ENOUGH!

If you people from Cleveland would google this crap you’d find this yourselves:

Legacy denies IKEA rumors

Legacy Village officials, though, believe the Expo Design Center location is not big enough for an IKEA and are skeptical as to whether that company would come to Lyndhurst.”

Now, I said this months ago. STOP Spreading this rumor. Click for more and learn WHY!

If you look at what is pretty easy to find as IKEA’s requirements you’d see Legacy is the last place they’d go.

25 acres of land (min) - they won’t look at less I hear.

Lot must be adjacent to major interstate (and that means the building mst be NEXT to the highway, visible from road) a half a mile off the exit ramp is NOT acceptable.

They will not, that I’ve seen in the US anyway, move into pre-built spaces. If they buy a lot with a building on it (say a home depot) they will rip it down and build a new building to thier design and specs.

Thier specs include a giant cobalt and yellow blue box building the size of a small mall most times. Communities who balk at the paint color or throw up community aesthetic guidelines will be left cold as a swedish winter. This seems to be a non-neogitable from all I’ve seen. I’ve read news articles acknowledging they have thrown deals away over the building color or placement.

Usually they move in near College towns, and they like upscale locations, but that doens’t mean Richytown either. The Chicago location is in a large office park, in a well off suburb next to a highway and a huge major mall.

So reading all this, and looking at the site for Legacy Village, which by all reports is modeled after Rodeo Drive, does that look at all like a ideal IKEA location?

NO. It’s a horrible place for it. First, Lyndhurst and Legacy Station is in too rich a section of town - rich people don’t need (nor likely want) a $24 chair. They can afford a real Hermann Miller lounger.

It’s not nearly close enough to the highway, not enough room even if they explanded the space rumored to hold itand made if five stories tall. It’s a outdoor walking mall for god sake, how do you lug a cart of flatpacked bookcases to your Hyundai across a cobblestone street? Where the hell would you park, Thailand? Might as well pick up your Billy book case from the factory direct.

Not one thing about that rumor ever gave me even the twingeist of inklings. everything screamed “rumor.” And a bad one at that.

I’m sick of getting emails about it. Cleveland really just stop, I know you think you deserve one, but at least try to pass some decent rumors and stop falling for the bad ones.