Find the Right Light Industrial Building for a Small Parcel
Start from one light industrial building that sizes itself to your parcel, with trucks served from the street frontage. You see the building area a small roadside parcel holds before you tie up the land.
Will a Light Industrial Building Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a single light industrial building on a small parcel, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Trucks come from the street
With no on-site loop, trucks pull in from the frontage. How the docks and truck court reach the road decides how much of a small parcel is left for building.
Setbacks set the size
On a small parcel, setbacks and frontage decide whether the building lands near 32k sf or reaches 51k sf, and that swing moves the pro forma.
Parking competes for land
Light manufacturing and assembly users need more car parking than a warehouse. On a small site, the stall count you need can cap the building size.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the light industrial building 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 light industrial building, 24 ft clear, flexible size from 32k to 51k sf
- Site layout: docks served from the street frontage, car parking, no on-site truck loop
- Your edits: building size, units, docks, parking and access points
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.
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Light Industrial Site Planning FAQ
What is a light industrial building?
A flex industrial building for light manufacturing, assembly, R&D and service users. It runs smaller and lower than a distribution warehouse, with more office and car parking per square foot.
Should I test one flexible building or repeated set-size buildings?
One flexible building sizes itself to the parcel within 32k to 51k sf. The set-size Frontage layout repeats a standard 32k sf building instead, to show how many small users the site can hold.
What kind of site suits a frontage-served light industrial building?
Smaller parcels along a main road, where trucks can reach the docks straight from the street. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see the building size it supports.
How does a flexible building size work?
The layout holds one light industrial building type that sizes itself to the parcel, from 32k to 51k sf, with its truck court and parking served from the frontage. 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, units, docks, parking and access in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
Find it in TestFit
Test This Layout on Your Next Industrial Site
Load your parcel and get the site plan, yield, and costs in one place.