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From Home Furnishing Business
IKEA Submits Plans to Open Milwaukee Area Store
May 5,
2016 by in Industry, Store Openings 
IKEA, a home furnishings retailer, has submitted plans to the city of Oak, Wisc., for a store that would increase the Swedish company’s presence in the Midwestern United States as its first store in the state.
Construction of IKEA Oak Creek could begin in Spring 2017 with an opening in Summer 2018. The 295,000-square-foot proposed IKEA store and its approximately 1,200 parking spaces would be built on 29 acres at the northwestern corner of Interstate 94 and Drexel Avenue. Store plans reflect the same architectural design for which IKEA stores are known worldwide.
“We are excited at the possibility of growing our Midwestern U.S. presence with a Milwaukee-area store,” said Lars Petersson, president of IKEA U.S. “A location in this retail corridor would provide our already 206,000 Milwaukee-area customers their own store and introduce the unique IKEA shopping experience to others throughout Wisconsin.”