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Originally Posted by coffeebean
The Orlando Business Journal has reported The Villages Costco will be built on19 acres and will be 162,000 sf.
As a comparison:
Wesley Chapel Costco is 152,000 sf.
Clermont Costco is 152,000 sf.
Salt Lake City, Utah Costco is 235,000 sf and is the largest warehouse to date.
The average size Costco is 147,000 sf.
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There are a lot of reasons why the building is the size it is… mostly based on the 19 acre lot. 162000 SF requires 5 parking spaces per 1000 or somewhere to 800 spaces and 2% need to be handicapped accessible. A parking spaces is 162 SF (9x18) the handicaps are over 200 sf each. That’s 130,000 SF for just the spaces. Probably another 100,000sf for all the aisles. Then there is the gas station and the number of pumps then add the local requirements on islands of plantings required and maybe they need to put in a 50,000 sf retention pond to house the storm water… loading area for all the trucks… all that goes into how to balance the maximum size of the building for a particular lot size.