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The buildings-and-places record for Woodfine Capital Projects Inc.: six development classes, the design system behind them, and the site-selection method built on established retail anchors. Articles span regional markets across North America and Europe, the planned development program, and the maps and data behind the analysis.

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Retail co-location intelligence — overviewIndex

Woodfine's co-location intelligence platform classifies commercial nodes across a cross-border network of North American and European retail markets by anchor convergence — the independent co-location of hypermarkets, warehouse clubs, and home improvement superstores at the same trade area. Each node is validated not by analyst forecasts, but by the independent capital commitments of the retailers who located there. Convergence is measured per the co-location methodology and classified by the deterministic ranking system; the population and spend inputs are documented in trade-area data sources and the geographic policy in the regional market matrix.

The platform is operated at gis.woodfinegroup.com.

Strategic objective

Large-format retailers do not locate arbitrarily. Supercenter operators, warehouse clubs, and home improvement superstores each independently apply capital-intensive site selection criteria — traffic counts, household income density, road-network accessibility, and competitive positioning. When two or three such operators converge on the same node within a given corridor, that convergence signals a validated commercial location: one where multiple independent parties have independently committed capital to serve the same trade area. The qualifying anchor adjacency requirement is binary, not a matter of degree.

The co-location intelligence system identifies and classifies those nodes using a deterministic predicate-gate model. The output is a tiered index of sites — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — which can be filtered by region, country, and secondary radius.

Geographic coverage and scale

As of the most recent full processing run (2026-08-06), the platform evaluates co-location clusters across 24 countries spanning North America and Europe, providing a cross-border view of retail density and commercial defensibility. Country coverage expands as new chain data is ingested; the live GIS platform always reflects current coverage, and the table below is a dated snapshot verified against that same run.

Region Countries Anchor operators
United States US Walmart, Target, IKEA, The Home Depot, Costco
Canada CA Walmart, IKEA, Real Canadian Superstore
Mexico MX Walmart, IKEA, The Home Depot
Spain ES IKEA, Carrefour, Alcampo, E.Leclerc
Italy IT IKEA, Carrefour, Ipercoop, Bennet
France FR Carrefour, Auchan, IKEA, Leroy Merlin, Costco
Germany DE Kaufland, IKEA, OBI, Hornbach
United Kingdom GB Tesco, Sainsbury's, IKEA, B&Q
Netherlands NL Albert Heijn XL, IKEA, Praxis
Austria AT Interspar, IKEA, Hornbach
Portugal PT Continente, Auchan, IKEA, Leroy Merlin
Greece GR IKEA, Sklavenitis, Praktiker
Poland PL IKEA, Carrefour, E.Leclerc, Auchan
Czechia CZ Kaufland, IKEA, OBI
Hungary HU Tesco, Auchan, IKEA, OBI
Slovakia SK Kaufland, IKEA, OBI
Romania RO Carrefour, IKEA, Dedeman
Bulgaria BG Kaufland, IKEA, Praktiker
Croatia HR Kaufland, Interspar, Super Konzum, Bauhaus
Nordics SE · NO · DK · FI · IS IKEA, Bilka, Prisma, K-Citymarket, OBS Coop

Data foundations

The platform integrates three primary data sources to ensure high-fidelity spatial analysis:

  1. Business location data (Retail Operators): Sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors, filtered by canonical brand Wikidata identifiers to ensure consistent brand-family matching across borders. As of 2 May 2026, the dataset contains 31,219+ individual retail locations across 60+ chains.
  2. Place data (Civic Infrastructure): Hospital and medical center records sourced from the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset (2026-04-15 release). This tertiary layer provides the civic context required for the Regional and District tier gates.
  3. Transportation data (Logistics Support): Aviation facility records from Overture Maps Foundation, retained for future tertiary scoring dimensions.

Material assumptions for current dataset counts include the continued availability of OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps Foundation data under their respective licenses (ODbL and CDLA Permissive 2.0). [osm-odbl] [overture-maps-cdla-2-0]

Site index and tier classification

Every scored node is classified into one of four tiers — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — covered by the co-location tier system. A cluster earns its tier by clearing predicate gates on anchor composition, national catchment rank, civic infrastructure, and spatial non-overlap, described in full in the V3 catchment ranking methodology.

Current site counts by tier and country are published live on the GIS platform rather than restated here; a wiki snapshot goes stale between data-refresh cycles, while the platform updates on every processing run.

Interactive surface

The Geographic Information System (GIS) platform renders the tiered site index as an interactive map at gis.woodfinegroup.com. The interface supports real-time filtering by cluster tier and catchment radius (1 km, 2 km, or 3 km).

The platform is updated when new chain data is ingested or when tier assignment is recalibrated. All dataset counts and version identifiers are displayed in the platform header to ensure operational transparency.

Provenance

  • Verification: Country coverage verified against the GIS platform's live cluster dataset and its most recent full processing run, as of 2026-08-06.
  • Forward-looking disclosure: European tertiary data expansion targets are intended outcomes, labeled per [ni-51-102].

See also

References

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