Tech Industrial Development Class
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Follow-on 2/3: reconcile six-development-class taxonomy — narrowed class-professional-centres from a 4-type umbrella to a peer article; redistributed its detail to class-suburban-office (floor count, Offset Pulled Back Core), class-retail-select (tenant list, food-service exclusion + rationale), and class-tech-industrial (25/75 configuration, upgraded from planned to complete — the specs already existed in the corpus); fixed about-development-class-economics' four-class lede + food-service contradiction with Retail Select; added a note that Parking Structures/Vertical Warehouses economics are still pending
@@ -5,38 +5,35 @@ slug: class-tech-industrial category: buildings type: topic content_type: topic quality: pre-build quality: complete status: active audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC last_edited: 2026-07-03 editor: pointsav-engineering short_description: "Tech Industrial is planned as a light-industrial and flex-industrial building type serving technology-adjacent occupiers within the co-location footprint; physical dimensions are not yet finalized." short_description: "Tech Industrial is a single-format industrial-retail building — 25% retail storefront, 75% shop floor with grade-level panel van access — serving last-mile logistics and workshop tenants within the co-location footprint." paired_with: buildings/class-tech-industrial.es.md cites: [] --- Tech Industrial is one of the six [[about-development-classes|development classes]] planned for Woodfine Management Corp.'s direct-hold portfolio. Unlike [[class-professional-centres|Professional Centres]], [[class-suburban-office|Suburban Office]], and [[class-retail-select|Retail Select]], Tech Industrial has no deployed precedent yet — this article describes the class in planned and intended terms, and its physical dimensions are not yet finalized. Tech Industrial is one of the six [[about-development-classes|development classes]] in Woodfine Management Corp.'s direct-hold portfolio. It is a single-storey building format distinct from the office formats of [[class-professional-centres|Professional Centres]] and [[class-suburban-office|Suburban Office]] and from the retail format of [[class-retail-select|Retail Select]], combining a retail storefront with shop-floor industrial space. ## What Tech Industrial is intended to be ## The 25/75 configuration Tech Industrial is planned as a light-industrial and flex-industrial building type, distinct from the office and retail formats that make up the rest of the direct-hold portfolio. It is intended to serve technology-adjacent occupiers whose space requirements are not met by a multi-storey office fit-out or a single-storey retail unit — occupiers whose operations sit between conventional office use and heavier industrial use. Tech Industrial buildings provide a 25% retail storefront component and 75% shop floor area, with grade-level panel van access at the shop floor level. The 25/75 configuration is standardized and applied consistently regardless of the specific operational requirements of individual tenants — it is a fixed Prototype, not a per-tenant customization. ## Intended occupier categories ## Tenant fit The class is intended to accommodate uses such as data-processing support functions, light assembly operations, and research-and-development-adjacent activities. These are occupier categories that require more operational flexibility than an office suite provides — greater floor loading, equipment access, or working-space configuration — without requiring the scale or infrastructure of a heavy-industrial or logistics facility. The intended tenant base is not yet finalized in the same way the class's physical specifications are not yet finalized; this description states direction, not a committed tenant program. The Tech Industrial format accommodates last-mile logistics operators and workshop users who require direct vehicle access at grade combined with a retail presence — occupiers whose operations sit between conventional retail use and heavier industrial use. Tech Industrial tenants serve the last-mile logistics, light manufacturing, and service-business demand that a regional commercial cluster generates: as a Power Centre attracts retail and professional activity, the supporting supply chain, maintenance, and service infrastructure grows proportionally, and Tech Industrial spaces on or adjacent to the site accommodate the operators who serve that demand. ## Planned siting within the co-location footprint ## Siting within the co-location footprint Tech Industrial is intended to sit within the same co-location footprint that governs the other proximity-based classes in the portfolio — that is, in relationship to a qualifying [[power-centres|power centre]] anchor, following the [[co-location-methodology|co-location methodology]] applied across the direct-hold program. The specific proximity radius that will apply to Tech Industrial has not yet been set; until it is, the class should be understood as planned to extend the portfolio's addressable occupier base, not as a class with a confirmed siting standard. ## Status: physical specifications not yet finalized Tech Industrial's floor plate standard, structural system, and building services configuration — the attributes that are fixed and published for the other five classes — are still to be determined. This article will be updated once those definitions are formally supplied. Until then, any reference to Tech Industrial building specifications should be treated as directional and subject to change, consistent with the planned-and-intended framing this class carries throughout. Like Retail Select, Tech Industrial functions as a backfill format: it is not deployed as a standalone product, but maximizes site coverage on a Development Site where the primary office building types do not consume the full developable area or where zoning height restrictions apply, in relationship to a qualifying [[power-centres|power centre]] anchor under the [[co-location-methodology|co-location methodology]]. ## See also - [[about-development-classes|Development Classes]] — the six-class framework this article sits within - [[class-professional-centres|Professional Centres Development Class]] — the deployed office class Tech Industrial is intended to complement - [[class-retail-select|Retail Select]] — the other class serving a non-office occupier segment within the co-location footprint - [[about-development-class-economics|Development Class Economics]] — floor plate size, lease term, and tenant profile for Tech Industrial - [[class-professional-centres|Professional Centres Development Class]] — the primary office class Tech Industrial backfills alongside - [[class-retail-select|Retail Select]] — the other backfill class serving a non-office occupier segment within the co-location footprint