See If Sortable Fulfillment Fits Around a Shared Truck Court
Start from sortable fulfillment buildings in a mix of sizes around a shared internal truck court, with employee parking on the perimeter, fitted to your parcel. You see the building area, dock count and parking before you commit capital.
Will a Sortable Fulfillment Center Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For sortable fulfillment with an internal truck court, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Room for an inside court
Trucks stay inside the site, so the parcel needs enough interior depth for the truck court and trailer parking between buildings. Where that depth runs short, building area shrinks.
Parking on the perimeter
Large shift workforces need big employee parking fields, and on this site they sit along the perimeter with their own street access. Parking demand per shift caps how much building the site carries.
Which of five sizes fits
The layout draws from five set building sizes, 680k to 1.1M sf. Once the internal court and outer parking fields are in place, the parcel decides which sizes land, with smaller buildings filling the gaps.
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 buildings, 36 ft clear, 5 sizes from 680k to 1.1M sf
- Site layout: shared internal truck court, inbound receiving and outbound shipping docks, employee parking on the perimeter
- Your edits: building sizes, 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.
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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 trucks use an internal court or the frontage?
An internal truck court keeps trucks inside the site and puts employee parking on the outside, which separates truck and car traffic. Serving trucks from the frontage skips the internal court and leaves more room for parking.
How much land does a sortable fulfillment center need?
The building is only part of it. The parcel has to hold the internal truck court, trailer parking and large employee parking fields. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see which building size fits.
What is a shared internal truck court?
A truck court in the interior of the site that the docks face, with trucks entering through dedicated drives. Car parking sits around the outside, so trucks and cars stay apart.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit buildings, docks, courts, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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