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The Markets covers where we look. This category holds the screening universe behind site selection — the Top 400 set, the tier and co-location indices behind them, and a profile page for every market that has one today.

Start here: Regional Markets Intelligence System

Screening Universe

Regional Markets Intelligence System is the reference article for the co-location analysis system, and Regional Market Definition sets out what qualifies a settlement as a Regional Market on the map. The Co-location Tier System explains the four-tier classification and how it applies across North American and European markets. The Top 400 — North America and the Top 400 — Europe are the two qualifying sets: four hundred suburban commuter-belt markets per continent that meet the co-location anchor-composition gates. No rank or score is published for any market in either set.

• Regional Markets intelligence system — Reference article for the co-location analysis system that identifies suburban retail markets in North America and Europe.
• Regional market definition — Spatial containers on the location intelligence map — how settlements with co-location presence differ from Regional Markets, and why coverage is not market strength.
• Co-location tier system — The four-tier classification — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — assigned to every co-location cluster on the platform, the predicate gates that determine it, and how the system applies across North American and European markets.
• Top 400 Regional Markets — North America — Set of 400 qualifying North American suburban Regional Markets, meeting the co-location anchor-composition gates. No rank or score is published.
• Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe — Set of 399 verified distinct European Regional Markets across 400 list positions (one position vacant pending a genuine 400th entry) under the corrected suburban-regional methodology. No rank or score is published.

Co-Location Indices by Country

Seven country-level co-location indices supply the underlying cluster data the continental rankings are built from, each ranking named-anchor convergence node by node within its own country: United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Poland, and the Nordics.

• atlas-co-location-index-us — Ranked index of the top co-location nodes in the United States, evaluated by the named-anchor methodology across Walmart Supercentre anchor locations.
• atlas-co-location-index-canada — Ranked index of high-value co-location nodes in Canada, evaluating Walmart Supercentre anchor sites by proximity to Costco, Home Depot, and civic infrastructure.
• Co-location index: Mexico — Ranked index of top commercial convergence nodes in Mexico, identifying sites where Walmart Supercentre anchors cluster with Home Depot, Costco, and civic infrastructure.
• atlas-co-location-index-spain — Ranked index of co-location nodes across Spain, anchored by IKEA with secondary validation from Leroy Merlin and Makro within the Iberian Peninsula.
• atlas-co-location-index-italy — Ranked index of institutional-grade co-location nodes in Italy, centered on IKEA anchor locations with secondary convergence from Leroy Merlin and Makro.
• atlas-co-location-index-poland — Ranked index of high-growth commercial convergence nodes in Poland, where IKEA anchors cluster with Makro, Leroy Merlin, Auchan, and civic infrastructure.
• Co-location index: Nordics — Ranked index of commercial convergence sites across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, anchored by IKEA with Nordic secondary operators.

Country Breakouts

Nine country-level Regional Market indices filter the continental Top 400 tables down to a single country's entries: Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece, Croatia, and Norway.

• Canada — Regional Market index — Index of Canadian regional commercial real estate markets meeting co-location screening thresholds.
• United States — Regional Market index — Index of US regional commercial real estate markets meeting co-location screening thresholds across all major census regions.
• United Kingdom — Regional Market index — Index of UK regional commercial real estate markets meeting co-location screening thresholds outside London and the South East.
• Spain — Regional Market index — Index of Spanish regional commercial real estate markets meeting co-location screening thresholds.
• Italy — Regional Market index — Index of the 21 Italian entries in the Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe list, filtered from the continental table with metro-reference groupings.
• Poland — Regional Market index — Index of the 16 Polish entries in the Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe list, filtered from the continental table with metro-reference groupings.
• Greece — Regional Market index — Index of the 7 Greek entries in the Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe list; a pilot-batch country page with 7 new stub market profiles built 2026-08-25.
• Croatia — Regional Market index — Index of the 9 Croatian entries in the Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe list; a country page with 9 new stub market profiles built 2026-08-25, following the locked wave-1.5 template.
• Norway — Regional Market index — Index of the 9 Norwegian entries in the Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe list; a country page with 9 new stub market profiles built 2026-08-25, following the locked wave-1.5 template.

