Know How Many Small Industrial Users Your Parcel Can Hold
Start from a set-size light industrial building, with trucks served from the street frontage, repeated across your parcel. You see how many small manufacturing and service users the site holds before you go under contract.
How Many Light Industrial Buildings Fit on My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For repeated set-size light industrial buildings served from the street, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
One size, whole buildings
Every building is the same set size, built for one small user or a few units, so yield moves a whole building at a time. Lot depth decides whether one more fits.
Every building needs the road
With trucks served from the frontage and no on-site loop, each building needs its own access from the street. Frontage length caps the count.
Parking adds up fast
Each light industrial user brings employee parking. Multiply that across several small buildings and parking can take more land than the buildings do.
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, fixed 32k sf, repeated
- Site layout: buildings along the frontage, docks served from the street, car parking, no on-site truck loop
- Your edits: building count, 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.
How is this different from the flexible-size light industrial layout?
The flexible layout sizes one building to the parcel. This one repeats one set-size building, the smallest in the light industrial range, to show how many small users fit, which suits a for-sale or small-tenant strategy.
What kind of site suits repeated small industrial buildings?
Parcels with long frontage on a main road, where each building can take truck access straight from the street. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit.
Why use one set building size?
There is no flex in the size, so the layout places as many standard buildings as fit, or none, and the site plan becomes a count. Use it when you plan to repeat one building as many times as the land allows.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit buildings, 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.