See If a Delivery Station and Its Van Parking Fit Your Site
Start from last-mile delivery stations in a mix of sizes, with van and car parking and trucks served from the frontage, fitted to your parcel. You see building area, dock doors and parking together before you commit capital.
Will a Last-Mile Delivery Station Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a last-mile delivery station, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Vans need the land
A delivery station loads packages onto vans for local routes, so van parking and staging can claim a large share of the site alongside the building.
Trucks and vans share frontage
Trailers and delivery vans both enter from the frontage road. Whether the frontage can take both, without a separate drive on site, decides how much land stays free for building and parking.
Building area versus van space
With five sizes from 100k to 200k sf, the trade is building area against parking. A larger station only works if the vans still have room to stage.
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 stations, 30 ft clear, 5 sizes from 100k to 200k sf
- Site layout: dock court, van and car parking, trucks served from the frontage
- Your edits: building sizes, docks, 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?
The last building in the chain before the customer. Packages arrive by trailer, are loaded onto vans and go out on local delivery routes.
How is a delivery station different from a parcel sort hub?
A sort hub sorts parcels between inbound and outbound trailers. A delivery station receives sorted parcels and loads them onto vans, so it is smaller and gives more of the site to van parking and staging.
How much land does a delivery station need?
Parking drives the answer as much as the building does. The parcel has to fit the station, its dock court and room for van and car parking. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many stations fit.
What does frontage-served mean?
Trucks enter from the frontage road and reach the docks directly, with no drive circling the site. It uses less land for trucks and leaves more for parking and staging.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit building sizes, docks, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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