Size a Delivery Station Around Its Own Truck Court
Start from one last-mile delivery station that sizes itself to your parcel, around an internal truck court. You see the building area and the van and car parking left over before you write the LOI.
Will a Delivery Station With a Truck Court Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a delivery station with its own truck court, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
A court inside the site
An internal truck court keeps trailers off the street, but the court and the room trucks need to turn have to fit inside the parcel with the building.
Vans compete for space
Van loading and staging for local routes share the parcel with the truck court. How much room the court needs decides how many van and car stalls the site keeps.
How large the station gets
The station can run from 100k to 200k sf. Where it lands depends on what the court, van parking and setbacks leave, and that sets the building area in your pro forma.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the delivery station 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 delivery station, 30 ft clear, one building that flexes from 100k to 200k sf
- Site layout: internal truck court, van and car parking, truck traffic kept inside the site
- Your edits: building size, docks, court, 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.
Delivery Station Site Planning FAQ
What is a last-mile delivery station?
A building where sorted packages arrive by trailer and are loaded onto vans for local delivery routes. It is the last stop before the customer.
Should I use a truck court or a frontage-served layout?
Use this layout when trucks need to stay off the street or the frontage cannot take truck traffic. The frontage-served layout uses less land for trucks and tests five building sizes instead of one.
How much land does a delivery station with a truck court need?
The court, van parking and building all compete for the same parcel, so layout matters more than acreage. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how large the station gets.
What is an internal truck court?
A truck court inside the site, reached by an on-site drive, where trailers back into the docks. It keeps truck traffic off the street and uses land the frontage-served layout gives to parking.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit the building, docks, court, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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