Development Classes

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short_description: "What we build: the six development classes — Professional Centres, Suburban Office, Retail Select, Tech Industrial, and the planned Parking Structures and Vertical Warehouses."
short_description: "What we build: the six development classes — Professional Centres, Suburban Office, Retail Select, Tech Industrial, and the planned Parking Structures and Vertical Warehouses — plus tenant curation and procurement."
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The Buildings covers what Woodfine builds: six development classes — Professional
Centres, Suburban Office, Retail Select, and Tech Industrial today, with Parking
Structures and Vertical Warehouses planned as the programme expands. Each class article
explains what the building type is, who it is designed for, and its underlying
economics.
The Buildings names what Woodfine actually builds: four development classes in force today, two more planned, and the tenant curation and procurement disciplines that fill and supply them.

Two classes are described here in intended terms until their physical specifications are
formally set; the rest carry current, in-force definitions.
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See [[about-development-classes|Development Classes]] for the full walk-through of all
six classes, their economics, and the shared development vocabulary.
**Start here:** [[about-development-classes|Development Classes]]

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## The Six Development Classes

[[about-development-classes|Development Classes]] walks through all six: what each building type is, who it serves, and how it is sited. [[about-development-class-economics|Development Class Economics]] sets out the numbers behind each one. Four classes carry current, in-force definitions; two are planned and described in intended terms until their physical specifications are formally set.

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- [[about-development-classes]] — The six development classes for Woodfine direct-hold deployments: Professional Centres, Suburban Office, Retail Select, Tech Industrial, Parking Structures, and Vertical Warehouses.
- [[about-development-class-economics]] — The economic characteristics of Woodfine's direct-hold building classes: Professional Centres, Suburban Office, Tech Industrial, and Retail Select, with Parking Structures and Vertical Warehouses to follow.
- [[class-professional-centres]] — Professional Centres are three-to-five-floor office buildings for professional service tenants, built to a fixed Prototype within 1.0 km of a power centre anchor.
- [[class-suburban-office]] — Suburban Office extends the Professional Centres office product to a 2.0-kilometre radius where 1.0-kilometre siting is not feasible, serving the same tenant base in a fallback deployment format.
- [[class-retail-select]] — Retail Select is the single-storey commercial-retail class that complements Woodfine's multi-storey office buildings within the 1.0-kilometre power centre radius.
- [[class-tech-industrial]] — Tech Industrial is a single-format industrial-retail building — 25% retail storefront, 75% shop floor with grade-level panel van access — serving last-mile logistics and workshop tenants within the co-location footprint.
- [[class-parking-structures]] — Parking Structures are planned for regional transit hubs and airport catchment zones, providing structured parking as a standalone direct-hold asset outside the power centre proximity model.
- [[class-vertical-warehouses]] — Vertical Warehouses are planned as a purpose-built vertical-stacking industrial and logistics class for inter-city fringe locations, sited outside the power centre proximity model.
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## Tenant Curation and Procurement

Two further articles cover how a building fills and supplies itself. [[mix-of-use|Mix-of-Use]] is the tenant curation model that assembles a stable, five-category tenant ecosystem inside every Woodfine building. [[centralized-buying-program|The Centralized Buying Program]] aggregates materials purchasing across simultaneous projects to secure national pricing, with rebates flowing back to the Direct-Hold Solutions.

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- [[mix-of-use]] — A strategic tenant curation model that assembles a professional ecosystem from five stability-anchored tenant categories within each Woodfine building.
- [[centralized-buying-program]] — Procurement structure aggregating materials purchasing across simultaneous building projects to secure National Pricing, with rebates flowing to the Direct-Hold Solutions.
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## Vocabulary

[[woodfine-development-vocabulary|The Development Vocabulary]] collects the proprietary terms used across this category — Development Class, Prototype, Fixed Floor Plate, and Rollout Program — kept distinct from generic AEC industry usage.

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- [[woodfine-development-vocabulary]] — A curated glossary of proprietary Woodfine direct-hold vocabulary — Development Classes, Prototype, Fixed Floor Plate, Rollout Program, and related terms — distinct from generic AEC industry terminology.
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## See also

- [[building-design-index|How We Build]]