By Mary Damiano
It’s going to get a lot easier to furnish that new South Florida home. Ikea is coming to Sunrise.
The new Ikea store—the first one in Florida—broke ground yesterday in Sunrise, on the corner of State Road 84 and Northwest 136th Street. Currently the closest Ikea store to South Florida shoppers is Atlanta.
The Sunrise Ikea store will have about 293,000 square feet of retail space, including three model homes, 50 room settings, a Swedish cafeteria and a play area for children. Ikea is known its 10,000 item product line of sleek, well-designed, reasonably priced home furnishings and accessories.
The Sunrise Ikea will be located right near Sawgrass Mills, the shopping, dining and entertainment complex that is the largest outlet mall in the country and has become one of the top tourist destination in Florida.
But even as ground was breaking on the Sunrise Ikea, there were talks about adding another in a few years to northern Palm Beach County. Studies have shown that residents there are less likely to make the hour-plus drive to Sunrise to shop at Sawgrass Mills.
Ikea in Sunrise is scheduled to open late next summer and will create 400 new jobs. It should also prove to be a boon to real estate in South Florida especially in the areas surrounding the store and Sawgrass Mills, communities like Sawgrass Preserve and Sawgrass Estates.
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