Ikea Sets Plans for Denver-Area Store

March 16, 2010  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on March 17, 2010

Home furnishings retailing giant Ikea announced Tuesday that it has selected a site and hired contractors for its future Denver-area store in Centennial, Col.

The store is scheduled for a Fall 2011 grand opening. Ikea has retained Centennial-based Saunders Construction as the construction management firm. Other firms involved with the new store include: CLC Associates for civil design; Kimley Horn Associates as traffic consultants during the approval process; Ground Engineering providing environmental analysis and geotechnical services; Otten Johnson Robinson Neff & Ragonetti serving as local counsel; real estate brokerage firm Legend Retail Group assisting Ikea in the site selection process; Geothermal Systems of Colorado installing the geothermal component, and Miller Global selling the land. Atlanta-based GreenbergFarrow is architect responsible for store design, site planning and construction documents.

"With our land purchased, team selected and site-work permit pending, we now can schedule IKEA Centennial to open Fall 2011," said Doug Greenholz, Ikea real estate director, in a release. "Construction crews soon will begin clearing and grading the site, and we look forward to breaking ground officially in a couple of months."

The 415,000 square-foot future Ikea Centennial store, with approximately 1,500 parking spaces, will be built on 13.5 acres along the western side of Interstate 25 in the Park Meadows area, accessible from connections to Dry Creek Road and County Line Road exits, and will employ approximately 400 coworkers when the new store opens.

Ikea currently has more than 300 IKEA stores in 38 countries, including 37 in the United States.