Lay Out a Rear-Load Small-Bay Park Around One Truck Court
Start from a rear-load small-bay park with a mix of building sizes, set back to back around a shared truck court and fitted to your parcel. You see the building count and dock doors before it goes to committee.
Will a Rear-Load Small-Bay 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 small-bay park, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Buildings pair around a court
Rear-load buildings face each other across a shared truck court. Whether the site is deep enough for two rows plus the court decides if it holds a park or a single row.
Office fronts need street presence
Rear-load puts storefront offices and car parking on the outside face of each building, with the court behind. That second face of parking takes land that could hold building area.
Many units, many doors
Each tenant unit needs its own dock or grade-level door on the court side, so building depth and unit width drive how many tenants the park holds.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the rear-load small-bay 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 small-bay buildings, 28 ft clear, 5 sizes from 37k to 57k sf
- Site layout: buildings back to back around a shared internal truck court, office fronts and car parking facing out
- Your edits: building sizes, units, docks, 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.
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Rear-Load Small-Bay Site Planning FAQ
What is a rear-load small-bay industrial building?
A shallow multi-tenant building with office fronts facing the street and dock doors on the back. Tenants get a clean storefront and loading stays out of sight.
What is the difference between rear-load and front-load small bay?
Rear-load separates the office face from the loading face, which reads better from the street and suits service and showroom users. Front-load puts docks and parking on one side, which is simpler to serve but puts trucks in view.
How much land does a rear-load small-bay park need?
Site depth is the constraint: two rows of buildings, a shared court between them and car parking on the outside faces. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit.
What is a shared internal truck court?
One truck court between two rows of buildings, used by the docks on both sides. It keeps trucks inside the park and off the street, and serves twice the docks of a single-sided court.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit buildings, units, docks, the court, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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