Pallet racking in Dulles, VA.

Yes. Forwarder and air cargo operations are a staging problem rather than a storage problem — dwell is measured in hours, every consignment has its own cutoff, and the cost of a blocked pallet is a missed flight. We lay those systems out to mirror the outbound sort and the dock doors rather than to maximize positions, keep aisles wide enough for fast equipment movement, and use cantilever for the oversized and irregular freight that will not sit on a standard pallet.

Because density and access trade against each other, and near Dulles access wins. Drive-in and deep push-back systems store more pallets per square foot, but they bury inventory behind other inventory. That is fine when you are shipping full pallets of one SKU and terrible when every pallet has a different destination and a different cutoff time. We size depth to how your freight actually moves, and in most forwarder buildings that means shallow and fully selective.

It depends which side of the line the parcel sits on. Most of the industrial ground immediately around the airport is in Loudoun County and goes through Loudoun County Building & Development; parcels south and east toward Chantilly fall under Fairfax County Land Development Services. The two counties administer the same Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code but run their own reviews and ask for submissions differently. Before any drawings are prepared, we pull the parcel record for the building so the package is written for the right county from the start.