Retail Centres
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 title: "Retail Centres (PRO)" title: "Retail centres (PRO)" slug: retail-centres category: site-selection type: concept @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ audience: vendor-public bcsc_class: public-disclosure-safe language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC language: en last_edited: 2026-06-20 last_edited: 2026-07-11 editor: pointsav-engineering paired_with: site-selection/retail-centres.es.md short_description: "Retail Centres (PRO) are neighbourhood commercial centres anchored by grocery, pharmacy, bank, and casual dining — one of three Location Intelligence co-location archetypes, and the base map product for the site-selection dataset." @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The T2 span boundary was set to 2.5 km in the most recent rebuild, tightening th ## Why PRO is the base map Retail Centres anchor the entire Location Intelligence dataset because grocery-anchored co-location is the most stable and widely distributed commercial pattern. Almost every populated catchment has a grocery anchor; the centre that forms around it is a reliable proxy for residential commercial gravity. The Urban Fringe and Commuter archetypes are defined partly in relation to PRO clusters — Urban Fringe sites are identified by the *absence* of grocery anchors, and Commuter sites reference the nearest T1/T2 Retail Centre as the [[about-regional-markets|regional market]] generating their parking demand. Retail Centres anchor the entire Location Intelligence dataset because grocery-anchored co-location is the most stable and widely distributed commercial pattern. Almost every populated catchment has a grocery anchor; the centre that forms around it is a reliable proxy for residential commercial gravity. The Urban Fringe and Commuter archetypes are defined partly in relation to PRO clusters — Urban Fringe sites are identified by the *absence* of grocery anchors, and Commuter sites reference the nearest T1/T2 Retail Centre as the [[about-regional-markets-system|regional market]] generating their parking demand. ## See also