Find the Last-Mile Building Mix Your Infill Site Can Hold
Start from shallow urban last-mile buildings in a mix of sizes, loaded from the street and fitted to your infill parcel. You see how many buildings and dock doors the lot holds before you make an offer.
Will an Urban Last-Mile Warehouse Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For urban last-mile, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Small parcels, irregular shapes
Infill sites rarely come as clean rectangles. With five sizes from 36k to 54k sf, lot lines decide whether the site holds one building or several.
Frontage trucks can use
With no on-site loop, trucks reach every dock straight from the street. How much truck-usable frontage the parcel has caps how many buildings it can serve.
A short dock run
One-bay-deep buildings keep the dock run short. Total dock doors depend on how much building length the parcel can put along the frontage.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the last-mile buildings 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 buildings, 28 ft clear, 5 sizes from 36k to 54k sf, one bay deep
- Site layout: shallow buildings along the frontage, car parking, trucks served from the street, no on-site truck loop
- Your edits: building sizes, 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. The buildings are shallow, one bay deep, with docks close to the street.
How is an urban last-mile building different from a delivery station?
A delivery station is a larger building with room on site for van parking and staging. An urban last-mile building is a smaller, shallow box that fits infill parcels and loads straight from the street.
What kind of site works for urban last-mile?
Frontage and depth matter more than acreage, since a shallow building has to line up with the street that serves it. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see how many buildings fit.
Why use mixed building sizes?
The layout fills the site with buildings in five sizes from 36k to 54k sf, so an irregular infill parcel can hold more than one building. Use the Flexible Size layout to test one building instead.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit building sizes, docks, parking and circulation in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
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Test This Layout on Your Next Industrial Site
Load your parcel and get the site plan, yield, and costs in one place.