First Southeast IKEA Opens On Atlanta Brownfield

Atlantic Station, a 138-acre brownfield redevelopment in Atlanta, celebrated the grand opening of the Southeast’s first IKEA store on June 29. The new Atlanta store will be the third-largest IKEA store in North America. It takes up 15 acres of land and has 366,000 square feet of retail space.

A distinctive aspect of this first IKEA urban store is the two-level parking for 1,597 cars underneath, as opposed to a traditional massive surface parking lot. Approximately 500 people work at the store.

“What is unique about this IKEA store is that we have never been in an urban downtown, midtown environment before,” store manager Lynda Mee told The Story, an Atlanta neighborhood newspaper. “We have always been outside of the downtown areas in the suburbs. So this is very exciting for us to be involved in this kind of a project.”

The former steel mill is being transformed into a city-within-a-city and will feature 6 million square feet of office space and more than 3,000 residential units. Retail, entertainment, hotels and park space will round out the development.

 

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