Jacksonville: more room to grow in Florida

You can rent warehouse space almost anywhere in Florida. Finding room to grow into it is harder.

That is the gap Aldenbridge Warehousing built its Jacksonville facility to close. The site holds more than one million cases of capacity, sits next to a port that moved roughly 1.39 million TEUs (the standard shipping-container unit) last fiscal year, and connects to a highway network that puts 98 million consumers within a single day's drive. For a wine, spirits, or beverage brand chasing real distribution in Florida, that makes a big difference: a brand no longer has to choose between a warehouse that's too small and a lease that's too long.

Jacksonville plus Medley changes the math

Pairing Jacksonville with the Medley facility in South Florida improves the outcome significantly. Inventory can split north and south based on where customers actually sit, not based on which building happens to have space. Few 3PL providers in the state can offer that choice, because few operate more than one Florida location.

Jacksonville's current capabilities include:

• Pallet storage at scale, north of one million cases
• Order fulfillment and inventory management
• Cross-docking and refrigerated transportation for North Florida routes
• Bonded warehousing for duty-deferred storage
• Scheduled delivery service reaching into the western corridor, including Pensacola

A market keeping pace with demand

The surrounding market backs that capacity up. Jacksonville's Northside industrial corridor holds an estimated 32.5 million square feet of warehouse and distribution space. Demand there keeps climbing, and two things show it: recent leases from companies like Natural Life and Graybar, and new construction such as the nearly 3-million-square-foot NXT Point Logistics project. Together, they signal that the infrastructure around Jacksonville is keeping pace with demand, which matters to any beverage brand betting a Florida launch on its 3PL partner.

Map your Florida inventory with Aldenbridge

Brands mapping out where their Florida inventory should live are welcome to send Aldenbridge Warehousing their order data. The team will lay out honestly whether Jacksonville, Medley, or a mix of both fits best: warehousing@aldenbridge.com.