We do not have a warehouse in Sarasota. Ours is in Sanford, 154 road miles northeast, and everything ships from there: receiving, storage, pick and pack, kitting and returns, off one floor you can walk before you sign anything.
Here is a problem specific to shopping for fulfillment in this market, and it is one nobody warns you about. There is no published number for Sarasota. Whatever a local provider quotes you for storage, you have nothing to measure it against.
You hand over the physical work. Deliveries arrive and get counted against the notice you sent ahead. Everything gets a fixed home, so the number on the screen still matches the shelf six months later. Your storefront feeds orders straight through, we pick and box each one to the rules you set, and the parcel goes out on whichever carrier and service prices it best that day. Kits get built here and what comes back gets inspected and put where you said. The Florida order fulfillment page has the service list, the switching sequence and how the pricing works.
Industrial property in Florida gets surveyed every quarter, and the results are how anybody sensible checks whether a storage quote is reasonable. Cushman & Wakefield's coverage runs to eight Florida markets. Here they are, with the Q2 2026 asking rents, because they are already published on our Florida page.
| Florida market | Q2 2026 asking rent / sq ft |
|---|---|
| Fort Lauderdale | $17.67 |
| Miami | $15.73 |
| Palm Beach County | $13.69 |
| St. Petersburg / Clearwater | $11.85 |
| Tampa | $10.41 |
| Orlando | $9.52 |
| Lakeland | $8.61 |
| Jacksonville | $8.02 |
| Sarasota and Bradenton | not covered |
Source: Cushman & Wakefield, U.S. Industrial MarketBeat, Q2 2026. Rents are triple net. The eight markets above are the Florida coverage; Sarasota, Bradenton, Fort Myers and Naples are outside it. Other firms survey other footprints and none of the majors publishes Sarasota separately.
Every other city page on this site can put a local figure next to ours. This one cannot, and it would be dishonest to invent one.
What that means for you is practical rather than abstract. When a local provider quotes storage, you have no benchmark. You cannot tell whether the number is normal for the market, high because the market is tight, or high because they had a look at your website first. There is no published figure to check it against and there is not going to be one.
Three things, none of which require you to take anybody's word for anything.
The useful first step costs you nothing and works whoever you end up hiring. Send us your monthly order count and a rough storage footprint and we will come back with all four lines priced, from a market with a published benchmark, so you have something real to hold a local quote against.
About three hours. I-75 north for fifty miles, then I-4 east for ninety, and you are at the dock. No back roads and no route to learn. The I-4 express lanes through Orlando charge a toll, and they are optional.
Road distances and drive times calculated with OSRM at free-flow speeds, from our verified dock coordinates and from Sarasota City Hall, the same method used on every location page on this site. Free-flow means an empty road, which I-4 is not, so the miles are the number to trust and the minutes are the best case.
Where you are in the metro moves it. Palmetto and Bradenton are about 137 and 139 miles, so the north end of the market is a noticeably shorter run than Venice at 167 or North Port at 177.
Three hours each way is most of a working day, so the visit has to earn it. The thing worth seeing is not the office. Ask to stand where your pallets would land, ask what the building does when two large accounts ship on the same afternoon, and ask to be shown a bin that holds somebody else's stock and the count that goes with it. Whether the shelf and the screen agree in front of you is worth more than any number quoted at you across a desk.
We are open weekdays, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Call (800) 674-3441 a few days ahead and say you are driving up from Sarasota, and somebody who works the floor will be free when you arrive. What else to ask while you are standing there, plus directions, is set out on the Sanford page. The service this sits inside is warehousing and order fulfillment on contract, and the order workflow and the platforms we connect to are worth a look first.
No. One warehouse, in Sanford, 154 road miles northeast. Our exact address and how to find it are on the Sanford page.
Because the major quarterly industrial surveys cover eight Florida markets and this is not one of them. It is not a conspiracy, it is a coverage footprint, and it applies to Fort Myers and Naples too. The practical effect is that a storage quote here cannot be checked against a published figure the way one in Tampa or Orlando can.
Put it next to a quote from a market that is covered, and ask both providers what their storage rate is built from. You are not looking for the cheaper number. You are looking for the one that can explain itself.
We have no idea, and neither does anybody else, which is the entire point. What we can tell you is that our building sits in a market with a published asking rent of $9.52 a square foot, so the market our number comes out of is one you can look up. Whether theirs is higher or lower than that is unknowable from the outside.
Only if you choose it to be. It is I-75 then I-4. The express lanes through Orlando charge, and you can stay out of them.
Some will and some will not, and it depends on your carrier and service level rather than on anything we can assert. Moving the shelf changes every destination by a different amount. Send last quarter's destination ZIPs and we will put the real chart for both origins side by side.
Four lines: stock in, stock held, order picked and boxed, parcel moved. Ask for all four from everyone you speak to, because a quote that only prices storage is not a quote.
Send a monthly order count and a rough storage footprint and we will price all four lines. Use it as a yardstick even if you end up hiring locally. A number from a market somebody actually surveys is worth having in your hand when you sit down with a provider from one nobody does.
