Coral Gables is where the offices are: regional headquarters, agencies, law firms and the polished consumer brands they build. What it is not is a place to unload a pallet. Our warehouse sits 13 miles north in Medley, 20 to 25 minutes up Le Jeune and SR 836, and it handles the receiving, labeling and Amazon forwarding your address cannot.
George Merrick laid this city out in the 1920s around Mediterranean architecture, banyan canopy and controlled frontage, and the codes that protect it have never loosened much. It produced one of the most attractive business districts in the country, along with an ordinance culture so exacting that residents still argue about what may be parked in a driveway overnight.
The result is a commercial economy of offices. More than a hundred multinationals run their Latin America and Caribbean operations from buildings on Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Alhambra Circle. Consulates, banks, law firms, advertising and PR agencies, and the University of Miami sit in the same few square miles.
Consumer brands come out of that mix constantly. A regional office launches a product line in the US market. An agency takes a client from retail into Amazon. A founder with a Miracle Mile address builds something small and premium. All of them, within about a month, hit the same wall.
The wall is that nobody in a Gables office building can receive freight, store cases or apply barcodes at volume. There is no dock behind the lobby, no industrial zoning nearby, and no one on the org chart whose job is labeling. Since January 2026 Amazon will not do that work either, having withdrawn from prep and item-labeling services across its US network, with unprepped units that arrive damaged or vanish falling outside reimbursement.
Which leaves Medley, thirteen miles up the road: a working industrial corridor next to the airport where trailers back in, product is counted properly, and the paperwork your finance team wants exists as a matter of routine.
| What the operation needs | Why the Gables cannot supply it | What our dock supplies |
|---|---|---|
| A place for freight | Office towers have service bays, not freight docks | Trailers to 53 ft, containers, LCL and air freight |
| Inventory space | No industrial district, tightly controlled land use | Bin and pallet racking billed monthly on space used |
| Prep labor | Barcode application is on nobody's job description | Scan-verified FNSKU, bagging, kitting, case packing |
| A paper trail | Finance cannot reconcile a text message | PO counts, photo condition reports, box content data |
| Proximity | Distant 3PLs turn every question into a ticket | 20–25 min via Le Jeune, SR 836 and the Palmetto |
Domestic freight, imported containers and your own car trunk, all counted against the purchase order and reported the same day they land.
Condition photographed, shortages itemized, defects flagged before prep begins, so a supplier conversation has evidence behind it.
FNSKU applied clear of logos and ingredient panels, scan-verified, with expiration dates and relabeling handled where required.
Multipacks, gift sets and influencer kits assembled from components. Details on our kitting service page.
Reserve stock racked in Medley and released as the campaign or the sell-through calls for it, billed monthly on the footprint used.
FBA cartons manifested with their box contents, plus Shopify, Walmart and wholesale orders — see Amazon 3PL Miami.
A familiar sight in Gables offices in the weeks before a campaign. The stock moves to our racks, gets prepped once, and gets released against the launch calendar instead of blocking a room people need for meetings.
Separation is a setup decision, made before the first delivery. Each brand gets its own identified locations and its own reporting, and prep instructions are tied to whoever you name as the authorized contact for that account.
You do not need to. Your forwarder clears and delivers to Medley, we count and prep, and Amazon receives the result. We stay out of the customs role, which is where a broker belongs, not a warehouse.
For a premium brand that is not a small mistake. Label placement is agreed in writing before the first unit is touched, and it is applied the same way on every unit after that.
You describe the product, volume and prep steps; we send back the per-unit rates and the address your shipper needs, inside a business day.
Suppliers, forwarders or your own drivers are pointed at 8871 NW 102nd St, with the PO reference attached.
Counted, photographed, labeled, bagged, kitted and case packed within our standard 24 to 48 hour turnaround.
Cartons leave for Amazon's assigned centers with box content data, and you get the record of what went where.
Twenty to twenty-five minutes for most of the city, which makes Coral Gables one of the closest places we serve. From the Ponce de Leon and Alhambra Circle area, take Le Jeune Road (SR 953) north, pick up SR 836 westbound, then the Palmetto (SR 826) north and exit at NW 103rd Street. It is about 13 miles and nearly all of it is expressway. From the south Gables and Old Cutler side, add roughly ten minutes to reach Le Jeune.
Realistically, yes, and Gables clients do it more than anyone else we serve. Call or email before you leave, and receiving paperwork is printed and waiting when you pull up to 8871 NW 102nd St. A drop-off of a few cartons takes minutes at the dock, and the round trip fits inside a long lunch. We receive weekdays from 9:00 to 18:00.
Yes, and that combination is common here given how many regional headquarters sit in this city. Your forwarder handles clearance and delivers to Medley. Customs work is not something this warehouse does, and we never sit in the importer of record seat, so DDP terms keep the responsibilities clean. Air freight arriving at MIA reaches our dock in about ten minutes, and containers drayed from PortMiami take roughly twenty-five.
Yes, with the account structure agreed up front. Some agencies run everything under their own account and bill it through to the client; others prefer each brand set up separately so reporting and inventory stay divided. Either works. What we need in writing is who authorizes prep instructions and releases for each brand, so nobody at the warehouse is guessing whose shipment is whose.
Yes. Every inbound is counted against the purchase order you send us, discrepancies are itemized rather than absorbed, and damage is photographed at receiving. Outbound FBA shipments carry box content data. For a Coral Gables company where procurement, finance and marketing are three different people, that paper trail is usually the reason the relationship survives the first quarter.
Everything upstream of the sale moves to a building designed for it. Trailers up to 53 feet back into our door, containers are unloaded by hand or forklift, and nothing arrives on Ponce de Leon Boulevard for a receptionist to sign. This city was planned in the 1920s around architecture and tree canopy, not freight, and it holds that line firmly. Send the pallets north instead of fighting it.
That is a standing instruction for most Gables brands. FNSKU labels are placed to avoid logos, ingredient panels and manufacturer barcodes, applied flat, and rescanned so nothing unreadable leaves the building. Where a product qualifies to ship in its own packaging, we tell you rather than adding a box you did not need. When an outer bag is unavoidable, it goes on with the branding still facing out.
They can, and it saves you splitting stock across two providers. Kits are assembled from components on the same floor that preps your Amazon shipments, packed to your spec with your inserts if you supply them, and shipped to the recipient list you send. The FBA lane and the marketing lane draw from one counted inventory instead of two half-empty ones.
About ten minutes. Coral Gables already sits close to the airport, since Le Jeune Road runs from the Gables straight to the terminals, and our building is just past it on the other side of the Palmetto. Air freight consigned to us is typically on our dock the same day it clears the cargo facility, which shortens the gap between a landing and a live listing considerably.
A short description of the product, monthly unit volume, the prep steps you believe it needs, and how inventory reaches Miami: your car, a domestic carrier, or an importer's freight. Mention if kitting, storage or non-Amazon channels should be included. A rate sheet priced per unit, along with the delivery instructions your shipper will need, comes back inside one business day, with nothing to pay up front and no monthly floor to hit.
Send us the product, your monthly unit volume, the prep steps you think it needs and how the goods reach Miami. A per-unit rate sheet and dock instructions land in your inbox inside one business day, with nothing to pay to open the account and no floor to clear each month.
