See How Many Small-Bay Buildings Your Site Can Hold
Start from a front-load small-bay park with a mix of building sizes, fitted to your parcel inside a perimeter truck loop. You see the building area, building count and dock doors before you price the land.
Will a Front-Load Small-Bay Park Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a front-load small-bay park, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Shallow buildings, many tenants
Small-bay buildings stay shallow so every unit gets its own dock and office. Fitting several of them means more building edges, more courts and more land per square foot.
Docks and cars share a face
With loading on the front, truck courts, dock doors and tenant parking all sit on the same side of each building. Whether that side has the depth for both decides how many buildings fit.
A loop has to reach every building
A perimeter truck loop ties a multi-building park together, but it wraps the whole site and takes land that could have held another building.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the front-load small-bay park 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 front-load small-bay buildings, 28 ft clear, 5 sizes from 37k to 57k sf
- Site layout: docks and truck courts on the front of each building, car parking, perimeter truck loop
- Your edits: building sizes, units, 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.
Front-Load Small-Bay Site Planning FAQ
What is a front-load small-bay industrial building?
A shallow multi-tenant industrial building split into smaller units, with dock doors and the truck court on the front. Each tenant gets its own loading and office on the same face.
What is the difference between front-load and rear-load small bay?
Front-load puts docks, truck courts and car parking on the same side of the building. Rear-load puts office fronts toward the street and docks on the back, which hides loading but needs truck access behind the building.
How much land does a small-bay industrial park need?
It depends on how many buildings you want and how deep each one is with its truck court and parking. Irregular parcel shapes often hold more small buildings than one big one. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit.
Why use five building sizes instead of one?
Mixing five sizes from 37k to 57k sf lets the layout fit larger buildings where the site is wide and smaller ones where it narrows, so less land is left over.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit buildings, units, docks, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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Test This Layout on Your Next Industrial Site
Load your parcel and get the site plan, yield, and costs in one place.