Swedish home-furnishings retailer Ikea has made its second Colorado store official by submitting plans to the city and county of Broomfield.

Depending on how quickly Broomfield approves the plans, construction could begin as soon as spring 2018 with the store opening at the northwest corner of Interstate 25 and Colorado 7 by summer of 2019.

“We are hoping to receive all the city and county approval within the next six months,” Ikea spokesman Joseph Roth said. “We already own the land so we’re not waiting to close on that.”

The 400,000-square-foot proposed Ikea store and its 1,500 parking spaces would be built on 36 acres of the 123-acre parcel about 17-miles north of downtown Denver.

This would leave the majority of the land undeveloped and according to Roth, it’s going to stay that way until the store is complete.

“We currently have no plans for it (the land), but we had to buy the whole parcel,” he said. “Our number one priority whenever we purchase new land is opening the store. At some point we will sell the excess land, but we have other locations across the country with excess land.”

Companies hoping to nab a piece of the property in this rapidly growing corner of metro Denver will have to wait until Ikea gets a handle on normal operating routines for the store, including customer access to the store, and, perhaps, securing approval for expansion on either side of the building, Roth said.

The retailer expects to create 500 jobs during construction and to employ roughly 300 workers when the store opens.

Kevin Standbridge, Broomfield’s deputy manager, said an economic development agreement created when the property was slated to become a regional mall can transfer to Ikea, giving the retailer tax-increment financing for infrastructure improvements. This means that Ikea will be allowed to keep a portion of city sales taxes collected at the store until it is reimbursed for streets and other utility improvements on the property.

Ikea’s first Colorado store opened in Centennial in 2011.