Repeat a Standard Small-Bay Building Across Your Whole Site
Start from a set-size rear-load small-bay building, repeated across your parcel and tied together by a perimeter truck loop. You see how many buildings and dock doors a deeper site holds before you bid.
How Many Standard Small-Bay Buildings 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 on a truck loop, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
The loop reaches the interior
A perimeter truck loop lets buildings sit deep in the site, away from the road. That opens up larger parcels, at the cost of the land the loop takes.
One size has to tile the site
Every building is the same set size, so yield moves a whole building at a time. Setbacks and property lines decide whether the last one fits inside the loop.
Storefronts still need a face
Rear-load offices need car parking and a visible front, even on interior buildings. Giving each one a drive face and a truck court behind it adds land per building.
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, fixed 37k sf, repeated
- Site layout: rear truck courts, office fronts with car parking, perimeter truck loop
- Your edits: building count, units, 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.
Rear-Load Small-Bay Site Planning FAQ
What is a rear-load small-bay industrial building?
A shallow multi-tenant building with office fronts on one side and dock doors on the back. Tenants get a clean storefront and loading stays out of sight.
How does this compare to the set-size frontage layout?
Both repeat the same set-size building. This one adds a perimeter truck loop so buildings can fill a deeper site, while the frontage layout lines them up along the road with no loop.
What kind of site suits a looped small-bay park?
Deeper parcels where buildings can sit away from the road, and owners who want trucks off public streets. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit.
What does the perimeter truck loop do here?
It circles the site so trucks can reach the rear docks of every building and leave without crossing customer parking. It uses land, and it opens up the back of the parcel.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit buildings, units, docks, 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.