See How Much Last-Mile Building Fits Your Infill Lot
Start from one shallow urban last-mile building that sizes itself to your parcel, loaded from the street. You see the building area and dock doors a tight lot supports before you close on the land.
Will an Urban Last-Mile Building Fit My Lot?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a single last-mile building, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
One building fills the lot
The building flexes between 36k and 54k sf to fit the parcel. Setbacks and an irregular lot line decide where in that range it lands.
Which frontage gets the docks
Trucks load straight from the street with no on-site drive. If only one frontage can take trucks, the building and its docks have to face it, which can cost floor area.
Shallow box, short dock run
A one-bay-deep building keeps the dock run short. Its length along the frontage sets how many dock doors the site can carry.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the last-mile building 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 urban last-mile building, 28 ft clear, one building that flexes from 36k to 54k sf, one bay deep
- Site layout: shallow building along the frontage, car parking, trucks served from the street, no on-site truck loop
- Your edits: building size, 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.
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.
Urban Last-Mile Site Planning FAQ
What is an urban last-mile warehouse?
A small warehouse on an infill site close to customers, used to stage and ship final deliveries. It is shallow, one bay deep, with docks close to the street.
Should I test one flexible building or mixed sizes?
Use this layout when the lot is meant for one building and you want to know how large it can be. The Mixed Sizes layout tests whether the site holds several buildings from 36k to 54k sf.
What kind of lot works for a single last-mile building?
Frontage and depth matter more than acreage, since the building has to line up with the street that serves its docks. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how large the building gets.
How does a flexible building size work?
The layout holds one urban last-mile building type that sizes itself to the parcel, from 36k to 54k sf, one bay deep and loaded from the street. 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, 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.