The fulfillment floor between the garage and the 3PL.
Every e-commerce business hits the same wall: the garage is full, the 3PL wants volumes you don’t have yet, and the storage unit prohibits the packing bench. The answer is a small warehouse floor of your own: racked vertical, packed by the door, picked up by the carrier.
Built for your work.
Explore space by industry.
From side hustle to season-proof.
The marketplace operatorFacebook, eBay, Poshmark, Whatnot: inventory racked by category, a photo corner that upgrades every listing, and a pickup address that isn’t your driveway. The playbook was written for this partner.
The Amazon / Shopify brandFBA prep, overflow inventory, returns processing, direct-fulfilled SKUs, the operations the 3PL does badly or expensively at small volume.
The subscription & kitting shopLong pack benches, bins in pick order, a wall calendar with one circled date a month. Kitting wants floor plan control no shared warehouse gives you.
The seasonal heavyweightQ4 is 60% of the year: rack high, stage early, and rent the adjacent bay for the season instead of the year, ask about short-term overflow at your park.
What the floor comes with.
| Spec | Typical | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Size | The Welcome Team confirms a suitable bay or warehouse floor area with you | Match the inventory, not the ambition, growth is next door |
| Clear Height | Varies by park; the Welcome Team confirms it for your bay before you sign | Three rack levels ≈ triple the floor; divide rent by the cube |
| Door | 10'×10' to 12'×14' grade | Box trucks back straight in; pallet deliveries land inside |
| Power & Light | 100 to 200A, LED | Stations, printers, chargers, and light that makes photos sell |
| Climate | Heated at northern parks; dehumidification options | Inventory protection is the quiet requirement |
| Address | Real commercial unit address | Platforms, suppliers, carriers, and customers all take you seriously |
What fulfillment space costs.
Ask the Welcome Team for current availability and a written monthly quote. Confirm the lease structure, recurring charges, separate costs and scheduled increases before signing.
Against the alternatives: a 3PL at small volume runs pick/pack/storage fees that swamp the margin on low-ticket SKUs; a storage unit is cheaper and illegal for the use. The bay is the honest middle: fixed, predictable, yours.
Fit-out is nearly nothing, Tier 0: racking, bench, labels, work.
We lease the space. We don’t run the 3PL. If you’re looking for someone to hold and ship your inventory, that’s a different kind of company, and there are good ones.
Explore fulfillment space.
The Welcome Team confirms each floor before you sign. Ask for usable clear height, floor loading and the approved rack layout for the bay.
We confirm clear height, dock or grade access and carrier pickup for your bay.
Rent the cube, not the floor.
E-commerce is the business type where clear height pays most literally. Inventory doesn’t care about floor area, it cares about cubic feet. A 1,500 SF bay at 25 feet clear, racked to three levels, holds what a 2,500+ SF bay at 12 feet holds, at hundreds of dollars a month less. When you compare spaces, do the division on the cube.
Layout does the rest: racking in back, pick lanes in the middle, pack bench and staging by the door, photo corner where the light is, the zoning method sketches it in an evening. The two highest-ROI square feet in the bay are the packing station by the door and the photo corner.
And when the 3PL conversation finally makes sense at real volume, you’ll negotiate it from a working floor with clean numbers, not from a garage at Christmas.
Clear height you can rent, not just floor (illustrative)Do the homework. We already wrote it.
E-commerce questions, answered straight.
Yes: grade doors take liftgate deliveries directly into the bay, and a pallet jack does the rest. If you’re running regular LTL, tell us the cadence and we’ll point you at the parks where the apron geometry makes it painless.
Routine: UPS, FedEx, and USPS pick up across our parks daily. Your unit address goes on the label; the driver knows the gate.
Northern-park bays are heated; humidity control is a small add (a dehumidifier or mini-split) rather than a build. If your inventory is genuinely climate-critical, say so and we’ll match you to the right building honestly.
At several parks, yes, and short-term overflow space for Q4 is a conversation we have every September. Reserve early; the season is everyone’s season.
Access hours, entry systems and security features vary by park. Confirm that the available arrangements suit your Q4 working hours before you sign.
Get the inventory out of the house.
Explore bays and small warehouse floors for inventory and fulfillment. The Welcome Team confirms clear height, loading, carrier arrangements and current availability with you.