See If a Cross-Loaded Warehouse Fits Your Parcel
Find out how much cross-loaded warehouse your parcel can carry. The building sizes itself to your site, with docks on both long sides and a ring road, so you know the building area, dock doors and coverage before you pay for a full site plan.
Will a Cross-Loaded Warehouse Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a cross-loaded warehouse, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Courts on both sides
Docks on both long sides mean a truck court and trailer parking on each one. The parcel has to be deep enough for the building and both courts.
A ring road takes land
A ring road around the building lets trucks reach either court and keeps them moving, and it takes a drive lane of land on every side of the building.
Irregular sites split the box
On an irregular parcel, one building may not use the land well. The layout can place more than one cross-loaded building, each sized to the part of the site it sits on.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the cross-loaded warehouse 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: cross-loaded warehouses with docks on both long sides, one building type that flexes to fit the site
- Site layout: truck courts on both long sides, trailer and car parking, ring road
- 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.
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Cross-Loaded Warehouse Site Planning FAQ
What is a cross-loaded warehouse?
A warehouse with dock doors on both long sides, so freight can come in one side and go out the other. Each long side has its own truck court.
What is the difference between a cross-loaded and a single-loaded warehouse?
A single-loaded warehouse has docks and a truck court on one side only, so it fits a shallower site. A cross-loaded warehouse doubles the dock wall and needs room for a court on both sides.
How much land does a cross-loaded warehouse need?
Depth matters more than acreage. The site has to hold the building, a truck court on each long side and the ring road around it. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit and how large each one gets.
Does this layout place one building or several?
It uses one cross-loaded building type that flexes in size. On a regular parcel that can be a single building; on an irregular site it places more than one to use the land.
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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