Abt is significantly expanding its warehouse in Glenview to make way for bigger refrigerators, televisions and other household items.
The extra 100,000 square feet of space will bring the warehouse’s total size to just under 450,000 square feet. The expansion will also allow for the addition of 50 new loading docks, which will make customer deliveries faster, the company said.
“In simple terms, we needed more space,” Co-President Mike Abt said in a statement. “We’ve been continuing to add product categories in recent years (mattresses, furniture, water heaters) that not only create additional stock to store, but are also very bulky items. People are buying bigger appliances. Fridges are growing, TVs are growing, so we needed a way to stock those larger items.”
Abt plans to break ground on the warehouse addition by next month.
