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…