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Co-location tier nomenclature

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language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC
last_edited: 2026-08-26
editor: pointsav-engineering
short_description: "The four tier labels — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — visible on the co-location map follow the International Council of Shopping Centres retail property hierarchy, providing a nomenclature that carries meaning independently of the platform itself. The ICSC labels and the current predicate-gate scoring system were introduced together in May 2026."
short_description: "The four tier labels — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — visible on the co-location map are named after the International Council of Shopping Centres retail property hierarchy, though only \"Regional\" is a genuine ICSC term; District, Local, and Fringe are the platform's own naming choices. Introduced together with the current predicate-gate scoring system in May 2026."
paired_with: site-selection/co-location-tier-nomenclature.es.md
cites:
  - ni-51-102
  - osc-sn-51-721
---

The [[co-location-methodology|co-location index]] assigns each cluster to one of four tiers based on the categorical composition of its [[co-location-anchors|anchor]] and secondary stores and on the cluster's position within its national population catchment. The tier labels visible on the map — **Regional**, **District**, **Local**, **Fringe** — follow the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC) retail property hierarchy, which is used by property developers, planners, and retail analysts across the [[co-location-tier-system|North American and European markets]] the platform covers. The qualifying gates are defined in the [[catchment-ranking-methodology-v3|V3 catchment ranking methodology]] and the underlying scoring logic in the [[co-location-ranking-system|co-location ranking system]].
The [[co-location-methodology|co-location index]] assigns each cluster to one of four tiers based on the categorical composition of its [[co-location-anchors|anchor]] and secondary stores and on the cluster's position within its national population catchment. The tier labels visible on the map — **Regional**, **District**, **Local**, **Fringe** — are named after the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC) retail property hierarchy, used by property developers, planners, and retail analysts across the [[co-location-tier-system|North American and European markets]] the platform covers. The qualifying gates are defined in the [[catchment-ranking-methodology-v3|V3 catchment ranking methodology]] and the underlying scoring logic in the [[co-location-ranking-system|co-location ranking system]].

## What Each Tier Means

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**Second rename (May 2026):** The plain-English labels were replaced with the ICSC hierarchy: Regional, District, Local, Fringe. The motivation was alignment with an internationally recognised nomenclature that carries meaning without requiring platform-specific context. A planner who opens the map without reading documentation knows what "Regional" means; "Prime" required learning.

**Correction (2026-08-02), partially resolved (2026-08-24):** two defects were
flagged. (1) The real ICSC shopping-center hierarchy is Neighborhood/Community/
Regional/Super Regional — it has no "District," "Local," or "Fringe" tier; only
"Regional" is a genuine ICSC term. This point stands and is not resolved here; the
platform's own naming choice, not this article's description of it, is the source
of the imprecision. (2) This article's claim that the T1/T2/T3 numeric scheme was
retired platform-wide is now confirmed accurate against the system currently live
at gis.woodfinegroup.com: the Regional/District/
Local/Fringe tiers below are the current, live system. Two of the three sibling
articles that previously contradicted this — [[gis-cluster-scoring-glossary|
gis-cluster-scoring-glossary]] and [[co-location-ranking-system]] — have been
corrected to match (2026-08-24). [[co-location-tiering-scoring]] still presents a
separate DBSCAN-based T1/T2/T3 system as current and has not yet been reconciled —
**flagged, not resolved** for that one remaining article.
The platform's tier names borrow from the ICSC shopping-center hierarchy but are not identical to it. The real ICSC hierarchy is Neighborhood/Community/Regional/Super Regional; only "Regional" is a genuine ICSC term. "District," "Local," and "Fringe" are the platform's own naming choices, not ICSC terms.

The Spanish-language equivalents are: Regional, Distrital, Local, Marginal.
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