Market Profiles

41 individual market profile pages exist today (EN+ES pairs), each with population and economic context sourced from Wikipedia.

Verified TOP400 entries (16): co-location cluster composition current as of the 2026-08-07 dataset. No rank or score is published for any entry; list order below is alphabetical by profile slug, not ordinal.

Note: Greenville–Spartanburg, United States appears in the North American Top 400 table linked from this profile, but the profile page itself describes Spartanburg as a metro-core reference point rather than a ranked suburban entry. This is a pre-existing inconsistency in the underlying data, not resolved by this edit — flagged for a future data-reconciliation pass rather than corrected unilaterally here.

Reference-only profiles (16) — real places that are not currently part of the TOP400 set: either metro-core reference points for other entries, or standalone markets outside the 15–80 km suburban band. Each profile page says so explicitly rather than presenting a market outside the set as if it were included.

North America: Lethbridge, Canada, Kelowna, Canada, Moncton, Canada, Barrie–Innisfil, Canada, Regina, Canada, Colorado Springs, United States, Fort Collins, United States, Wichita, United States, Spokane, United States, Madison, United States.

Europe: Zaragoza, Spain, Burgos, Spain, Valladolid, Spain, Pamplona, Spain, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Inverness, Scotland.

Retired (2026-08-17), not part of the current TOP400 or reference-only counts above (9): seven German city profiles plus Chambéry (France) and Breda (Netherlands) — those three countries are deliberately excluded from the current Regional Markets methodology (locked 2026-06-30). The pages remain available for historical reference; the Auto-generated list below includes them, each labelled retired, for completeness — none are cited as TOP400 or reference-only entries above.

Correction (2026-08-24): the count split above was previously mislabelled 20 verified / 21 reference-only. The current, accurate split against the live 2026-08-07 dataset and the 2026-08-17 retirements is 16 verified / 16 reference-only / 9 retired (41 total).

