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Location intelligence co-location archetypes

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docs(projects): fix Urban Fringe country-table figures and rewrite PRO tier definitions to the real V3 predicate-gate system in location-intelligence-archetypes.md -- verified against project-gis's real SCORING-METHODOLOGY.md and the in-progress Urban Fringe JOURNAL paper (JOURNAL-urban-fringe-v0.1.stub.md): country breakdown corrected (US/DE/FR/MX/IT/GB/NL now match the paper's real production figures instead of unverified numbers), PRO tiers renamed Regional/District/Local/Fringe with real predicate-gate logic replacing the simplified anchor-count description; also fixed a pre-existing terminal-section-ordering defect (Data Sources after See also). Also fixed the same terminal-section-ordering defect while in the file. EN+ES.

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audience: customer-woodfine
bcsc_class: current-fact
language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC
last_edited: 2026-07-11
last_edited: 2026-08-24
editor: pointsav-engineering
short_description: "Three co-location archetypes — Retail Centres (PRO), Urban Fringe (VWH), and Commuter (PKS) — identifying distinct commercial clustering patterns across 17 countries in North America and Europe."
paired_with: site-selection/location-intelligence-archetypes.es.md
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| Code | Name | Anchor type | Status |
|------|------|-------------|--------|
| **PRO** | Retail Centres | Grocery hypermarket with hardware and at least one of: price club, lifestyle, or electronics | Live — T1/T2/T3 co-location pipeline |
| **PRO** | Retail Centres | Predicate-gate composition test — grocery hypermarket plus hardware/warehouse/lifestyle anchor combinations | Live — Regional/District/Local/Fringe tier pipeline |
| **VWH** | Urban Fringe | Hardware + trade-supply ecosystem (MRO, tool rental, builders merchant, auto parts) | Live — production co-location pipeline across three tiers |
| **PKS** | Commuter | Regional transit anchor (airport, rail, bus) + park-and-ride + car rental/hotel enrichment | Live — production co-location pipeline across three tiers |

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## PRO — Retail Centres

PRO clusters represent grocery-anchored commercial co-locations at three
scales. The pipeline groups anchor-category retail locations that fall within
a defined span distance, then assigns each group to one of three tiers based
on anchor composition.
PRO clusters represent grocery-anchored commercial co-locations, assigned to
one of four tiers by a predicate-gate test — each tier requires every listed
condition to pass, not an additive score against a threshold.

### Tier definitions

**T1 — Regional:** A cluster containing a grocery hypermarket and a hardware
retailer, plus at least one of a price club, lifestyle retailer, or electronics
retailer. Alternatively: four or more anchor-category retailers in a tight
cluster, or three or more anchors in any tight cluster.
**Tier 1 — Regional:** Cluster contains (Warehouse AND Hypermarket) or
(Lifestyle AND Hypermarket); ranks in the top 10% of its country by primary
catchment population and top 20% by secondary catchment population; has at
least one regionally classified hospital within the tertiary ring; and is not
dominated by a stronger cluster within a 3.0 km disk radius.

**T2 — District:** A cluster containing a grocery hypermarket and a hardware
retailer, within a wider district-level span.
**Tier 2 — District:** Cluster contains a Hypermarket plus Hardware or
Warehouse; ranks in the top quartile of its country by primary catchment
population, and in the top quartile on at least one spend axis (grocery,
hardware, or wholesale); has at least one regional or district hospital
within the tertiary ring.

**T3 — Local:** All remaining anchor pairs that do not qualify for T1 or T2.
**Tier 3 — Local:** Cluster contains Hardware or Warehouse; ranks in the top
half of its country by primary catchment population; has at least one
hospital of any classification within the tertiary ring.

**Tier 4 — Fringe:** All clusters that do not pass the Tier 1, 2, or 3 gates.

Anchor classes: ALPHA_HYPERMARKET (large-format grocery — Walmart, Target,
Carrefour, Kaufland, Tesco, and other national chains), ALPHA_LIFESTYLE
(IKEA), ALPHA_HARDWARE (Home Depot, Lowe's, Leroy Merlin, and similar), and
ALPHA_WAREHOUSE (Costco, Sam's Club, and similar). Neighbourhood grocery
formats (Lidl, Aldi) are deliberately excluded — their density would produce
false-positive clusters below any useful threshold.

### Current dataset

The current production dataset spans thousands of PRO clusters across all
three tiers, covering 17 display countries across North America and Europe.
Tier boundaries are periodically re-tuned as the underlying retail footprint
changes; the T2 district radius has been tightened in successive rebuilds
relative to earlier phases.
As of the most recent published tier count, the production dataset spans
157 Tier 1, 1,462 Tier 2, 2,081 Tier 3, and 6,513 Tier 4 clusters — 10,213
total after deduplication — across seven headline countries (United States,
Mexico, Spain, Germany, Canada, France, and Great Britain) plus additional
markets not yet broken out individually. Tier boundaries are periodically
re-tuned as anchor-chain coverage and the underlying retail footprint change.

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Both layers persist across view transitions — the fade state is maintained
when switching between the Retail View and the BentoBox market detail panel.

## Data Sources

Map and location data © [OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) / [ODbL](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/).

## See also

- [[co-location-methodology|Co-location Methodology]] — the anchor-composition scoring that drives PRO tier assignment
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- [[atlas-top-400-north-america|Top 400 Regional Markets — North America]] — ranked list of suburban-regional PRO markets in NA
- [[atlas-top-400-europe|Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe]] — ranked list of suburban-regional PRO markets in EU
- [[od-catchment-methodology|O-D Catchment Methodology]] — how catchment zones are measured around each cluster centroid

## Data Sources

Map and location data © [OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) / [ODbL](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/).
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