Cold Storage Facility Development – 10 Year Financial Model (Excel XLSX)

BENEFITS OF THIS EXCEL DOCUMENT

1. Provides a complete view of project feasibility - from construction and commissioning through lease-up, stabilized operations, and exit.

REAL ESTATE EXCEL DESCRIPTION

Cold Storage Facility Development Financial Model XLS Template is an Excel template (XLSX) available for immediate download upon purchase.

A cold storage facility is a temperature-controlled warehouse designed to safely store perishable products such as food, pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals across chilled and frozen ranges. It combines insulated building design with industrial refrigeration systems, backup power, and continuous monitoring to maintain strict temperature and humidity requirements and protect product integrity. Cold storage operations typically include receiving, quality checks, pallet racking, order picking, blast freezing (where applicable), and fast dispatch, making these facilities critical nodes in modern supply chains that require reliability, traceability, and high energy efficiency.

This 10-year Cold Storage Facility Development financial model provides a complete view of project feasibility—from construction and commissioning through lease-up, stabilized operations, and exit. It links key drivers such as pallet capacity, occupancy ramp, storage rates, handling and value-added services, utilities and energy intensity, labor, maintenance, insurance, and capex into fully integrated financial statements and cash flow. With flexible scenarios and sensitivities, the model helps sponsors, investors, and lenders evaluate underwriting assumptions, optimize the capital structure, and assess returns under different demand, pricing, and cost environments.

The structure of the template follows Financial Modeling Best Practices principles and is fully customizable.

Model Structure

* Setup Assumptions
This section is used to input all the assumptions for the project.
It includes assumptions for Project Timing, Building Areas, Pallets Storage Positions, Revenue Assumptions (Storage, Handling, and other Value-added services), Operating Expenses, Capital Expenditures, Uses & Sources of Cash, and Project Financing

* Development Budget & Development Chart
This section includes all assumptions for the property development.
It includes Land Costs, Hard Costs , Soft Costs, Development Contigencies and Development timing. A dynamic chart presents the development cash flow.

* Loan Schedules
Construction and Permanent Loan amortization Schedules ( including an optional moratorium and interest-only (IO) period.  

* Project Cash Flows and Return Metrics
Presentation of Project's Cash Flow and Returns including the below reports:
– Monthly Project Cash Flow per Year
– Annual Project Cash Flow
– Financing and Tax Supporting Schedules
– Key Performance Indicators
– Unlevered & Levered Project Return Metrics (IRR, MOIC, Payback, NPV)
– Project Dashboard including performance metrics and charts

* Investors Distribution Waterfall
A 3-tier IRR hurdle waterfall model to distribute proceeds between investors. The report provides inputs for up to 4 different LPs with different equity contribution percentages and up to 4 different GPs with different equity contributions and equity share percentages. The first tier distributes cash flow to the partners until the LPs has achieved some defined preferred return and received a full return of capital. Assuming the preferred return hurdle is hit in tier one, cash flow is distributed in tiers two and three based on a defined promote structure and hurdle rates as outlined by the user.

* Project Executive Summary
Professional Executive Summary report containing all of the high-level relevant information for review and is designed to be easy to read, print, and save to pdf. The report includes Project General Info, Timing, Sources, and Uses of Cash, Operations Summary and Key Metrics, Project and Investor return metrics.

Instructions on the use of the model are included in the Excel file.

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