See If Your Site Can Carry Four Stories of Class A Garden
Start from a luxury garden community of four-story elevator buildings with large one- to three-bedroom units, fitted to your parcel. You see unit count, parking and height before you commit.
Will a Luxury Elevator Garden Community Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a luxury elevator garden community, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
46 ft has to clear zoning
Four stories at 11.5 ft floor to floor reach 46 ft. Check the roofline against the height limit before you count on the fourth floor.
Parking caps the count
Larger units bring more cars per unit, and four stories stack more units on each footprint. Parking is usually what caps the count.
Corridors and cores cost area
Elevators and interior corridors take floor area a walkup does not. Unit size and efficiency have to carry the premium.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the luxury elevator garden community 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: 4-story elevator buildings with interior corridors, 11.5 ft floor to floor (46 ft), large 1 to 3 BR units, balconies
- Site layout: surface parking courts on fire-access drive aisles
- Your edits: unit mix, unit sizes, buildings, parking and drives
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.
We do initial pro formas and tell clients, ‘Hey, this doesn’t make sense.’ We’ve shown them 10 different schemes in TestFit… and nothing pencils out. Sometimes more is not better… You end up spending more money and getting less return. TestFit helps us and our clients make decisions.
Luxury Elevator Garden Site Planning FAQ
What is an elevator garden apartment?
A garden community of three- to four-story buildings served by elevators and interior corridors, still surface parked. It sits between a breezeway walkup and a wrap or podium building.
What makes this the luxury elevator layout?
Larger one- to three-bedroom units and 11.5 ft floors, compared with 10.5 ft floors and a studio to three-bedroom mix on the market-rate elevator layout.
How tall are the buildings in this layout?
Four stories at 11.5 ft floor to floor, 46 ft tall.
How many units fit on my site?
It depends on parcel shape, parking and unit mix. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see the unit count and density.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit the unit mix, buildings, parking and drives in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
Find it in TestFit
Test This Layout on Your Next Garden Site
Load your parcel and get the site plan, yield, and costs in one place.