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Omaha Nebraska Based Warehouse for Midtown Omaha

Flexible storage, fulfillment and freight service sixteen minutes from Midtown, right off I-80.

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Why Midtown Businesses Choose Gratton Warehouse

Green park lawn and walking paths beside new brick and glass buildings in the Midtown district of Omaha, Nebraska
Midtown Crossing · Omaha, Nebraska

Midtown stretches west from downtown along Farnam and Dodge Streets and is one of the busiest and most walkable parts of the city of Omaha. Hospitals and Creighton University anchor the area, the Blackstone District fills evenings with diners, and Joslyn Art Museum, Midtown Crossing and dense apartment blocks bring a steady flow of residents and customers.

Space is tight in Midtown, where storefronts are small and rents are high. Gratton offers a practical alternative: a warehouse in Omaha, NEBirds-eye photo of the Gratton storage building, dock doors and car park in southwest OmahaGratton's Omaha BuildingGratton's lone facility, 11005 E Circle in southwest Omaha, is a short interstate drive from Midtown, and every client account is served from that location. that your team can reach in about 16 minutes. Our one facility, at 11005 E Circle, Omaha, NE 68137, lies 11.1 miles away via I-480 and I-80, so stock moves out of your shop and into room built for pallets.

Think about what fills a Midtown back room. A restaurant group keeps dry goods and serving ware, a retailer stocks seasonal merchandise, a clinic supplier holds packaged consumables and a design studio ships product samples to clients across the country. None of them wants to pay city rent for cartons that sit still. Moving that overflow to a third-party logistics partner returns floor space to customers and staff. Contract, seasonal, public and overflow room is rented here by the month, with no minimum, so a campaign needing 20 pallets this quarter and 60 the next is never locked into a fixed footprint. One dedicated account manager handles the details.

Once goods reach our docks, the work is routine and well organized. Crews handle container loading and unloading, sort mixed loads through cross-docking steps and break bulk freight into store or customer sized lots. Midtown boutiques and online brands can pass along pick and pack tasks, with parcels leaving through UPS, FedEx or USPS. Larger orders go out by LTL or truckload, and walk-in customers can use will-call pickup. Loads can weigh anywhere from one pound up to 10,000, with a single piece reaching 5 tons, and general merchandise, apparel, electronics and toys all sit comfortably within the product types we take in.

Everything is visible online. Our warehouse management system, running on software from 3PL Central (Extensiv), displays stock counts, open orders and shipments on any phone or laptop, which suits owners who split their day between a storefront and a laptop. Handheld RF barcode scanners log receipts and picks as they happen, and surveillance cameras cover the facility. B2B Omaha named the company a 2023 Best of B2B winner, and it holds memberships in AIB, the Chamber and the National Safety Council. Finance teams can pull inventory reports straight from the same cloud screen.

To start, ring (402) 339-9993 on any weekday, when phones are staffed from 8:00 am to half past four, Central. Describe the products, how quickly they turn over and how many SKUs you manage, from one item to 5,000. Your dedicated account manager will talk through receiving and shipping around your sales calendar. Before committing, a Midtown company may request a warehousing quote and see how it stacks up with what extra square feet near Dodge Street would run. Gratton has passed through four generations of the same family, so whoever explains the plan will still be here to carry it out.

Made for Midtown

How Gratton Supports Midtown Businesses

Neighborhood retailers, restaurants and health suppliers lean on an Omaha warehouseOverhead photo of Gratton's long roof line, dock doors and truck court on a sunny dayMetro Storage OptionKeeping inventory in a metro-area building lets city companies free up expensive retail and office floor space while staying close to their stock. when their own rooms fill up. These are four ways Midtown clients put us to work.

Shelves of boxed kitchen supplies, dry goods and glassware in a clean bright storage room

Restaurants and Cafes

Blackstone and Midtown Crossing restaurateurs can move bulk dry goods and serving supplies out of tight kitchens and into organized storage.

