Size One Sortable Fulfillment Building to Your Parcel
Start from one sortable fulfillment building that sizes itself to your parcel, around an internal truck court with employee parking fields. You see the building area, dock count and parking before you tie up the land.
How Big a Sortable Fulfillment Center Fits My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a single sortable fulfillment building, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
How big the building gets
Setbacks and lot shape decide whether the parcel carries a building near 680k sf or closer to 1.1M sf. That difference sets building area and dock count for the whole deal.
Building and parking compete
Large shift workforces need big employee parking fields on the same parcel. How many stalls the operation needs per shift caps how large the building can get.
Room for an inside court
Trucks stay inside the site, so the truck court and trailer parking have to fit between the building and the parking fields. That depth comes straight out of building area.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the sortable fulfillment center 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 sortable fulfillment building, 36 ft clear, one flexible size from 680k to 1.1M sf
- Site layout: internal truck court, inbound receiving and outbound shipping docks, large employee parking fields
- 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.
Sortable Fulfillment Site Planning FAQ
What is a sortable fulfillment center?
A fulfillment building where smaller e-commerce orders are picked, packed and sorted for shipping. It pairs an inbound receiving side with an outbound shipping court and needs large employee parking fields.
Should I test one flexible building or mixed sizes?
The flexible-size layout holds one building type that flexes from 680k to 1.1M sf to fit your parcel. The mixed-sizes layout compares five set sizes across the same range.
How much land does a sortable fulfillment center need?
The building is only part of it. The parcel has to hold the truck court, trailer parking and large employee parking fields. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how large a building fits.
How does a flexible building size work?
The layout holds one sortable fulfillment building type that sizes itself to the parcel, from 680k to 1.1M sf, with its internal truck court and employee parking. 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.