How do last-mile logistics brokers find tenants for infill depots?

What do last-mile tenants need from a building?

Location first, then parking and access. A last-mile depot is chosen by drive time to customers, so infill sites close to dense housing and arterial roads win even at higher rents. Inside the fence, delivery stations need far more van and car parking than a typical warehouse, room for vans to queue and load, and often power for electric vehicle charging.

The building itself can be modest: small-bay units, older warehouses and even retail boxes are used. Clear height matters less than in a regional distribution centre, while yard depth, number of loading points and the ability to run early morning shifts matter more.

Who leases last-mile logistics space?

The large users are parcel and e-commerce networks such as Amazon, UPS, FedEx, DHL and national postal carriers, plus grocers and quick-commerce delivery firms. They usually have dedicated network planning and real estate teams and work through tenant rep brokers.

The larger and less contested pool is mid-size: regional couriers, food and beverage distributors, trade and building suppliers, pharmacy and medical delivery, laundry and linen services, and e-commerce brands running their own fulfilment. These businesses often have no real estate team, so the owner or operations manager decides, and they are reachable directly.

Why does the precinct matter so much in last mile?

Because a delivery business cannot move far without redrawing its routes and losing drivers. When a courier or distributor outgrows a depot, it searches within the same few suburbs. That makes the businesses already operating around a vacant building its most likely tenants, the logic behind the precinct prospecting playbook.

Work outward from the property. List every delivery, distribution and trade business nearby, note which ones are cramped (vans parked on the street, overflow trailers, constant hiring of drivers), and contact the decision maker at each with a reason this building solves their constraint.

Which signals show a last-mile tenant will need space?

Driver and warehouse hiring in the area, a new delivery contract or retail partner, a new service area or same-day offer, a funding round, and a merger that combines two networks. Contraction signals matter too: a carrier consolidating depots or closing a route frees space that someone else will take.

These events appear on job boards, company news and local press, usually months before a formal requirement. For how to watch them systematically, see tenant movement tracking. For the broader warehouse method, see how to find warehouse leasing leads.

How does Scayled help a last-mile broker?

From an infill address, Scayled lists every business around the property with the person who decides at each, from the owner of the local courier to the operations manager at the food distributor. A Target Scan finds businesses elsewhere in the country whose operations fit a depot of that size and use and that may be expanding into the area.

Each business is tracked for hiring, contract wins, new sites and funding on a map and a feed, and the emails are drafted per business and sent from your own inbox. Everything stays in your Occupier Database, so the next infill listing in the same area starts with a warm list. The 3-day free trial at /start includes 4 scans.

For a single depot an owner wants leased, The Campaign at /campaign does the work for that one building: the businesses most likely to take it, the person who decides at each, and the emails, with no subscription.