Sweetwater Opens Warehouse, More Work Planned
Fort Wayne is headquarters for Sweetwater Sound Inc. (photo provided)
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowBy this time next year, Fort Wayne-based Sweetwater Sound Inc. says it will have invested more than $100 million to expand its campus and improve its operations, starting with this week’s unveiling of a $52 million warehouse.
The online retailer of musical instruments and audio gear formally opened the 480,000-square-foot warehouse Monday.
Sweetwater held the groundbreaking in October 2018.
The company says the warehouse will allow for increased inventory to accommodate its growing business. Sweetwater says technology that was developed by its own IT team will allow orders to be processed and filled faster.
The retailer says it plans to break ground this July on a previously announced $31 million conference center. The company says the project will provide banquet and meeting space for the company.
It hopes to complete the project by the summer of 2021.
Sweetwater says it is also planning for over $20 million of additional construction and renovations that will occur between April 2020 and February 2021.