Our team recently completed one of the largest and most complex commercial projects we’ve taken on in our local community — a full fencing package for Wells Community Aquatic Park in Bluffton. We’ve been sharing photos and video of the finished product, the installation process, and some of the unique challenges we ran into along the way. Here’s a closer look at what actually went into a project like this.
Not Just a Bigger Residential Fence
A lot of people assume commercial fencing is basically the same as residential fencing, just scaled up. In reality, it’s a different kind of project altogether. Commercial sites almost always come with layered requirements: safety considerations, multiple areas that each need their own kind of boundary, and often more than one stakeholder who has a say in the outcome — facility staff, city officials, and the people who use the space every day.
Wells Community Aquatic Park was a good example of that. It wasn’t a matter of running one style of fence around a single perimeter. The scope covered multiple distinct areas of the park, including the pickleball courts and the areas in and around the water park itself, each with different fencing needs. In total, the project called for four different fence styles, each serving a unique purpose while maintaining a cohesive appearance across the whole facility.
Multiple Areas, One Cohesive Look
A facility like Wells Community Aquatic Park isn’t a single, uniform space — it’s several distinct zones that all need to work together visually and functionally. The pickleball courts have their own fencing requirements, built around the sport itself. The pool and water park areas have their own set of needs, from safety and containment to simply standing up to constant sun, splash, and foot traffic.
Coordinating four fence styles across areas like these, so that the finished product reads as one intentional design rather than a patchwork of unrelated fences, takes real planning. It’s not something you figure out once you’re already on site — it starts well before the first post goes in the ground.
The Real Challenge: Coordination, Not Just Installation
Ask anyone on our crew and they’ll tell you the hardest part of a project like this usually isn’t digging, driving posts, or hanging panels — it’s everything around the installation. On a job with this many moving pieces, we were coordinating multiple fence systems, project requirements, and stakeholders all at once, across a facility that’s a hub for the community.
That kind of coordination is where a lot of commercial fencing projects run into trouble if the contractor isn’t set up for it. It’s not just about whether a crew can install a fence — it’s about whether they can manage a project with this many parts moving at the same time.
Why This Project Matters to Us
We’re extremely proud of how this project turned out. We believe it represents the quality, versatility, and capabilities Hoosier Fence brings to commercial projects of all sizes — from a single-style perimeter fence to a multi-area facility like Wells Community Aquatic Park, where pickleball courts and a water park needed to work together as one cohesive whole.
See the Finished Project
We’ve shared photos and video of the finished product, the installation process, and a few of the specific challenges our team worked through on-site at Wells Community Aquatic Park — check out our social media to see the project for yourself. If you’re planning a commercial fencing project of your own, request a bid today or browse our commercial fencing services to see what we can put together for you.