Elevator Coworking + Co-Warehousing

For a growing startup, space can become a problem surprisingly fast. Your garage fills up, inventory starts taking over the office, and suddenly a spare bedroom is doing double duty as a shipping department. That is where co-warehousing for startups in Li

Affordable" gets used loosely in commercial real estate, and it's worth being precise about what it actually means before comparing options. A low quoted rate isn't the same thing as a low total cost. In a standard triple net industrial lease, operating e

Most advice about small business storage assumes a fairly steady, year-round need. That's not how a lot of small businesses actually work. For many online sellers, November and December alone can account for 30 to 50 percent of total annual revenue - whic

A lot of small businesses in Kansas City are already operating out of a self-storage unit, whether they'd describe it that way or not. According to a recent industry survey covered by Inc. Magazine, nearly a third of Americans who rent a storage unit use

Before Elevator existed, our co-founder Shannon Lerda went looking for exactly this: a small space, around 1,000 square feet, with a loading dock and a one-year lease. She learned fast that combination basically didn't exist. Most available warehouse spac

Most advice about e-commerce warehouse space focuses entirely on getting orders out the door. What gets left out of that conversation is what happens when orders come back. According to the National Retail Federation's most recent returns data, roughly on

There's a specific wall a lot of e-commerce sellers hit. Orders are steady enough that the kitchen table isn't cutting it anymore, but volume is nowhere near what a real third-party fulfillment center wants to see. Most 3PLs set monthly minimums in the hu

We hear a version of the same story a lot: a business outgrows the space it started in, and shipping - which should be the easy part - becomes the daily headache. We asked a few Elevator members to talk about what that actually looked like before they fou

We hear a version of the same story a lot: a business outgrows the space it started in, and shipping - which should be the easy part - becomes the daily headache. We asked a few Elevator members to talk about what that actually looked like before they fou

When we announced our St. Louis location, the reaction we got back wasn't from a competitor or a local blogger - it came from the Governor of Missouri. Governor Mike Kehoe said he was glad to see us continuing to grow in the state and supporting St. Louis