Archetypes

Location Intelligence archetypes are three spatial building types that define the co-location patterns used to identify and rank commercial real estate nodes across the PointSav platform. Each archetype describes a distinct physical and economic relationship between land use, transport infrastructure, and commercial activity.

The three archetypes:

• Professional Centres (PRO) — retail-anchored commercial nodes where grocery hypermarkets, home improvement stores, and price clubs co-locate to serve a Regional Market's consumer population. These are the primary T1/T2/T3 cluster type in the GIS pipeline.
• Vertical Warehouses (VWH) — 3–6 story multi-storey buildings used for light manufacturing, just-in-time logistics, and last-mile delivery. Identified by the presence of hardware anchors, tool rental, and industrial MRO distributors in the absence of grocery retail.
• Parking Structures (PKS) — 3–9 story multi-level car parks located at regional airports and intercity train stations. Their defining relationship is that a Regional Market feeds a Metro Market by plane or train, and the parking structure is the infrastructure that makes this journey possible at scale.

Together the three archetypes cover the principal co-location types observable in commercial real estate datasets across North America and Europe.