A busy dining room has no spare square footage for cases of paper goods, glassware or canned items. Gratton keeps those supplies on racks, and the FDA-registered building is equipped for food-grade storage products, with temperature-controlled space available for items that need it. Kitchen staff or a driver can collect an order by will-call, or it can ship by LTL to a second location. Expedited delivery is on the menu when a big event or a holiday service arrives sooner than the next regular run.

Colorful folded apparel, toys and boxed gifts arranged on warehouse shelves beside a packing table

Neighborhood Retailers

Boutiques and specialty shops need to keep back stock away from the sales floor while still filling web orders on time.

Gratton holds your seasonal stock, then ships single orders to web shoppers through e-commerce fulfillment workflows that use barcode verification. Apparel, textiles, toys and consumer products are all familiar to our crews. Returns management is part of the service, and the warehouse management system shows what came back so a Midtown shop can refresh its shelves without hunting for the box. When a gift season arrives, you add seasonal space for a few weeks and scale back after New Year on month-to-month terms. That freedom lets small brands try ideas that a cramped back room would never allow.

Neatly labeled medical supply boxes and sealed cartons on tall clean shelves in a bright storage room

Health and Education Suppliers

Companies that serve clinics, labs and campuses near Creighton and the medical district benefit from careful handling and traceable stock.

Packaged consumables, forms, uniforms and teaching materials arrive in unpredictable volumes. Gratton follows every item with inventory tracking, stores goods under surveillance cameras and offers temperature-controlled storage for products that must stay in range. Hazmat services are available for regulated items, and document storage handles records that are kept but rarely opened. JIT delivery lets you stage supplies for a semester start or a clinic opening. Stock records in the inventory reports view show how fast supplies move. Because we are a flexible partner with a dedicated account manager, special project assistance covers odd jobs like kitting welcome packets for new students.

Crates, display kits and boxes of promotional giveaways stacked on pallets in a large bright storage area

Event and Brand Teams

Marketing groups and event planners can keep booth materials, banners and giveaways ready for the next festival or product launch.

Omaha's calendar of festivals, conferences and tournaments gives brands plenty of reasons to hold promotional stock. Gratton stores display kits, pallets of giveaways and sample products, then ships them by truckload or small-package carrier when the booth needs them. With pallet storage suited to oversized crates, large exhibits can wait here on month-to-month terms. When the event wraps, leftovers return to us and wait for the next one. Our floor crew also does sub-assembly and kitting, so display parts and printed pieces ship together through our order fulfillment team in one ready-to-use set.

About Gratton Warehouse Company

Inside the Gratton Warehouse facility in Omaha: tall orange pallet racking stocked with bagged goods, a reach truck, and boxed pallets staged on the floor

Gratton Warehouse Company started out in Omaha in 1894 and remains under the guidance of one family, today in its fourth generation. Midtown firms often value that kind of stability, because a business near Dodge Street may plan its stock well ahead, in a neighborhood that blends historic blocks with new construction, and lean on careful inventory tracking to do it. Over more than 130 years the company has seen freight move from rail yards to interstate trucks and from paper ledgers to the cloud. G5 Logistics is the company behind the operation today, and Gratton serves as an Omaha, NE warehouseHigh aerial photo of the Gratton property near the interstate, showing docks and lawnLocally Owned Since 1894One family has held ownership of Gratton across four generations, and the company has operated in Omaha since 1894. option that treats a small startup with the same care as an established account.

Location helps. The building stands near I-80, with access close to other major highways, so a Midtown truck takes the I-480 freeway and skips the downtown grid. Choosing public warehousing terms means flexible month-to-month arrangements with no minimums. As an Omaha Chamber member, Gratton sits in the same business community that fills Midtown's offices, shops and clinics, and a warehousing quote request is the easiest way to compare options with your current rent.

Services That Fit Midtown Brands

The service list runs from contract, seasonal, public and overflow storage to value-added work such as cross-docking transfers, pick and pack, kitting, sub-assembly, handling of returns and help with special projects. Expedited delivery is available when plans change. LTL, truckload and small-package shipping are covered too, along with break-bulk work that turns one pallet into many store orders. A Midtown retailer can hand distribution services from receiving through delivery to one third-party logistics partner instead of juggling several vendors, with a single point of contact for questions.

