All papers carry CC BY 4.0 licences. Results are preliminary and subject to revision. Forward-looking statements reflect current expectations; actual outcomes may differ materially.
Measuring Retail Anchor Co-location From Open Map Data
Why the convergence of independent retailers is evidence a reader can check, and a forecast is not
Where two or three independently operated national retailers have each committed real construction capital at the same node, that convergence is checkable evidence about a location, not a forecast anyone is asked to trust.
Keywords: retail co-location, site selection, open map data, anchor tenants, commercial real estate
Two Non-Retail Commercial Archetypes in the Metropolitan Ring
Why the band around a city holds two different commercial patterns, and what goes wrong when they are read as one
The ring around a metropolitan core holds two distinct commercial patterns — one organised around people passing through, one around trades and goods movement — and treating them as one category produces worse site decisions than treating them as two.
Keywords: metropolitan fringe, commuter belt, industrial co-location, park and ride, site classification
How Much Regulatory Site Data Is Actually Open and Usable
A cell-by-cell coverage scorecard across eight kinds of data and sixteen countries, gaps included
The public availability of the regulatory data a building site decision depends on is uneven between countries and between kinds of data, and publishing that unevenness cell by cell serves a reader better than a single figure that hides which country and which risk is actually covered.
Keywords: open geospatial data, building codes, flood hazard, data licensing, site assessment
What Qualifies a Regional Market
Reading the validation a national retailer has already paid for, instead of re-deriving it from population
A geography qualifies as a Regional Market on the commercial performance of the national retailers already operating there and on which independent anchor categories have converged — not on how many people live there.
Keywords: regional markets, retail productivity, market qualification, anchor composition, site selection
The 400 Published Regional Markets in North America
The full list, with the metropolitan reference point and cluster composition for every entry
This is the complete North American published set — 400 markets drawn from a 1,121-market qualifying pool — published in full, by country, with no rank and no score, because none is published.
Keywords: regional markets, North America, published dataset, anchor composition, site selection
The 400 Published Regional Markets in Europe
The full list across fifteen countries, with the metropolitan reference point and cluster composition for every entry
This is the complete European published set — 400 markets drawn from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries — published in full, by country, with no rank and no score, because none is published.
Keywords: regional markets, Europe, published dataset, anchor composition, site selection