Tech industrial development class
Tech Industrial combines a retail storefront with shop-floor industrial space in a single-storey format no other Woodfine class provides. It is one of the six development classes in the direct-hold portfolio Woodfine develops, distinct from the office formats of Professional Centres and Suburban Office and from the retail format of Retail Select.
The 25/75 configuration
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.
Tenant fit
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; Tech Industrial spaces on or adjacent to the site accommodate the operators who serve that demand.
Siting within the co-location footprint
Like Retail Select, Tech Industrial functions as a backfill format: it is not deployed as a standalone product. It 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 centre anchor under the co-location methodology.
See also
- Development Classes — the six-class framework this article sits within
- Development Class Economics — floor plate size, lease term, and tenant profile for Tech Industrial
- Professional Centres Development Class — the primary office class Tech Industrial backfills alongside
- Retail Select — the other backfill class serving a non-office occupier segment within the co-location footprint