WEST CHESTER TWP. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Trendy Swedish furniture retailer Ikea is building their Ohio store in this Butler County suburb.
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\nIkea will build a 300,000 or 350,000 square-foot store on a large vacant parcel adjacent to southbound Interstate 75 off Muhlhauser and Allen roads, Township Trustee George Lang said today.<\/p>\n
Ikea, township and county officials are expected to make the announcement Tuesday at an 11 a.m. press conference at the township hall, 9113 Cincinnati-Dayton Rd.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will be huge. Assuming that tomorrow Ikea announces a West Chester location, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a major coup for West Chester because of the specialty type of retailer they represent,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lang said.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This will be their only store in the entire state so I am assuming they are drawing from hundreds of miles to attract customers there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Schumacher Dugan Construction is the developer of the Muhlhauser\/Allen road site. Chris Wunnenberg, director of development, declined comment today.<\/p>\n
County Administrator Derek Conklin and Lang said Ikea did not ask for a tax break.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It never came on our radar screen,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lang said.<\/p>\n
Ikea officials could not immediately be reached for comment today. The retailer, which never asks for tax breaks, draws shoppers from hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n
With 250,000 Ohio customers, Ikea has been looking at Cincinnati for a store site, a company spokesman said earlier this summer.<\/p>\n
But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also looking at Columbus, Cleveland and most other major U.S. markets, Ikea spokesman Joseph Roth has said.<\/p>\n
The privately held chain opened its 28th store in June in Canton, Mich., near Detroit.
\n Ikea has more than 230 stores in 34 countries.<\/p>\n
It opened its first U.S. store outside Philadelphia in 1985 and expects to have 50 U.S. stores in the next six or seven years.<\/p>\n
Roth was noncommittal earlier this summer about recent speculation among local real estate brokers that Ikea was looking at sites along Interstate 75 in West Chester near Union Centre Boulevard.<\/p>\n
West Chester officials have repeatedly declined comment on whether they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve talked with Ikea representatives.<\/p>\n
Ikea is expected to boost the visibility and attractiveness of the Union Centre Boulevard area, which has seen more than $1 billion in commercial development since the 1997 completion of a new highway interchange.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be the crown jewel,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lang said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but it will definitely accelerate the development of Union Centre. A lot of people are going to want to come here because Ikea is here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
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