Products vary widely across the neighborhood, and so does our handling. We store textiles, apparel, electronics, toys, industrial products, machinery and general merchandise, together with grocery and natural foods that need food-grade storage space. Items range from one pound up to 10,000, and a catalog can carry anywhere between one SKU and 5,000. Document storage suits professional offices that have outgrown file rooms, and movie-set pieces can wait here between productions. Hazmat services and temperature-controlled storage cover the regulated and sensitive items that some Midtown clinics and labs carry. Because RF scanning feeds the inventory tracking behind every movement, you can see where items sit from any device, and your account manager answers questions about them.

Easy Reach From Midtown

Sixteen minutes separates Midtown from our dock, so a customer who needs to collect an order through will-call can do so between meetings downtown. Because the route follows I-480 and I-80, the trip avoids most surface-street congestion. Shops that restock the same items each week can plan collection around Monday through Friday office hours, and bigger shipments ride out by LTL or full truckload, with partial loads combined through freight consolidation work when that saves an extra trip. Pallet-level pallet storage keep bulky stock off your own floor entirely, which matters in a neighborhood where every square foot near Farnam or Dodge carries a premium. Seasonal and overflow space can be added when a promotion or a holiday rush arrives and released again when it ends, with inventory reports to show how the stock moved.

The first step is a short conversation. Send over your product list, estimated monthly volumes and carrier preferences, and the team will talk through receiving, storage and outbound shipping, including container unloading, JIT and break-bulk work where they apply. Afterward, one account manager fields every change request and rush job. Plenty of Midtown owners discover that outsourcing storage through contract warehousing terms gives them hours back each week for selling, recruiting and serving customers, which is where a growing neighborhood business most needs its people.

Certified Services

Services Midtown businesses use, delivered from our one Omaha facility along the I-80 corridor.

  • Full-service receiving & putaway
  • Pick, pack & kitting
  • Same-day order fulfillment
  • Freight forwarding & cross-docking
  • Temperature-controlled storage
  • Hazmat certified facility
  • Real-time cloud WMS visibility
  • Dedicated account management

Technology & Services

Cloud tools that keep Midtown stock visible anywhere.

Cloud WMS PlatformReal-time inventory visibility, order tracking, and reporting from any device, anywhere.
Multi-Carrier ShippingUPS, FedEx, USPS, LTL freight — we optimize carrier selection for your budget and timeline.
Pick, Pack & KittingCustom assembly, bundling, and branded packaging solutions for any product type.
Returns ManagementStreamlined reverse logistics keeps your inventory accurate and customers satisfied.

Ready to Free Up Midtown Space?

Tell the Gratton team what is crowding your Midtown shop and we will suggest a storage plan.

Getting to Gratton Warehouse from Midtown

From Midtown Crossing the trip covers about 11.1 miles and normally takes 16 minutes. Most drivers join I-480 south, change to I-80 heading west and exit at West Center Road, a quick run for deliveries that need cross-docking handling.

  1. Leave Midtown, Omaha, NE heading toward the nearest main road.
  2. Turn right onto Turner Park Circle.
  3. Take the ramp onto I-80 for about 5.7 miles.
  4. Continue straight onto West Center Road.
  5. Turn right onto South 108th Street for about 0.9 miles.
  6. Turn right onto E Circle.
  7. Arrive at Gratton Warehouse, 11005 E Circle, Omaha, NE 68137, on the left.
11.1Miles
~16Minutes

A trip to a warehouse in Omaha, NEAerial photo of the Gratton dock area where customers arrive to collect ready ordersQuick Will-Call TripsMidtown customers can head to the dock for a will-call pickup and be back in the neighborhood after roughly half an hour on the road. adds little to a Midtown workday. Pick up a will-call order or drop off cartons, and you can be back in the neighborhood before lunch. Call ahead on a weekday so someone is ready for you before the late-afternoon close.

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