GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—Contractors have been hired for the second IKEA Dallas-Fort Worth-area store. Pending remaining permits, this progress allows the project to continue on track for site work to commence, with groundbreaking next month and a store opening in fall 2017.

IKEA has chosen MYCON General Contractors to serve as construction manager for the IKEA Grand Prairie site work and store development project. MYCON is a family-owned commercial contractor based in Dallas specializing in ground-up construction services for the retail, industrial, office and healthcare markets in Texas and surrounding areas.

“We are thrilled with the progress of a second Dallas-Fort Worth store,” Joseph Roth, public affairs manager of IKEA, tells GlobeSt.com. “Our first store opened 11 years ago and it's a large metropolitan area that can support another store.”

Other firms assisting with this project are real estate brokerage Segovia Retail Group for site selection support, Jackson Walker for local land use counsel, Winkelmann and Associates for civil engineering, Lee Engineering for traffic and transportation planning, KJWW Engineering Consultants for structural, Terracon for geotechnical services, ACIES Engineering for mechanical, electrical and plumbing design; and GreenbergFarrow as project architect.

Located approximately 14 miles west of downtown Dallas and 18 miles east of downtown Fort Worth, the 290,000-square-foot future IKEA Grand Prairie and its 1,100 parking spaces will be built on 30 acres along the eastern side of State Highway 161 and Mayfield Road, north of Interstate 20. The additional 15 acres of land contiguous to the store eventually could be developed to accommodate opportunities for ancillary commercial or retail uses.

Store plans reflect the same unique architectural design for which IKEA stores are known worldwide. IKEA also is evaluating potential on-site power generation to complement its current US renewable energy presence at nearly 90% of its US locations.

“With a contractor onboard, plans can proceed towards opening the future IKEA Grand Prairie,” said Lars Petersson, IKEA US president. “This store will provide a more convenient IKEA shopping experience for current and potential customers throughout central and western parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex who maybe live too far from IKEA Frisco.”

The Grand Prairie store will increase the Swedish retailer's presence in Texas. Other IKEA stores include IKEA Frisco, IKEA Houston and IKEA Round Rock.

In addition to the more than 500 jobs that are expected to be created during the construction phase, more than 300 coworkers will join the IKEA family when the new store opens. IKEA Grand Prairie also will provide significant annual sales and property tax revenue for local governments and schools.

The IKEA in Grand Prairie will feature nearly 10,000 exclusively designed items, 50 inspirational room-settings, three model home interiors, a supervised children's play area and a 450-seat restaurant serving Swedish specialties such as meatballs with lingonberries as well as American dishes. Since its 1943 founding in Sweden, IKEA has offered home furnishings of good design and function at low prices.

The Grand Prairie store will increase the Swedish retailer's presence in Texas. Other IKEA stores include IKEA Frisco, IKEA Houston and IKEA Round Rock.

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