You Don't Have To Be Rich, Just Smart (Enough To Be Lured Into Our Maze By $3 Rugs)

Ikea is planning a monstrous warehouse and distribution center near the port of Tacoma to handle incoming freight, indicating that the company is confident that every new condominium development built in Seattle requires forty or fifty Billy book and CD shelves from Asia. The first step is an 840,000+ square foot facility in unincorporated Pierce County which should be completed by 2008. Another 220,000 square feet will be added after that's completed. One hundred and fifty Pierce County residents will be hired to man the facility.

The center is to channel well-designed and cheaply-made particle board creations to the Renton store and a new location they're opening in Portland.

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By Dan in News on October 25, 2006 12:25 PM

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Well, it will generate lot of employment - in Asia as well as in the Tacoma neighborhood.

James Callan

It does seem like there's room for someone to be the middle ground between Ikea and places like Dania -- somewhere you can get a decent $300-$500 couch.

Dan

Ha, the switch from Ikea to Dania has nothing to do with being tired of Ikea. I'm tired as hell of Ikea, it doesn't change the fact that I can furnish an entire two-bedroom apartment at Ikea for the price of a stool at Dania.