The concept of the collaborative economy has been integrated into the activity of dedicated micro storage for the last logistical mile of electronic commerce (e-commerce) in Mexico.

Since 2018, the startup Warehome, with origin in Cancun, has linked the supply and demand of small urban real estate spaces, but since last year its business model focused on the development of micro distribution centers.

That is, a person or owner, for example, in Mexico City, who has a free space at their home or other site, can register it on the Warehome platform and this, in turn, offers it to their clients, in mostly small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), which seek to be closer to their consumers online to make deliveries immediately.

To carry out the physical delivery of the products, Warehome has alliances with logistics partners such as 99 Minutes, Moova, Treggo, among others.

Warehome has a majority presence in Mexico City and Cancun, among 7 other states in the country, where it has accumulated an offer of 20 thousand square meters (m2) of micro spaces, in addition to already having the participation of 23 SMEs that manage around than 600 SKUs consistently.

For example, according to the real estate platform Solili, although during 2020 there was a stagnation in the construction of industrial spaces in the Valley of Mexico, for the last quarter of last year the start of the construction of 150 thousand meters was reported squares, being the northern zone where more developers expand or modify their inventories to adapt to demand.

In the short term, it is expected that the development and growth of new industrial zones will reach municipalities such as Zumpango and Huehuetoca, in the State of Mexico - where there is still land - and thus investment and infrastructure plans will be triggered.