Pallet Racking Services in Dallas, TX

The submarket dictates the system. Inner-city envelopes force selective at modest heights; modern southwest-Dallas bays make deep-lane drive-in and pallet flow worth the investment.

• Stemmons Corridor / Trinity Industrial District — 24–26 ft clear, tilt-ups from 1975–1998, 7-inch unreinforced slabs. Default: selective at 20–24 ft with two-deep push-back on the perimeter walls.
• Pinnacle Park / Mountain Creek Business Park — 32–36 ft clear, modern spec. Default: 48-inch-deep selective at 30–34 ft, or pallet flow paired with carton flow for 3PLs and e-commerce fulfillment.
• Brookhollow / Harry Hines apparel corridor — 22–24 ft clear, apparel and fashion distribution. Default: hybrid of carton flow on pick faces, selective for reserve cartons, cantilever for roll-goods.
• I-30 East lease-churn belt — 3-to-5-year lease cycles drive constant tear-down, relocation, and buyback. Resale inventory typically redeploys to Garland and Mesquite.

Every Dallas rack install over eight feet needs a Development Services construction permit with Texas-PE-stamped rack stability, seismic, and anchorage calculations. Typical plan review runs three to five weeks. The four common blockers we plan around:

• Seismic Design Category B under ASCE 7 — skipping the seismic stamp is the fastest way to fail plan review.
• Commodity above 12 ft triggers a Dallas Fire Department high-piled storage review per IFC Chapter 32. Submit the fire-commodity-classification form at the same time as the building drawings, not after.
• Sprinkler sequencing — sequencing the rack install before sprinkler mods banks three to four weeks, because rack layout dictates where sprinkler branch lines drop for in-rack coverage.
• Landlord alterations clause — the typical Dallas industrial lease gives the landlord 10–15 business days to approve drawings. Submit to both landlord and city the same day.