• Lethbridge, Canada — Southern Alberta market, 215 km from Calgary — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Kelowna, Canada — Okanagan Valley market, 390 km from Vancouver — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Moncton, Canada — Maritime Canada's commercial hub — outside the current Top-400 set (no single dominant major metro core in the region).
• Barrie–Innisfil, Canada — Central Ontario market, 90 km from Toronto — just outside the current Top-400 set's 80 km band.
• Mississauga, Canada — North American Regional Market — suburb of Toronto, 24.9 km; 2 Regional-tier, 1 District-tier, and 2 Local-tier clusters.
• Regina, Canada — Saskatchewan's provincial capital — outside the current Top-400 set (no nearby major metro core).
• de-bw-ulm — Baden-Württemberg city functioning as a metro-core reference point for surrounding suburban markets — not itself in the Top-400 set.
• de-by-augsburg — Bavarian city functioning as a metro-core reference point for surrounding suburban markets — not itself in the Top-400 set.
• de-by-nurnberg — Bavarian metro-core reference point for surrounding suburban markets — not itself in the Top-400 set.
• de-nw-bielefeld — North Rhine-Westphalia city functioning as a metro-core reference point for surrounding suburban markets — not itself in the Top-400 set.
• de-nw-krefeld — European Regional Market — suburb of Düsseldorf, 19.4 km; 2 Regional-tier clusters.
• de-rp-kaiserslautern — European Regional Market — suburb of Mannheim, 54 km; 2 Regional-tier clusters.
• de-th-erfurt — Thuringia's state capital — outside the current Top-400 set (no nearby major metro core).
• Zaragoza, Spain — Aragon's regional capital, roughly 300 km from Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia alike — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Burgos, Spain — Castile and León city, 244 km from Madrid — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Valladolid, Spain — Castile and León's largest city, 235 km from Madrid — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Pamplona, Spain — Navarre's regional capital, 117 km from Bilbao — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain — Basque Country capital — outside the current Top-400 set (no nearby major metro core in the dataset).
• fr-chambery — European Regional Market — suburb of Grenoble; 1 Regional-tier and 1 Local-tier cluster.
• Cherwell, England — European Regional Market — suburb of Oxford; 2 Local-tier clusters.
• Chester, England — Cheshire heritage city, 30-40 miles from Liverpool — not currently a Top-400 entry despite sitting within the suburban-regional distance band.
• Northampton, England — European Regional Market — suburb of Coventry; 2 Local-tier clusters.
• Warrington, England — European Regional Market — suburb of Wigan; 1 District-tier and 1 Local-tier cluster.
• York, England — European Regional Market — suburb of Leeds; 1 District-tier and 2 Local-tier clusters.
• Inverness, Scotland — Scottish Highlands capital, well beyond commuting distance of Edinburgh or Glasgow — outside the current Top-400 set.
• nl-breda — European Regional Market — suburb of Rotterdam; 1 Regional-tier and 1 Local-tier cluster.
• Bielsko-Biała, Poland — European Regional Market — suburb of Katowice, 48 km; 2 Regional-tier clusters.
• Järfälla, Sweden — European Regional Market — suburb of Stockholm; 1 Regional-tier cluster.
• Tempe, United States — North American Regional Market — suburb of Phoenix; 1 Regional-tier and 2 Local-tier clusters.
• Torrance, United States — North American Regional Market — suburb of Los Angeles; 1 Regional-tier cluster.
• Colorado Springs, United States — Colorado metro-core reference point for a surrounding suburban market — not itself in the Top-400 set.
• Fort Collins, United States — Northern Colorado market, 60 miles from Denver — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Wichita, United States — Kansas's largest city, well beyond commuting distance of any major metro — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Kenner, United States — North American Regional Market — suburb of New Orleans; 1 District-tier and 1 Local-tier cluster.
• Eagan, United States — North American Regional Market — suburb of Minneapolis; 1 Regional-tier cluster.
• Greenville–Spartanburg, United States — South Carolina Upstate metro-core reference point for surrounding suburban markets — not itself in the Top-400 set.
• Frisco, United States — North American Regional Market — suburb of Dallas, 44 km; 3 Regional-tier and 1 District-tier cluster.
• Plano, United States — North American Regional Market — suburb of Dallas, 28.1 km; 3 Regional-tier, 2 District-tier, and 1 Local-tier cluster.
• Provo–Orem, United States — North American Regional Market — suburb of Salt Lake City; 1 Regional-tier cluster.
• Spokane, United States — Eastern Washington's second-largest city, 280 miles from Seattle — outside the current Top-400 set.
• Madison, United States — Wisconsin's capital and second-largest city, 77 miles from Milwaukee — outside the current Top-400 set.

Superseded and Retired

Two "Regional Markets" articles predate the current co-location system: Regional Markets and the Regional Market Matrix describe an earlier 8-market direct-hold matrix with a definition of "Regional Market" that directly contradicts the system now in use; both are marked status: superseded. Three country index pages — France, Germany, and Netherlands — are marked status: retired, since those countries are deliberately excluded from the current Regional Markets methodology (locked 2026-06-30). All five remain available for historical reference only.

• about-regional-markets — SUPERSEDED (2026-07-10) — see about-regional-markets-system for the current framework. Prior definition described a narrower, standalone-city investment matrix (50k-300k population, explicitly not metro suburbs), pre-dating the 18-country suburban co-location system now in use.
• about-regional-market-matrix — SUPERSEDED (2026-07-10) — see about-regional-markets-system for the current framework. Prior definition described MCorp's 8-target-market direct-hold matrix, pre-dating the 18-country suburban co-location system now in use.
• atlas-france — RETIRED (2026-08-17) — France is deliberately excluded from the current Regional Markets methodology (locked 2026-06-30). The content below is historical and does not appear in the current Top 400 set.
• atlas-germany — RETIRED (2026-08-17) — Germany is deliberately excluded from the current Regional Markets methodology (locked 2026-06-30). The content below is historical and does not appear in the current Top 400 set.
• atlas-netherlands — RETIRED (2026-08-17) — Netherlands is deliberately excluded from the current Regional Markets methodology (locked 2026-06-30). The content below is historical and does not appear in the current Top 400 set.

See also

• Site Selection