Find the Largest Cross-Dock Building Your Site Can Hold
Start from one cross-dock building that sizes itself to your parcel, with truck courts on both sides and a perimeter truck loop. You see how big the box gets, and its dock count, before you price it.
How Big a Cross-Dock Building Will My Site Hold?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a single cross-dock building, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Size is the open question
On a site that holds one cross-dock, the real question is how large. The building can land anywhere from 550k to 800k sf depending on depth and frontage.
Courts grow with the building
A longer building means longer truck courts and more trailer parking on both sides. The site has to keep pace on each long side as the box stretches.
The loop wraps the box
A perimeter truck loop keeps trailers off the car parking, and the land it takes on every side comes out of what the building could use.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the cross-dock building your team would build, tune it to your standards, and finish with one model for the site, plan, tabulation and pro forma.
Your parcel and its constraints
- Site boundary: pick the parcel from built-in parcel data with current owner info, draw it, enter metes and bounds, or import a KML/KMZ file
- Setbacks and frontage: front, side and rear setbacks set to the parcel edges
- Zoning: FAR, building and impervious coverage, height limits and parking ratios, pulled in for your parcel so you don't have to dig through the zoning code
- Easements: areas the layout keeps buildings out of
- Site conditions: flood zones, wetlands and topography from Site Intelligence
Every layout starts inside your site's real constraints.
Your product, fine-tuned on the site
- Product: 1-story cross-dock building, 36 ft clear, 1 flexible size from 550k to 800k sf
- Site layout: truck courts on both long sides, trailer and car parking, perimeter truck loop
- Your edits: building size, docks, courts, parking and circulation
You see the building your team would propose, on your parcel.
A source of truth for the deal
- Site plan geometry: buildings, courts, parking and drives drawn to the parcel
- Tabulation for this product: building sf, dock doors, trailer and car stalls against what's required, site coverage and FAR
- Earthwork: cut and fill for the layout
- Financials: the geometry turned into development costs, revenue and returns
- Shareable results: a link or PDF report for your team, partners and other stakeholders
You know whether the deal works, with numbers to back it.
TestFit is transformational. We've shaved days off of our analysis by using the AI capabilities of this software, which allows us to make smarter decisions faster.
Cross-Dock Building Site Planning FAQ
What is a cross-dock distribution center?
A distribution building with dock doors on both long sides. Freight is received on one side and shipped from the other, with a truck court on each side.
Should I plan one flexible cross-dock or several fixed sizes?
One flexible building suits a site meant for a single large user, since the box grows to fill the parcel. A layout with several fixed sizes suits a multi-building park where buildings have to fit around each other.
How much land does a single cross-dock building need?
Depth matters more than acreage. The site has to fit the building, a truck court and trailer parking on both long sides, and the truck loop. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how large the building gets.
How does a flexible building size work?
The layout holds one cross-dock building type that sizes itself to the parcel, from 550k to 800k sf, with its courts, parking and truck loop. You can push the building larger after it generates.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit the building, docks, courts, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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