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The new headquarters would include corporate offices, a distribution center with warehouse, and a retail store. In 2006, with 220 employees and continued business growth, Sweetwater commissioned MSKTD & Associates to design and master plan a new 44-acre corporate campus at 5501 US Highway 30 W in Fort Wayne. In addition to its website, Sweetwater has several publications, including the ProGear Directory, Worship Sound Pro, and Music Educators Technology Resource., and a blog, inSync. Electronic Musician included as one of nine essential online information resources for a musician. In 1995, the company launched as an informational site, but by 1999 the site offered most of Sweetwater's inventory for purchase online. magazine's ranking of America's fastest growing companies in 1993, 1994, and 1995. By 1990, with six employees and annual sales of $6 million, Sweetwater had outgrown Surack's home and moved into its own commercial building at 5335 Bass Road, and Sweetwater's growth over the next several years earned it a place on Inc. Surack expanded Sweetwater to become a music retailer whose emphasis was pre- and post-sale customer service.

Surack became a Kurzweil dealer, but his clients were asking for advice regarding other products as well.

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When the Kurzweil K250 programmable keyboard and sampler was introduced in 1984, Surack became known for his custom K250 sound library and programming skills as well as his upgrade kits. The company originally offered recording services via a remote recording studio in Surack's Volkswagen microbus and a recording studio based out of his home. Chuck Surack established the company in 1979 in Fort Wayne, Indiana so that he could stop being a touring musician.

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