Sweetwater Sound is the No. 1 online retailer of music instruments and audio gear in the U.S., serving musicians, recording studios, broadcast, education and houses of worship nationwide. The company has experienced tremendous growth in the last decade, and as a result has embarked on several significant expansion projects. They have looked to Weigand Construction for numerous small jobs, major expansions, as well as the Purdue Fort Wayne School of Music Technology building, which opened on the Sweetwater campus in 2018.
Office & Warehouse Expansion
In May of 2013, Sweetwater Sound was looking to add space to their existing warehouse and office space within their corporate headquarters in Fort Wayne, IN. Weigand Construction was awarded the 132,013sf project, which included 55,074sf of warehouse space along with a 2-story, 76,939sf addition to their office area. The new office area offers 17 lesson rooms and 2 large training rooms for their Training Academy.
In-House Marketing Expansion & Retail Storefront
In 2016, Weigand was chosen to construct a 17,000sf in-house marketing department expansion complete with a state-of-the-art video studio. This expansion also included a new retail store front and separate showroom for each major category of equipment that they sell.
2020 New Distribution Center & Office Expansion
Completed in early 2020, Sweetwater Sound’s state-of-the-art distribution center acts as the core of the company’s lauded music gear shopping experience. The added building sits at 480,000 square feet, about four times the size of the initial fulfillment center, creating additional space and capacity to process orders at a much faster rate. With a substantially larger storage area and specialized, in-house sorting and picking technology systems, warehouse staff can pick, transport, package, and ship tens of thousands of same-day customer orders with incredible efficiency while maintaining a 99.9% shipment accuracy rating. Despite significant timeline, material, and staffing constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, our project team kept the job schedule on track and delivered the facility on time.
Weigand is happy to be a continued partner of Sweetwater Sound by helping not only grow their campus but also repurpose existing facilities for ongoing functionality.
