Co-location strategy
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 title: "Co-Location Strategy" title: "Co-location strategy" slug: co-location-strategy category: site-selection type: topic @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ bcsc_class: current-fact language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC keynote: true keynote_section: "Co-Location Methodology" last_edited: 2026-06-26 last_edited: 2026-07-11 editor: pointsav-engineering short_description: "The strategy of positioning professional centres adjacent to national retail anchors to transpose retail resilience onto office demand." paired_with: site-selection/co-location-strategy.es.md @@ -42,7 +42,13 @@ The anchor retailers are not tenants of the professional building. They are exte ## Regional market focus Co-location targets [[about-regional-markets|regional markets]] — cities and metropolitan areas with populations typically between 50,000 and 300,000 — rather than central business districts in major metro areas. Regional markets exhibit the retail investment patterns and underserved professional real estate demand that co-location requires. Central business districts in major metros face different competitive dynamics: legacy office oversupply, declining anchor retail, and transit-dependent occupiers rather than the drive-based catchment that powers co-location deployments. Co-location targets [[about-regional-markets-system|regional markets]] — suburban settlements 15 to 80 kilometres from a major metropolitan core — rather than central business districts in major metro areas. Regional markets exhibit the retail investment patterns and underserved professional real estate demand that co-location requires. Central business districts in major metros face different competitive dynamics: legacy office oversupply, declining anchor retail, and transit-dependent occupiers rather than the drive-based catchment that powers co-location deployments. *Editorial note (2026-07-10): this section previously described regional markets as "standalone cities... rather than suburban nodes" — the opposite of the suburban-regional definition that [[about-regional-markets-system|the current co-location scoring system]] actually uses. Corrected to match the system now in production; see [[about-regional-markets|the superseded prior definition]] for historical reference.* ## Relationship to the direct-hold solution