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' entrepreneurial community, adding that expansions like ours reinforce Missouri's reputation as "a prime location for innovative businesses." That's not the kind of thing we could have written about ourselves — it's the kind of recognition that comes from actually building something the state wanted to see happen.
If you're comparing working spaces in St. Louis right now, we think that context is worth knowing before you even get to square footage and pricing.
The Building Itself
Our St. Louis location is at 1230 Macklind Avenue — a 67,300-square-foot building originally constructed in 1963, sitting on nearly three acres in the Kings Oak area, roughly midway between Interstate 64 and Interstate 44. It's about five miles from downtown St. Louis, close enough for a client meeting without being in the middle of downtown traffic.
The building itself was built to handle real logistics work: 13 dock-high doors, 12.5-foot clear ceiling height, and 400- and 800-amp electrical service, with zoning that supports outdoor storage as well as indoor space. We didn't retrofit a random office building and hope it worked for warehousing — this is a property built from the ground up for exactly this kind of operation, which is part of why it made sense as our largest location to date. St. Louis Downtown Airport sits about 10 miles southeast, which matters if your business ever needs air freight access, not just ground shipping.
This is also our fifth location overall and our second in Missouri, following our North Kansas City facility. That matters less as a vanity number and more as a track record — by the time we built out St. Louis, we'd already learned what does and doesn't work in a co-warehousing environment across four other cities.
Recognized at the State Level
Greater St. Louis, Inc. covered the announcement directly, and Ron Kitchens, CEO of the regional economic development organization, put it plainly: our expansion into St. Louis reflects a region attracting entrepreneurs from around the country, not just growing its own. Combined with the Governor's comments, it's a level of civic attention that most flexible workspace providers never get, and it's not something we take lightly. It tells us St. Louis wanted a solution like this in the market, not just that we wanted to be here.
What "Working Spaces" Actually Means Here
We built our St. Louis location to cover more ground than a typical coworking listing implies. It includes private offices, open coworking areas, warehouse units with loading dock access, meeting rooms, and event space — all under one roof, with shared equipment, meeting rooms, and daily carrier pickups included as standard, not an upsell. Everything runs month-to-month with all-inclusive pricing, so a working space here can mean a desk for a solo founder one month and a warehouse suite with an office attached the next, without switching addresses or vendors.
That range matters because "working space" means something different depending on the business. A service-based consultant needs a desk and a meeting room. A product-based brand needs all of that plus somewhere to receive freight and ship orders. We didn't want St. Louis entrepreneurs choosing between the two.
Why We Chose St. Louis
Our co-founders built Elevator out of their own experience running an e-commerce brand, and that shaped what we looked for in St. Louis specifically. As Shannon Lerda, our President and Co-Founder, put it when we announced the location: having run an e-commerce brand ourselves, we know the challenges of shipping, storage, and working from home, and we built Elevator to offer the flexibility and community we wished existed when we started. Our CEO, Emiliano Lerda, has said St. Louis stood out because of its entrepreneurial energy — the kind of local business community that makes a co-warehousing model actually work, rather than just filling square footage.
That's not just marketing language, either. Before we open in any city, we're looking for a specific combination: enough entrepreneurial density that a shared community actually functions, plus the kind of practical logistics access (interstate proximity, dock access, real square footage) that a home office or a standard coworking desk simply can't offer. St. Louis had both, and the state-level attention around our opening suggested the market agreed there was a real gap to fill.
What to Look For in Working Spaces in St. Louis
If you're comparing more than just us, here's what actually matters once you look past the marketing:
- Does it flex between office and warehouse needs, or does it force you to pick one and find a second space for the other?
- Loading dock access, if there's any chance your business will need to receive or ship freight.
- Month-to-month terms, since most growing businesses can't predict their space needs years out.
- Real proximity to major roads, not just a downtown zip code with no practical access.
- Shared equipment and amenities included, not billed separately every time you need them.
- A community of other businesses, since a lot of the value in a working space comes from who else is there, not just the square footage.
For more detail specifically on the warehouse side of what we offer, what we've written specifically about warehouse space in St. Louis covers that in depth.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Elevator's St. Louis location? It's at 1230 Macklind Avenue in St. Louis, in the Kings Oak area, roughly midway between Interstate 64 and Interstate 44, about five miles from downtown.
How big is Elevator's St. Louis location? The building is 67,300 square feet, making it our largest location, with 13 dock-high doors and free on-site parking.
Do I need a long-term lease for working space in St. Louis? No. Our memberships are month-to-month, so you're not committing to a multi-year lease to access office or warehouse space.
What's included in a working space membership at Elevator? Membership includes access to shared amenities like meeting rooms, warehouse equipment, daily carrier pickups, and utilities, with pricing that covers all of it rather than billing separately.
Is Elevator's St. Louis location just for product-based businesses, or can service businesses use it too? Both. We built the location to cover private offices and coworking space for service-based businesses as well as warehouse units for product-based companies.
Is this Elevator's first location in Missouri? No — St. Louis is our fifth location overall and our second in Missouri, following our North Kansas City location, which opened in December 2025.
Curious what our St. Louis building actually looks like? Book a tour of our St. Louis location and see it for yourself.
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