A new Ikea\u00a0store is set to open in the Houston area this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Swedish affordable home furnishings chain will open at 19801 Gulf Freeway in\u00a0Webster on Friday, according to a press release<\/a>. The 93,000-square-foot store<\/a> is sited within the Center at Baybrook, a retail complex just off of Interstate 45 near the NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/p>\n 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\u00a0store in the area, a roughly 300,000-square-foot store at 7810 Katy Freeway, off of Interstate 10 and just west of Interstate 610.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Ikea\u00a0store is set to open in the Houston area this week.\u00a0 The Swedish affordable home furnishings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-349404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}