Wichita, United States
docs(projects): rename markets hub 'Screening Universe' section to 'Market Coverage' (H2/lede/short_description/index_group), retire 'screening' as house vocabulary wiki-wide -- replaced with qualification-gate language across 61 market-profile/country-page/system articles and 2 site-selection articles that doesn't imply a ranked filter-down (66 files)
@@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ quality: stub status: active audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact short_description: "Kansas's largest city, well beyond commuting distance of any major metro — outside the current Top-400 screening band." short_description: "Kansas's largest city, well beyond commuting distance of any major metro — outside the current Top-400 qualifying band." paired_with: markets/us-ks-wichita.es.md last_edited: 2026-08-25 last_edited: 2026-08-26 editor: editorial --- Wichita, historically the "Air Capital of the World," does not currently appear in the North American Top-400 Regional Markets list. Its nearest major metros are far beyond the 80 km outer edge of the suburban-regional band the screening applies. outer edge of the suburban-regional band the qualification applies. ## Overview @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ warehouse district. Wichita does not currently appear in the [[atlas-top-400-north-america|Top 400 Regional Markets — North America]] list. This is not a data defect; its distance from Oklahoma City and Kansas City places it well outside [[about-regional-markets-system|the co-location screening system's]] 15–80 km suburban-regional band, classifying it as standalone-secondary. and Kansas City places it well outside [[about-regional-markets-system|the co-location qualification system's]] 15–80 km suburban-regional band, classifying it as standalone-secondary. This is consistent with the 2026-07-04 operator decision that a Wichita Development Region profile outside the Top-400 list is an expected, acceptable pattern.