Regional Markets
content(markets): rewrite all 29 individual Regional Market profiles to Era-B (Wikipedia-sourced); supersede 2 Era-A about pages; wikilink 17 verified TOP-400 entries; fix stale links
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ short_description: "The places, ranked: the Top 400 suburban markets in North Am status: active bcsc_class: current-fact language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC last_edited: 2026-07-04 editor: pointsav-engineering last_edited: 2026-07-10 editor: editorial paired_with: _index.es.md --- @@ -23,8 +23,20 @@ scored by [[about-regional-markets-system|a composite of retail co-location tier civic-anchor presence]]. Country-level co-location indices and tier indices sit alongside the two lists and supply the underlying cluster data the ranking is built from. A small, growing set of individual market profile pages illustrates the shape a full market article takes — population and economic context, submarkets, and the co-location clusters driving the score. The two Top 400 lists already cover all four hundred markets each; individual profile pages exist for a sample of them today, with more commissioned over time as the programme grows. **39 individual market profile pages** exist today (EN+ES pairs), each with population and economic context sourced from Wikipedia. **17 of these are verified entries in the Top 400 ranked lists** and are wikilinked directly from the ranked tables — Plano, Mississauga, Frisco, Tempe, Torrance, Provo, Kenner, and Eagan in North America; Chemnitz-adjacent Krefeld, Kaiserslautern, Bielsko-Biała, Chambéry, Järfälla, York, Breda, Warrington, Cherwell, and Northampton in Europe. **22 profile pages describe markets outside the current Top-400 ranked pool** — either functioning as metro-core reference points for other ranked entries (e.g. Augsburg, Nuremberg, Colorado Springs) or as standalone-secondary markets beyond the 80 km suburban-regional band (e.g. Wichita, Zaragoza, Spokane) — each says so explicitly rather than presenting an unranked market as if it were ranked. Two other "Regional Markets" articles that predate the current co-location system — `about-regional-markets` and `about-regional-market-matrix` — are marked `status: superseded` as of 2026-07-10; they described an earlier 8-market direct-hold matrix with a definition of "Regional Market" that directly contradicts the system now in use. See [[about-regional-markets-system|Regional Markets Intelligence System]] for the current, authoritative framework.