Pallets in Bartlett, Tennessee

BOX 01Where it is

Bartlett is a city in Shelby County, north and east of Memphis, with 57,786 residents at the 2020 census, Tennessee's 14th largest city by a 2024 estimate (Wikipedia). The Bartlett Area Chamber says it is reached by Interstate 40 and TN 385, and puts Memphis International Airport about 20 minutes from Bartlett Corporate Park.

BOX 02The industrial parks

Bartlett Corporate Park dates to 1983, and the chamber counts over 200 operating industries in it. The park also hosts a technical college campus focused on advanced manufacturing. Stage Industrial Park, listed by brokers near Stage Road, is a mix of flex, office and warehouse space. The city has also described plans for a new industrial park of more than 200 acres in its northwest corner, reported by the Daily Memphian.

Those parks are made of small and mid-size buildings, not 1-million-square-foot boxes, which changes the pallet picture.

BOX 03Small buildings, small piles

• A flex building ships a few pallets a day, so its pile is a few dozen at a time.
• Light manufacturers use 48 x 40 stringers in Grade B and C, with an occasional heavier build.
• Component plants receive pallets with inbound parts and have little use for them.

For a few dozen to a few hundred pallets, pallet removal is the closest match, and a sound pile can still be a sell.

BOX 04Reaching the neighbors

Bartlett borders Cordova to the south and the Raleigh edge of Frayser and Raleigh to the west. A request names the Bartlett ZIP code, the size and the count; see HVAC and manufacturing for the plant side.

BOX 05Parks built in the eighties

Bartlett Corporate Park dates to 1983, which makes many of its buildings decades old. Older buildings tend to have older docks: lower doors, fewer bays, tighter yards. A pile in a yard like that is a sorting problem as much as a counting one, because there is limited room to spread pallets out.

If your yard is cramped, say so. A buyer who knows that pallets cannot be sorted on the ground will plan accordingly, and one who does not may expect a clean layout.

BOX 06An example from a flex building

"Flex warehouse in 38134 with about 70 pallets a month from component deliveries; stringer pallets, mixed sizes, mostly Grade C; pile builds near the east dock door."

BOX 07A technical college next door

The Bartlett Area Chamber says the corporate park hosts a technical college campus focused on advanced manufacturing. It does hint at the type of employer the park attracts: plants that use trained technicians, not just warehouses.