In the News
Press & Features Showing Elevator's Growth and Milestones!
Elevator Co-Warehousing Opens in Central St. Louis
August 2026
On Thursday, August 20th, Elevator Co-Warehousing held a grand opening of their second Missouri location, Elevator St. Louis. The event featured complimentary food and drinks, prizes and giveaways, tours around...
How an Omaha Couple Is Building More Than Workspace for Midwest Entrepreneurs
June 2026
From Omaha Roots to Kansas City and St. Louis Expansion, Shannon and Emiliano Lerda Are Creating Opportunities for Entrepreneurs Through Coworking, Co-Warehousing, and Community...
Elevator co-warehousing finds foothold in Des Moines
June 2026
Elevator co-founders Shannon and Emiliano Lerda opened their first co-warehousing space in Omaha’s Old Market district in October 2022...
Downtown co-warehousing space Elevator is 75% occupied; owners want to reach 90% by July
June 2026
After nearly two decades in Des Moines’ historic East Village, Ephemera Design faced a challenge familiar to many retailers: declining foot traffic as more shoppers moved online...
How Elevator's founders used Google tools to grow their co-warehousing community
August 2025
What was your “lightbulb moment?” 💡
For the founders of Elevator, a Co-Warehousing Community, it was realizing there had to be a better way...
Exploring co-warehousing
with Emiliano & Shannon Lerda.
June 2025
A new trend has been quietly emerging in shared workspaces: co-warehousing.
Emiliano and Shannon Lerda, founders of co-warehousing community Elevator, are at the forefront of this movement...
Elevator to open new co-warehousing and office space in downtown Lincoln
June 2025
Elevator is bringing its flexible co-warehousing and office space model to downtown Lincoln with a new 25,000-square-foot location in the Atrium building. Set to open this fall, the space aims to support small businesses with month-to-month leases...
3 Affordable Cities for Young Entrepreneurs
June 2025
Young entrepreneurs should bring their ambition, talent and work ethic to affordable cities with booming economies, innovative industries, a talented labor pool and sprawling professional networks...
Top 13 Co-warehousing Spaces in North America
May 2025
20% of all retail purchases this year are expected to take place online. This explosion in the popularity of e-commerce means there are now more small business owners needing warehousing facilities and logistics services than ever before...
Governor Pillen and the Nebraska Business Development Center Recognize Business Award Winners
April 2025
Tuesday, Governor Jim Pillen congratulated recipients of the annual Business Awards presented by the Nebraska Business Development Center (NBDC).
“NBDC provides businesses with the resources and guidance they need to grow, at no cost,” said Gov. Pillen...
Elevator Expands to Kansas City, Bringing Its Co-Warehousing Model to Local Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
February 2025
Elevator is expanding to Kansas City, offering flexible co-warehousing and office spaces designed for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and e-commerce brands...
Elevator: Rising to New Heights in Co-Warehousing Support
January 2025
In the bustling city of Omaha, a unique concept has been taking the entrepreneurial community by storm. Elevator, a co-warehousing and community space, has quickly become the go-to destination for small businesses...
Nebraska couple with Iowa ties opening Elevator, a co-warehousing company, in downtown Des Moines next spring
November 2024
When Shannon Lerda’s e-commerce business took over her family’s home in Omaha, she began looking for warehouse space where she could store supplies and package goods bought by customers...
Elevator Brings Co-Warehousing to Des Moines to Support Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship
October 2024
Elevator expands to Des Moines, offering flexible co-warehousing, funding, and support for entrepreneurs, creatives, and small businesses near Pappajohn Park...
Lifting Small Enterprise: Elevator Opens Unique Co-Warehousing Space
November 2022
A few years after founding a pet supply company in 2018, local entrepreneurs Emiliano and Shannon Lerda found themselves in a predicament that is more common among small, home-based business owners than many might imagine...
Building in Omaha's Old Market offers work space for small businesses
October 2022
An Old Market building is now open as a space for entrepreneurs and businesses to work, store items and fulfill orders.
The startup, Elevator, is at 14th and Jones Streets in the Old Market...
New Elevator co-warehousing community aims to lift e-commerce startups, fill gap in Omaha market
July 2022
OMAHA — Shannon Lerda and her family at times were quite literally up to their ears in boxes, bubble wrap, labels and pet supplies as the pandemic and their online sales accelerated...