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Portlanders’ IKEA Dreams Come True
Yep, Portlanders…your meatball dreams….I mean, Swedish home furnishing fantasies come true in late July. Ahead of schedule even.
From the Oregonian:
Swedish home furnishings retailer IKEA announced today its first Oregon store will open at 9 a.m. Wednesday July 25.
The 280,000-square-foot store, on 19 acres, will anchor Cascade Station, a 120-acre mixed-use development planned to include office, hotel and retail near Portland International Airport. The store is under construction at the southwest corner of Interstate 205 and Airport Way.
Like many of its more than 250 stores worldwide, IKEA’s Portland store will offer 50 different room settings, three model homes, supervised children’s play areas and a 250-seat restaurant serving Swedish specialties.
A MAX light rail stop is located near the front of the store, which will include about 1,200 parking spaces and 75 bicycle racks.
True to Portland form, it means you can haul your Effectiv modular desk set home on mass transit (or by bike), if needed. Until now, Portlanders had to hump it up I-5 to Renton, WA (a Seattle suburb) for their fix of Scandinavian-design furniture and Swedish meatball lunch.
[tags] IKEA, Portland, Oregon, shopping [/tags]
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Jody stands at the front door gazing through the glass whispering “OPEN, OPEN, OPEN.” I can’t wait; not so much for the furniture, but for the kitchen stuff!
Be warned….when the Ikea opened in my area it basically shut down the highway system around it due to the amount of traffic. Nobody even saw it coming…
It was like something you would see in a movie when a city is about to fall off the continent or aliens are going to attack. People couldn’t get there fast enough…
I don’t get it myself.
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