A new Ikea store is set to open in the Houston area this week.
The Swedish affordable home furnishings chain will open at 19801 Gulf Freeway in Webster on Friday, according to a press release. The 93,000-square-foot store is sited within the Center at Baybrook, a retail complex just off of Interstate 45 near the NASA Johnson Space Center.
The location will be Ikea’s second Houston-area store and its tenth in Texas as the company expands across the state, Ikea’s interim CEO Rob Olson said in a statement. It is significantly smaller than the only other Ikea store in the area, a roughly 300,000-square-foot store at 7810 Katy Freeway, off of Interstate 10 and just west of Interstate 610.
Ikea Webster is expected to open its doors at 9:30 a.m. on Friday for a grand opening celebration the public can attend, the company said. Its regular hours will be 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. every day except for Sunday, when it will operate from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
In addition to furnished showrooms, Ikea Webster contains a Swedish food court and an as-is section with discounted, gently-used products, according to the company. Ikea Webster is located beside sporting goods discount store Going Going Gone! and opposite a Hobby Lobby, according to a leasing brochure for the retail complex.