Retail co-location methodology
docs(projects wiki): fidelity sweep round 2 — 8 architecture-history errors + deep site-selection/ tier-system cross-contamination (3+ unreconciled scoring systems, false ICSC citation, T1/T2/T3 inversion, jurisdiction-count contradiction, IKEA misclassification)
@@ -60,6 +60,18 @@ Civic and institutional infrastructure that provides a non-cyclical, stable demo Sites are evaluated on a 12-rank matrix that maps to five quality tiers, separating commodity retail nodes from the rare locations where critical commercial elements converge. The map-facing labels — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — follow the ICSC retail property hierarchy described in [[co-location-tier-nomenclature|tier nomenclature]]. **Correction (2026-08-02):** two defects. (1) The real ICSC shopping-center hierarchy is Neighborhood/Community/Regional/Super Regional (plus named specialty types) — it has no "District," "Local," or "Fringe" tier, and only "Regional" is a real ICSC term. This "follows the ICSC hierarchy" claim is factually wrong. (2) Separately, this article's own 5-tier matrix cannot be the same system as [[co-location-tier-nomenclature]]'s 4-label Regional/District/Local/Fringe scheme — that scheme is assigned by an unrelated predicate-gate mechanism (population percentile, IoU overlap, civic classification), not this article's Hardware/ Warehouse/Healthcare/Higher-Ed composition matrix. This wiki maintains at least three unreconciled co-location scoring systems that reuse overlapping tier vocabulary — this citation conflates two of them. **Flagged, not resolved.** | Tier | Description | Commercial validation | |------|-------------|-----------------------| | ★★★★★ | Tier 5 — Full co-location | All four categories present: hardware, warehouse club, healthcare, higher education | @@ -76,6 +88,10 @@ The co-location index acts as a defensive filter for capital deployment. By focu The methodology applies consistently across global markets by mapping regional operators to these canonical roles. A planned expansion integrates logistics and transport data to add a fourth dimension to the matrix; that expansion is forward-looking and framed per `[ni-51-102]` and `[osc-sn-51-721]`. **Correction (2026-08-02):** the matrix already has four non-primary dimensions (Hardware, Warehouse, Healthcare, Higher Ed) — a planned addition would be a fifth dimension, not a "fourth." **Flagged, not resolved.** ## See also - [[co-location-ranking-system]]