Yahoo Finance The Country's Biggest IKEA Is Opening In California Next Month
Just in case your local IKEA store isn't sprawling enough, the Swedish retailer is opening a brand new store that will claim the title of largest in the country.
Burbank, California, are you prepared?
On February 8, at precisely 9 a.m. PST, a new 456,000-square-foot IKEA store will open in the Southern California city, offering customers 22 acres of Stockholm rugs, Fillsta pendants and String coffee tables - plus much more. How much more? Oh, just 10,000 exclusively -designed items, three model home interiors and 50 inspirational room settings.
If all of this sounds like a nightmare for you parents with children who tend to wander (aka every parent), fear not. The store will also include a supervised children's play area, and there will even be a 600-seat restaurant to fill up you and your kiddos' bellies with Swedish specialties midday, according to the company.
And if you're worried that more square footage will equate to more potential arguments with your spouse, IKEA has come up with a solution for that, too (way to be a step ahead, IKEA). The company recently launched a campaign to rename some of its products as "fixes" to relationship issues.
Burbank is situated northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and has a population of 103,000. The new store will be built less than a mile from the city's current store (the first IKEA in California), which will be converted into a major housing development with 765 apartments, according to Curbed. That store will stop operating February 4, just four days before the new mega-store opens.
May the IKEA-mania begin.
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