Test an Infill Warehouse on a Tight Urban Lot
Start from a single-loaded urban infill warehouse with no on-site parking, fitted to your parcel and served from the surrounding streets. You see the building area and dock doors a tight lot holds before you bid on it.
Will an Urban Infill Warehouse Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For an infill warehouse, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Lot lines set the box
On a tight infill parcel, setbacks and an irregular property line decide the building footprint. A few feet either way changes how much floor area the lot can hold.
Which street gets the docks
With no on-site truck drive, every delivery comes from the surrounding streets. Which frontage can take truck traffic decides where the docks go and how much building fits behind them.
Docks on one side only
A single-loaded building puts every dock door on one wall. How long that wall can run on the lot sets the dock door count the building can offer a tenant.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the infill warehouse 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: single-loaded infill warehouse building, docks on one side
- Site layout: no on-site parking, trucks served from the surrounding streets
- Your edits: building size and shape, docks, 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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Urban Infill Warehouse Site Planning FAQ
What is an urban infill warehouse?
A warehouse on a small parcel in a built-up area, close to the customers it serves. The building takes most of the lot, and trucks rely on the streets around it.
What is the difference between an infill warehouse and an urban last-mile building?
The urban last-mile layouts generate shallow, one-bay-deep buildings in a set size range, loaded from the frontage. This infill layout is a single-loaded building with no on-site parking, for parcels where the building has to come first.
How much land does an infill warehouse need?
Frontage and lot shape matter more than acreage, because the docks have to face a street that trucks can use. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how much building fits.
What does external circulation mean?
Trucks reach the docks from the public streets around the site instead of an on-site drive or truck court. It leaves more of the parcel for building, and it depends on those streets handling truck traffic.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit the building, docks, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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