Established in 2019, Storehouse 408 was the vison of owners Matt & Amy Jakubaitis since their own wedding in 2009. At the time, wedding venues included banquet halls and hotel ballrooms. It wasn't easy to find a venue that was unique, personal, affordable, and still offered all the services of a standard banquet hall. So... Matt and Amy started their journey to establishing Storehouse 408.
It took nearly 8 years of hunting to find a building that matched the vision. It needed to tick a few boxes:
- Be located somewhere easily accessible to multiple cities
- Have indoor and outdoor gathering spaces
- Have onsite parking
- Have character and style
The building, which was previously a Beer Store (in fact... legend has it it was Ontario's oldest still-standing Beer Store up until 2017), had all the elements they were looking for.
- It is located less than 5 minutes off of Hwy 401 in Cambridge, close to multiple hotels, stores, coffee shops & restaurants.
- It was 4,000 square feet of open space, with a big backyard area (that at the time needed a lot of work!)
- It already had ample parking, and the opportunity to create more parking spaces was there
- It... didn't have much character. But that's ok. Character can be injected with the right design elements!
So in 2017 Matt & Amy bought the building, spent most of 2018 & 2019 renovating it, and officially opened in May 2019 with their first event on May 9th (fun fact... this was also their 10-year wedding anniversary!)
The rest, as they say, is history.
