

Photo by PoPville flickr user Rukasu1

Thanks to Jonathan Padget for passing on to us last week: “Hear that, DC? WE’RE GETTING A TINY IKEA.”

Angele Robinson-Gaylord, President, US Property, IKEA Group, tells the #ICSCNYDM audience: “Target cities for IKEA’s new urban small-format Planning Studio after its debut in New York City this spring: Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and D.C.” @IKEAUSA #ICSCDiversity pic.twitter.com/rHHscjZab5 — ICSC (@ICSC) December 4, 2018

CityLab reported:

“For anyone who knows the furniture retailer’s massive blue-box megastores, this might come as a surprise. But what you’ll find at the Midtown outpost is something new: a “Planning Studio” with a much smaller footprint, where New Yorkers can get one-on-one advice before ordering items for delivery.”