{"id":1004284472,"date":"2018-12-07T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004284472"},"modified":"2022-12-09T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:46:10","slug":"ikea-to-open-first-us-city-center-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ikea-to-open-first-us-city-center-store\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA to Open First US City Center Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Holly Dutton<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004284475\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/12\/Capture-e1544131256750.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004284475\" data-attachment-id=\"1004284475\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ikea-to-open-first-us-city-center-store\/capture-150\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/12\/Capture-e1544131256750.png\" data-orig-size=\"1235,787\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Capture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;999 Third Avenue&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/12\/Capture-e1544131256750.png?w=1024\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1004284475 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/12\/Capture-e1544131256750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/12\/Capture-e1544131256750.png 1235w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/12\/Capture-e1544131256750.png?resize=300,191 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/12\/Capture-e1544131256750.png?resize=768,489 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/12\/Capture-e1544131256750.png?resize=1024,653 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004284475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">999 Third Avenue<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IKEA U.S. has announced plans for its first city center store in the country, which will be located in Manhattan. The retail location will open at 999 Third Ave. in the Midtown neighborhood of New York City in the spring of 2019. The new store also marks the first IKEA Planning Studio concept to open in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe recognize that we are in a rapidly changing retail environment, and to be fit for long-term growth, IKEA is transforming in a way that lets us meet our customers where they are,\u201d <\/em>said Lars Petersson, country manager at IKEA Retail U.S., in prepared remarks. <em>\u201cNew York City is the natural choice to open the first city center store\u2014the most vibrant, dynamic city in the U.S., and the epicenter of retail, business, and culture.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ikea-inks-975-ksf-for-staten-island-facility\/\">IKEA signed a lease for 975,000 square feet<\/a> at a Staten Island, N.Y, distribution facility as part of its Matrix Global Logistics Park. The deal followed two other leases from November 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ikea-leases-1-7-msf-in-tx-ca\/\">for customer fulfillment centers<\/a> in Baytown, Texas, and American Canyon, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image via Google Street View<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new location, which will feature the nation\u2019s first IKEA Planning Studio concept, is scheduled to open in Midtown Manhattan in the spring of 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":1004284475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21784,21743,1600,21742,10,21749],"tags":[43277,33449,35848],"class_list":["post-1004284472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brokerage","category-deals","category-new-york","category-latest","category-northeast","category-retail","tag-999-third-avenue","tag-ikea","tag-lars-petersson"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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