See How Much Fulfillment Space Your Site Can Hold
Start from a flexible-size cross-dock building for large-item fulfillment that sizes itself to your parcel, with trucks served from the frontage. You see the building area and dock count the site supports before you make an offer.
Will a Large-Item Fulfillment Center Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For large-item fulfillment, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Where in the range it lands
Setbacks, easements and an irregular lot line decide whether the parcel carries a building near 990k sf or closer to 1.2M sf. That gap moves building area and dock count.
Room for a cross-dock building
A cross-dock building for bulky goods needs depth for docks, truck courts and trailer parking. If the parcel runs short on depth, building area comes out first.
Frontage and curb cuts
With no on-site truck loop, truck access comes from the frontage road. Frontage length and where curb cuts are allowed decide whether the site works and how much land stays in building.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the large-item fulfillment center 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 large-item fulfillment building, 36 ft clear, one flexible size from 990k to 1.2M sf
- Site layout: cross-dock building, truck courts and trailer parking, car parking, trucks served from the frontage
- 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.
Large-Item Fulfillment Site Planning FAQ
What is a large-item fulfillment center?
A fulfillment building that handles bulky, oversized orders such as furniture and appliances. It is typically a cross-dock building, receiving on one side and shipping from the other.
What is the difference between large-item and sortable fulfillment?
Sortable fulfillment picks, packs and sorts smaller orders and leans on large employee parking fields. Large-item fulfillment moves bulky goods through a cross-dock building, so dock and truck court capacity tend to drive the plan.
How much land does a large-item fulfillment center need?
Site depth and frontage matter as much as acreage. The parcel has to fit a cross-dock building, its truck courts and trailer parking, and car parking. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how large a building fits.
How does a flexible building size work?
The layout holds one large-item fulfillment building type that sizes itself to the parcel, from 990k to 1.2M sf, with its truck courts, parking and frontage access. 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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