Let me just say this…
August 11th, 2006
It would be a very good time to click on of the subscribe links under this post, or set OHIKEA as your homepage for, oh, the next few days or so.
Very very good time.
Just sayin’.
:::whistles cryptically and walks away:::
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My husband just heard an announcement on the radio today (8/14) that IKEA is coming to West Chester.
Yipieeee!!
So … what will you do now that all your dreams have come true?
No need to wonder anymore! Just heard on 700WLW that Ikea announced West Chester as there first Ohio site. The formal press conference will happen tomorrow August15. Hip Hip Horray!!!! Have a good day all.
Monday morning - it is all over the news!!! but nothing yet on this site?
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060814/NEWS01/308140014
http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/08/14/daily6.html
IKEA coming to West Chester!!
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060814/NEWS01/308140014
From today’s Cincinnati Enquirer:
WEST CHESTER TWP. ? Trendy Swedish furniture retailer Ikea is building their Ohio store in this Butler County suburb.
Ikea will build a 300,000 or 350,000 square-foot store on a large vacant parcel adjacent to southbound Interstate 75 off Muhlhauser and Allen roads, Township Trustee George Lang said today.
Ikea, township and county officials are expected to make the announcement Tuesday at an 11 a.m. press conference at the township hall, 9113 Cincinnati-Dayton Rd.
?It will be huge. Assuming that tomorrow Ikea announces a West Chester location, that?s a major coup for West Chester because of the specialty type of retailer they represent,? Lang said.
?This will be their only store in the entire state so I am assuming they are drawing from hundreds of miles to attract customers there.?
Schumacher Dugan Construction is the developer of the Muhlhauser/Allen road site. Chris Wunnenberg, director of development, declined comment today.
County Administrator Derek Conklin and Lang said Ikea did not ask for a tax break.
?It never came on our radar screen,? Lang said.
Ikea officials could not immediately be reached for comment today. The retailer, which never asks for tax breaks, draws shoppers from hundreds of miles away.
With 250,000 Ohio customers, Ikea has been looking at Cincinnati for a store site, a company spokesman said earlier this summer.
But it?s also looking at Columbus, Cleveland and most other major U.S. markets, Ikea spokesman Joseph Roth has said.
The privately held chain opened its 28th store in June in Canton, Mich., near Detroit.
Ikea has more than 230 stores in 34 countries.
It opened its first U.S. store outside Philadelphia in 1985 and expects to have 50 U.S. stores in the next six or seven years.
Roth was noncommittal earlier this summer about recent speculation among local real estate brokers that Ikea was looking at sites along Interstate 75 in West Chester near Union Centre Boulevard.
West Chester officials have repeatedly declined comment on whether they?ve talked with Ikea representatives.
Ikea is expected to boost the visibility and attractiveness of the Union Centre Boulevard area, which has seen more than $1 billion in commercial development since the 1997 completion of a new highway interchange.
?I don?t know if it?s going to be the crown jewel,? Lang said, ?but it will definitely accelerate the development of Union Centre. A lot of people are going to want to come here because Ikea is here.?
Looks like West Chester will get the IKEA!!!
from hamilton journal news
http://www.journal-news.com/hp/content/news/stories/2006/08/14/hjn081406ikeaweb.html
IKEA to open West Chester store
By Jim Bebbington
Staff Writer
Monday, August 14, 2006
WEST CHESTER TWP., Butler County ? Swedish furniture maker IKEA is
finalizing plans to open its first Ohio store in West Chester, according
to sources familiar with the negotiations.
A press conference is expected Tuesday to formally announce the deal.
Company officials have declined comment in recent weeks over speculation
it was looking for an Ohio location. Others rumored to be under
consideration included the northern Columbus suburbs.
The stores are destination retail sites, with some customers driving
hundreds of miles to them. Stores are now located in the Pittsburgh and
Detroit suburbs.
Contact this reporter at (513) 755-5122 or jbebbington@coxohio.com.
Just got this in an email….
IKEA to open West Chester store
By Jim Bebbington
Staff Writer
Monday, August 14, 2006
WEST CHESTER TWP., Butler County ? Swedish furniture maker IKEA is finalizing plans to open its first Ohio store in West Chester, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
A press conference is expected Tuesday to formally announce the deal.
Company officials have declined comment in recent weeks over speculation it was looking for an Ohio location. Others rumored to be under consideration included the northern Columbus suburbs.
The stores are destination retail sites, with some customers driving hundreds of miles to them. Stores are now located in the Pittsburgh and Detroit suburbs.
Thanks Jen for the site and all the interest you have generated! As all the reports now show it all but official for Union Centre, everyone in Southern Ohio can rejoice! Now the long wait for opening day, and the hoping that we get a large store, not some Pittsburgh style IKEA mini mart!
According to this article, the press conference is scheduled for tomorrow
http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2006/08/14/daily5.html
WDTN (Channel 2) in Dayton just ran a teaser that we won’t have to drive far for Ikea any more!
Just saw this article posted on the Dayton Daily News this afternoon about a press conference to announce West Chester as the new Ohio Ikea sight on Tuesday 8/15/06.
and the winner is…
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060814/NEWS01/308140014
Yep, tonight’s news and the front page of the Cincinnati Enquirer says that IKEA will announce plans for a new store in West Chester tomorrow!