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The store is getting architect John Hobbs to build huge sculptures of local landmarks like the Empire State building and the Brooklyn Bridge out of Ikea cardboard boxes; those will be unveiled outside of the store on Beard Street on opening day.



The 346,000-square-foot IKEA Brooklyn will be the fourth IKEA store in the New York-New Jersey area, 35th in the U.S., and is located on 22 acres along the Erie Basin waterfront in Red Hook, south of the BQE/Gowanus Expressway and southeast of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The store – with views of lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty – will employ more than 500 coworkers and will feature 10,000 exclusively-designed items, a 450-seat IKEA Restaurant, 6.5 acres of waterfront esplanade, a supervised children’s play area, and approximately 1,400 parking spaces. Other IKEA stores in the area are in: Elizabeth, NJ; Hicksville, NY; and Paramus, NJ.