100 percent corner

The 100 percent corner is the busiest area in a city. Often it is a crossroads of several major streets, and the place with the highest land value and/or where grid plan numbering is based upon.^[1] The term is also used for the place for ideal real estate projects, sometimes considered the intersection of two highways in a suburban area.^[2] The terms "hundred percent location", "hundred percent corner", or "peak land value intersection" may also be used.^[3][4]

Broad and High Streets in Columbus, Ohio

The 100 percent corner is used in research as part of a method to determine a city's downtown area, by measuring a radius (e.g. one mile) from the central intersection.^[5]

Examples

• Broad and High Streets in Columbus, Ohio^[6]
• Fayette Street and South Salina Street in Syracuse, New York^[7][8]
• Fourth and Muhammad Ali Boulevard in Louisville, Kentucky^[9]
• Church and Chapel Streets in New Haven, Connecticut^[10][11]

See also

• City centre