Big news for Wisconsinites – Madison is getting an Ikea.
IKEA U.S. announced the plans for the new store Thursday, May 7. The popular furniture retailer said in a news release that the new store is scheduled to open in fall 2026, at Prairie Town Center, 215 Junction Road, on Madison’s far-west side.
“Opening a new location in Madison is part of our continued commitment to reaching customers where they are, making well-designed, affordable home furnishing solutions more accessible and convenient than ever before,” IKEA U.S. Interim CEO Rob Olson said in a statement.
The only Wisconsin IKEA store is in Oak Creek, at 7500 S. Ikea Way, which opened in 2018. Madison already has two IKEA Pick-up locations – places where customers can pick up their online purchases – at the University Book Store, 711 State St., and the University Book Store Distribution Center, 4509 W. Beltline Highway.
The Madison store will be a 54,000 square-foot space – smaller than the 291,000 square-foot building in Oak Creek – and will offer more than 5,000 products, around 3,000 of which will be available to take home immediately from the store. It will feature fully furnished room settings that showcase “‘local living solutions” designed specifically to reflect the Madison community, the news release said.
The new Madison store will also have an As-Is section, offering gently used products and discontinued items at a lower price. It will also have a Swedish Deli selling hot dogs, meatballs, falafel balls, cinnamon buns and more.
Based in Sweden, IKEA has more than 50 full stores in the United States, and hundreds more worldwide.
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: IKEA announces its second Wisconsin store is coming to Madison
Reporting by Kelli Arseneau, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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