Count How Many Standard Rear-Load Buildings Fit Your Parcel
Start from a set-size rear-load building, with its truck court behind it and trucks served from the frontage road, repeated across your parcel. You see how many buildings and dock doors the site holds before you tie up the land.
How Many Standard Rear-Load Warehouses Will Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For repeated set-size rear-load buildings, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
One building, repeated
Every building is the same size, so yield moves a whole building at a time. A little more frontage or depth can decide whether one more fits.
Every building needs frontage
Each building is served from the frontage road, so street length and driveway spacing limit how many buildings line up along the site.
Front parking, rear courts
Each building carries its own car parking in front and its own truck court and trailer stalls behind. That depth repeats across the whole site.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the standard rear-load building 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, one fixed 200k sf size repeated across the site
- Site layout: a truck court behind each building, car parking and office at the front, trucks served from the frontage
- Your edits: building count, docks, courts, parking and driveways
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.
Standard Rear-Load Warehouse Site Planning FAQ
What is a rear-load warehouse?
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.
Why test a set-size building instead of mixed sizes?
A set size answers how many identical buildings a parcel holds, which suits a repeatable product or a spec program, and yield moves a whole building at a time. The mixed sizes layout instead picks from five sizes to fill the site.
What kind of site works for repeated set-size buildings?
A parcel with long street frontage and enough depth for front parking, the building and a rear truck court. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit.
What does frontage-served mean?
Each building takes truck access from the frontage road instead of from an on-site truck loop. It saves land for building, and it makes street frontage the limit on how many buildings fit.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit buildings, docks, courts, parking and driveways 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.