Milestone
May 8th is the day for the “official” groundbreaking! Who’s coming?
Scandinavian home furnishings chain Ikea will hold a ground-breaking for its West Chester location on May 8, kicking off the estimated year-long process of building the 340,000-square-foot store.
The event, at the southeast corner of Allen and Muhlhauser roads, begins at 11 a.m. and will be attended by Ikea and local city officials. The store is expected to open in the spring of 2008.
Ikea is known for its gigantic stores filled with modern but practical furniture at struggling-actor prices. The store in West Chester, its first in Ohio, will include a 350-seat cafeteria featuring Swedish specialties and a supervised children’s play area. It will cost an estimated $75 million to build.
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Needless to say I’ll be there and I’ll have doorprizes! I have about a dozen 2007 catalogs, and still have a mess of IKEA temporary tattoos that I’ve mentioned before, maybe even a few OHIKEA.com stickers… who knows.
And my husband said I was nuts earlier this month for buying a new OHIKEA shirt just to save for the occasion, but I showed him.
EDIT: More from the Middletown Journal here
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