparables, the US market operates without federal l planning constraints. The result is uniform power centre development across income-qualified markets in all fifty states. The primary screening signals — Costco warehouse clubs, Home Depot and Lowe's home-improvement The primary qualification signals — Costco warehouse clubs, Home Depot and Lowe's home-improvement stores, Walmart and Target general merchandise superstores — are present in virtually every US market above 80,000 population that clears the household income threshold. Their presence provides a consistent and reliable income signal. @@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ these five named markets are themselves TOP400 entries under the names given. ## Sample of 25 The United States' 369 TOP400 entries span the country's full income and metropolitan range. A sample of twenty-five US markets is listed below (the US does not have a separate screening track — this is a US-filtered view of the same 400-market set). This is a sample, range. A sample of twenty-five US markets is listed below (the US does not have a separate qualification track — this is a US-filtered view of the same 400-market set). This is a sample, not a ranked top tier — the full set continues in the Appendix. | Market | Suburb of | km | T1 | T2 | T3 | Civic |