The St. Louis region sits at both the geographic and population centers of the country, a multimodal hub of roadways, airways, railways, waterways, and pipelines. Here, three major rivers, four interstate highways, and all six Class I railroads intersect.
Our robust trade, transportation, and warehousing sector comprises 6,000 establishments and over 110,000 employees. Multinational brands like Hershey, Unilever, and Procter & Gamble house regional distribution facilities each exceeding one million square feet. Notable wholesalers and distribution headquarters include Graybar, UniGroup and World Wide Technology. Amazon operates a dozen distribution warehouses in Greater St. Louis with 7 million square-feet and employing 7,000 workers.
The St. Louis region offers abundant flat land and extensive real estate suitable for distribution centers, including more than 8,000 buildings with a collective 350 million square feet of industrial space, as well as two large Foreign-Trade Zones with more than 10,000 acres of sites.
The St. Louis region offers businesses:
- An ideal environment for wholesale and warehousing
- A wealth of transportation assets and infrastructure
- 2 passenger airports with 70 non-stop destinations
- A central U.S. location
- Skilled and unskilled labor availability
- An efficient bistate transportation system
- 11,000 acres of Foreign Trade Zone sites
