Tenant Mix & Catchment

What do centres like yours
have that yours
does not?

The app compares your centre's tenant mix with similar shopping centres nearby. It lists the store categories they have and you lack. Every centre in the comparison is shown on the map, so you can check it yourself.

Example: Los Angeles County · 1,919 centres Built on public data · no paid data needed

The decision this helps with

Which type of tenant should take your next vacant unit?

Before you talk to any brand, you decide on a category: beauty, a pharmacy, women's clothing. That choice shapes the leasing plan. It still holds if one prospective tenant walks away.

The app is built for landlords and centre asset managers. Think of an owner of a neighbourhood or community centre, a leasing team at a REIT, or a family office with a few retail strips. Leasing agents and investment committees can use the same view.

For: landlords · asset managers Decision: what to lease next Also useful to: leasing agents · investment committees

24of the 64 similar centres nearby have a cosmetics, beauty or perfume store. The centre being studied does not.

This is the kind of answer you get: a missing category, and how many similar centres have it. There is no score or black-box rating.

All 64 centres are on the map. Click any of them to see what it contains.

The problem today

Existing tools give you a score. They don't show you what it was compared against.

Void analysis already exists

In the UK it is called gap analysis. Several commercial products offer it, and at least one is priced for a single-centre landlord.

They rank brands with a score

The score comes from comparison centres picked from the vendor's own paid data. You cannot see which centres were used.

Your own data is locked away

Exclusive-use clauses and co-tenancy terms sit inside signed leases. In practice, many teams end up working from a spreadsheet.

Rents, sales, footfall and floor area all need paid data. Knowing which store categories each centre has does not. That comes from a free public business register, so the app can show you the full list of centres it compared.

How the comparison works

Similar centres are chosen by size and distance.

Size

Industry guidelines describe neighbourhood, community and regional centres as having roughly 5–20, 15–40 and 40–80 stores. The app counts the stores in each centre and compares yours only with centres of the same size class.

Catchment

The catchment is the area a centre draws its shoppers from. The same guidelines give a typical range for each centre type, such as 3–6 miles for a community centre. The app uses that range as its starting point and states it on screen.

A rough guide

The guidelines say themselves that these figures are only typical. Store count stands in for floor area, which is not publicly available. The app says this on screen.

Blue barhow many similar centres have the category

◆ Your centre has itshown as a shape, so it prints clearly

Amber bara common category your centre lacks

Blocked by a clauseruled out by an exclusive-use clause

A "centre" in this app is a cluster of businesses found in the register, not a legal property. There is no parcel, owner or site area. The clusters are found with a published method for mapping US retail centres. For your own centre, you upload its tenant list.

The app

Missing categories, a map, and a chart of what similar centres carry.

Tenant Mix and Catchment app: the list of missing categories on the left, the catchment ring and its 64 similar centres on the map, and bars showing how many of them carry each category on the right.

Screenshot of the working app, 3 September 2026.

Left: the answer. The categories your centre lacks, each with a count such as "24 of 64 similar centres".
Centre: the map. Your catchment ring and every similar centre inside it. Moving the map does not change the results.
Right: the chart. One bar per category, showing how many similar centres have it.
The legend works as a filter. Click a category type to hide or show it.
A note bar stays on screen. It gives the data date and what the app does not do.

A worked example

From 1,919 centres to 64 similar ones.

Each step is shown, so you can follow how the list of similar centres was built.

1,919 centres in Los Angeles County
− 1,707 more than 6 miles away (straight line)
− 147 not community-sized (15–40 stores)
= 64 similar centres
The studied centre has 10 store categories. The 64 similar centres have 39 between them.
⇒ 29 missing categories, of which 22 fit a standard shop unit

Change the size class or the distance and the list of similar centres, the chart and the missing categories all update together.

Categories across the similar centres64 centres

Full-Service Restaurants

63 ◆

Limited-Service Restaurants

60 ◆

Gasoline Stations w/ Conv. StoresGasoline Stations w/ Conv. Stores

41

Supermarkets & Other GrocerySupermarkets & Other Grocery

38 ◆

Cosmetics, Beauty & PerfumeCosmetics, Beauty & Perfume

24

Electronics StoresElectronics Stores

22

Women's Clothing StoresWomen's Clothing Stores

22

Pharmacies and Drug StoresPharmacies and Drug Stores

21 ◆

An amber bar with no ◆ is a gap. Cosmetics and beauty is one: 24 of 64 similar centres have it, and this centre does not. The largest gap, a petrol station, is flagged "not a shop unit" but kept in the count so nothing is hidden.

Your leases, taken into account

Click a category and the map shows which centres have it.

Further down the app: categories blocked by exclusive-use clauses, a note on which retail types the register covers, a chart of centre sizes, and the mix of store types across the similar centres.

Click a bar and the map shows only the similar centres with that category. The other charts and the list update to match. Press Esc to undo one step at a time.

Some gaps are ones you cannot fill anyway.

An exclusive-use clause gives an existing tenant the sole right to a category in your centre. Under California law such clauses can rule a category out. They sit only in your signed leases, so outside tools never see them.

Upload a list of your clauses. Blocked categories drop off the list, with the clause that blocks them.
The count updates. It shows how many of the 29 missing categories you have ruled out.
Your list stays private. It is not saved or sent anywhere, and it clears when you reload the page.

Where the data comes from

Why you can trust the numbers.

Public source

Store categories come from a public business register for Los Angeles County, dated 6 May 2020. Each business is classified by its official industry code.

Nothing hidden

Every similar centre is on the map and can be opened. The size class, the catchment distance and the method used to find centres are all shown on screen.

Clear labels

The example centre is built from the register. It is not any landlord's actual site plan, and every screen and export says so.

One limit to keep in mind: the register is from 2020, so some stores will have opened or closed since. Household and spending figures shown alongside come from published government sources.

Know the limits

What this app does not do.

Some retail types are not in the register. Department stores, warehouse clubs, sporting goods, book shops, office supply and florists are missing, so they can never show up as gaps. The app says this on screen.
It compares tenant lists. It does not find the best possible mix, because that needs tenant sales data.
No sales, rents, yields or values. It gathers the evidence. Pricing and valuation stay with your team and your valuer.

One catchment, measured in a straight line. No drive times.
No property records. A centre is a group of businesses, with no parcel, owner or site area.
No floor area, rents, tenant sales or footfall. These are shown as "not available", never as zero.
No legal advice. It does not decide whether an exclusive-use clause applies.

Try it on your centre

Your tenants.
Your leases.

Bring your centre's tenant list and location, and a list of your exclusive-use and co-tenancy clauses. We add a public business register for your market. That gives you the comparison with similar centres, which is hard to put together on your own.

It can be set up for other markets. The business register, the category list and the centre size guidelines can all be swapped for local ones. Nothing is tied to California's rules.

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© 2026 Tabaqat · Built on Strata. Example built on Los Angeles County, using a business register dated 6 May 2020. A comparison of tenant lists, not a valuation, rent estimate, forecast or legal opinion.