See If a Light Industrial Park Fits Your Site
Start from a light industrial park with a mix of building sizes sharing an internal truck court, fitted to your parcel. You see the building area and car parking the site supports before you commit capital.
Will a Light Industrial Park Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a light industrial park, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
One court, two rows
Buildings share an internal truck court, so the site needs a row of buildings on each side of it plus parking outside. If depth falls short, the park drops to a single row.
Users bring more cars
Manufacturing and assembly tenants put more people in the building than a warehouse does. Car parking takes a bigger share of the site.
Wide spots and narrow strips
Wider parts of a parcel can carry a 51k sf building; narrow strips only take something closer to 32k sf. Which sizes land where sets the total building area.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the light industrial 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 light industrial buildings, 24 ft clear, 5 sizes from 32k to 51k sf
- Site layout: buildings around a shared internal truck court, car parking on the outside faces
- Your edits: building sizes, units, docks, court, 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.
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.
What is the difference between light industrial and small-bay?
Both are smaller multi-tenant buildings. In TestFit, the light industrial layouts run 24 ft clear and suit production users, while the small-bay layouts run 28 ft clear and lean toward warehouse and service tenants.
How much land does a light industrial park need?
Enough depth for two rows of buildings, a shared truck court and car parking on the outside. Higher parking demand often decides the fit. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit.
Why use a shared internal truck court?
One court serves the docks of buildings on both sides, so trucks stay inside the park and the street faces stay clean for offices and parking.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit buildings, units, docks, the court, 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.