Midwest Distribution Center Announced

March 22nd, 2007

Ikea planning distribution center in Joliet, IL. This will be the distribution center for Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio (YAY!) and whoever else is to come in the region I’m sure.

“Ikea expects to open a 650,000-square-foot distribution center as early as spring 2009, and said the site has the capacity to be expanded by another 770,000 square feet.” Holy moley.

Over a year or so ago I had reported a rumor that they had been sniffing in Ohio for this. It looks like they wanted the rail route more than the interstate route.

It was nice to see West Chester’s eventual opening mentioned though, it’s been so long staring at a ig plot of land with a long pond on it, so long which out major news, I’m kinda going into withdrawl. I’m not shaking or drooling yet, but the twitches are certainly present.

In other news, in the next week or so I’m going to be moving this blog to a new blogging software, and onto the ohikea.com domain (I’ve just been redirecting from there until now). So if you visit and it looks odd, or something, don’t panic. All is well, and soon will be even better!