See How Large a Parcel Sort Hub Your Site Can Take
Start from one parcel sort hub that sizes itself to your parcel, with receiving and shipping courts on opposite sides and a perimeter truck loop. You see its building area and dock doors before you price it.
Will a Parcel Sort Hub Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a single parcel sort hub, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
How large one hub gets
The hub can run from 260k to 390k sf. Where it lands in that range depends on setbacks, courts and the truck loop, and that sets the building area you underwrite.
Depth on both sides
Receiving on one side and shipping on the other means a truck court and trailer parking on each long side. On a shallow parcel, the building gives up area first.
Room for the truck loop
A perimeter loop keeps trailer traffic away from car parking, but the drive circling the building is land the hub cannot use.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the parcel sort hub 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 parcel sort hub, 36 ft clear, one building that flexes from 260k to 390k sf
- Site layout: receiving and shipping courts on opposite sides, trailer and car parking, perimeter truck loop
- 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.
Parcel Sort Hub Site Planning FAQ
What is a parcel sortation hub?
A building where inbound trailers unload parcels, the parcels are sorted by destination, and outbound trailers carry them on. Receiving and shipping each get their own truck court on opposite sides.
Should I test one flexible hub or mixed sizes?
Use this layout when the site is meant for one sort hub and you want to know how large it can be. The Mixed Sizes layout tests whether the site holds several hubs in sizes from 260k to 390k sf.
What kind of site does a single parcel sort hub need?
Depth matters more than acreage. The parcel has to fit the hub, a court and trailer parking on both long sides, and a truck loop around it all. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how large the hub gets.
How does a flexible building size work?
The layout holds one parcel sort hub type that sizes itself to the parcel, from 260k to 390k sf, with its receiving and shipping courts and truck loop. 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, docks, courts, parking and circulation 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.