See How Many Rear-Load Buildings Share One Truck Court
Start from a rear-load distribution park with a mix of building sizes set back to back around a shared truck court, fitted to your parcel. You see the building area and dock doors before you commit capital.
Will a Rear-Load Distribution Park Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a rear-load park around a shared truck court, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
One court, two rows of docks
Two rows of buildings face their docks across one shared truck court. The court has to hold trailer stalls and turning room for both rows, and that depth sets how many buildings line up.
Offices face the street
Car parking and offices sit at the front of each building, away from the court. That front strip takes depth on both sides of the site.
Five sizes, one parcel
With buildings from 200k to 330k sf, the right mix depends on parcel depth and frontage. One size too large can drop a building from the plan.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the rear-load 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 rear-load buildings, 36 ft clear, 5 sizes from 200k to 330k sf
- Site layout: buildings back to back around a shared internal truck court, trailer stalls in the court, car parking and offices facing out
- Your edits: building sizes, docks, the shared 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.
Rear-Load Distribution Site Planning FAQ
What is a rear-load distribution center?
A distribution building with dock doors on the rear wall and offices and car parking at the front. The truck court sits behind the building, out of view from the street.
What is the difference between a rear-load and a front-load warehouse?
Both have docks on one long side. A front-load building puts its docks and truck court facing the street, while a rear-load building turns them away from the street and puts offices and car parking up front.
What kind of site works for a rear-load park with a shared truck court?
A parcel with enough depth for two rows of buildings, the shared court between them and car parking on the outside edges. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit.
What is a shared internal truck court?
A single truck court between two rows of buildings whose docks face each other. Trucks use one paved area for both rows, and the docks stay screened from the street by the buildings.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit buildings, docks, the shared court, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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