Check a Set-Size Fulfillment Building Against Your Frontage
Start from a set-size cross-dock building for large-item fulfillment, with trucks served from the frontage, repeated across your parcel. You see how many buildings and dock doors fit before it goes to committee.
Will a Standard 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 a set-size large-item fulfillment center, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
One set building
Every building is the same size, so yield moves a whole building at a time. At this scale, a little extra depth or width can decide whether the site takes the building at all.
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 falls short on depth, the building drops off the site entirely.
Access from the frontage
With no on-site truck loop, truck access comes from the frontage road. Frontage length and allowed curb cuts decide whether each building on the site can be served.
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, fixed at 990k 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 for bulky, oversized orders such as furniture and appliances. It is typically a cross-dock building, receiving on one side and shipping from the other.
Should I test a set-size building or a flexible size?
The set-size layout repeats one standard building and places as many as fit, or none. The flexible-size layout holds one building type that sizes itself to the parcel within its range.
How much land does a set-size fulfillment building need?
Site depth and frontage matter as much as acreage. The parcel has to hold the building, its truck courts and trailer parking, and car parking. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many fit.
What does trucks served from the frontage mean?
Trucks enter the truck courts directly from the frontage road instead of from a perimeter loop on the site. It saves land for building and parking, and depends on having enough frontage and access.
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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