Site Selection

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[[co-location-intelligence-overview|Retail Co-Location Intelligence]] is the entry point: systematic geographic analysis that ranks sites by where large-format national retailers converge. [[co-location-methodology|Co-Location Methodology]], [[co-location-strategy|Co-Location Strategy]], and [[co-location-investment-thesis|the Co-Location Investment Thesis]] set out the deterministic framework, the site-positioning logic, and the underlying investment case in turn. [[power-centre-co-location-thesis|The Power Centre Co-Location Thesis]] and [[institutional-retail-halo|the Institutional Retail Halo]] describe how proximity to an operating Power Centre transfers necessity-retail demand stability onto adjacent office space. [[power-centre-land-availability|Power Centre Land Availability]] covers where Woodfine's Development Sites come from, and [[co-location-convergence-thesis|the Co-Location Convergence Thesis]] connects that land-sourcing method to extended-hours professional occupancy and the live/work/play shift in shopping-centre design. [[location-intelligence-archetypes|Location Intelligence Archetypes]] covers the three co-location archetypes a site can belong to.

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- [[co-location-intelligence-overview]] — Systematic geographic analysis identifying and ranking retail sites where large-format categories converge within defined catchment radii.
- [[co-location-methodology]] — A deterministic spatial-analysis framework that ranks commercial real-estate nodes by the objective convergence of independent, capital-intensive retail operators — independent corroboration in place of market sentiment.
- [[co-location-intelligence-overview]] — Systematic geographic analysis identifying and classifying retail sites where large-format categories converge within defined catchment radii.
- [[co-location-methodology]] — A deterministic spatial-analysis framework that classifies commercial real-estate nodes by the objective convergence of independent, capital-intensive retail operators — independent corroboration in place of market sentiment.
- [[co-location-strategy]] — The strategy of positioning professional centres adjacent to national retail anchors to transpose retail resilience onto office demand.
- [[co-location-investment-thesis]] — The investment thesis that commercial nodes where institutional-grade retailers converge within defined catchment radii present objectively verifiable, superior site characteristics.
- [[power-centre-co-location-thesis]] — Site-selection discipline requiring Qualified Investment sites to co-locate with operating Power Centre anchors, aligning development to proven National Retailer Rollout Programs.
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- [[power-centres]] — Retail hubs anchored by multiple big-box national retailers, serving as the primary site-selection anchors for Woodfine co-location deployments.
- [[co-location-anchors]] — Large-format national retailers whose verified presence within defined proximity thresholds is the binary qualifying criterion for commercial node inclusion.
- [[co-location-target-hierarchy]] — Three-tier target classification in Woodfine's co-location dataset — Primary (Walmart Supercentre), Secondary (Home Depot, Costco), Tertiary (universities, medical centres).
- [[co-location-tier-nomenclature]] — 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.
- [[co-location-tier-nomenclature]] — 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.
- [[national-tenants]] — Revenue-driving professional occupiers — academic, medical, and civic — whose institutional identity anchors building credibility and stabilizes the mix-of-use tenant composition.
- [[retail-brand-family-taxonomy]] — Every retail location on the co-location map carries a brand family classification that determines how the location is displayed and, for some families, whether it contributes to cluster scoring. The taxonomy was designed around the anchor types used in the co-location methodology while remaining extensible to the full range of ingested operators.
- [[retail-centres]] — 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.
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- [[co-location-cluster-formation]] — The pipeline step that converts each qualifying anchor store into a candidate co-location cluster; overlapping candidates from a single trade area are resolved by deduplication before ranking inputs are aggregated.
- [[cluster-deduplication-threshold]] — The co-location index pipeline deduplicates overlapping clusters that represent the same commercial zone using a fixed, tightly-set proximity threshold, retaining the cluster with the higher secondary operator count. An earlier, substantially wider threshold was found to suppress legitimately distinct commercial nodes in dense suburban corridors.
- [[co-location-ranking-system]] — The deterministic mechanics behind cluster ranking — country-relative percentile axes, the overlap test between neighbouring clusters, and the tiebreak order applied within a tier.
- [[co-location-tiering-scoring]] — Tier scoring for co-location clusters — what the T1–T3 composition tiers measure, the DBSCAN parameters that form clusters, and what the tiers do not claim.
- [[co-location-ranking-system]] — The deterministic mechanics behind cluster ranking on the co-location platform — country-relative percentile axes, the overlap test between neighbouring clusters, and the tiebreak order applied within a tier.
- [[co-location-tiering-scoring]] — Tier scoring for co-location clusters — what the T1–T3 composition tiers measure, what they explicitly do not claim, and why a headline cluster count is a model output rather than a measurement.
- [[catchment-ranking-methodology-v3]] — The V3 tier-assignment methodology assigns each co-location cluster to one of four tiers using binary predicate gates — composition, national catchment rank, civic classification, and spatial overlap — replacing the prior composite-score system (May 2026).
- [[geographic-co-location-methodology]] — Five-degree cluster system scoring retail node proximity from Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary target co-occurrence to rank development sites by anchor strength.
- [[geographic-co-location-methodology]] — Predicate-gate tier system scoring retail co-location clusters by anchor composition, catchment rank, and civic presence to rank development sites by anchor strength.
- [[od-catchment-methodology]] — Each co-location cluster is assigned two straight-line distance bands — a primary zone within 35 km and a secondary zone from 35 km to 150 km — that determine the population and spend attributed to it.
- [[trade-area-methodology]] — Honest labelling of demand geography — why straight-line distance bands are never called catchments, and the planned move to isochrones and observed origins.
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