The First Sneak Peak Inside The New Tampa IKEA Store ...more

March 17, 2009

Ikea will open its Ybor City store in May, company officials announced last week. ...more

March 13, 2009

Ikea will open its Ybor City store in May, company officials announced Thursday. For those who make travel plans based on such things, the 353,000-square-foot store on Adamo Drive will open at 9 a.m. May 6, according to a company statement. ...more

March 6, 2009

Ikea is coming. Lock up your wives and daughters. ...more

March 5, 2009

The blue paint is dry on the outside, the drywall is going up inside and IKEA is set to begin recruiting employees next month. On Tuesday, IKEA public affairs director Joseph Roth said the company's new store on Adamo Drive has already finished interviews for 50 new management positions. ...more

December 10, 2008

TAMPA The long-awaited opening of the IKEA store moved forward today with a groundbreaking in which city officials and IKEA executives glad-handed and back-slapped one another, all the while marveling at what a wonderful fit Tampa is for the Swedish furniture store. ...more

June 4, 2008

Crate & Barrel, the contemporary home goods and furniture store, will open its first Tampa area store at International Plaza in spring 2009, a company spokeswoman said Friday. ...more

February 8, 2008

If developer Michael J. Scarfia Jr. achieves his dream, residences, stores and a hotel could transform an area filled with the gritty ship industry in the shadow of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway. ...more

November 21, 2007

Dianna Felch drove from Lakeland and arrived about 11 p.m. Sunday in Orlando. She slept in her van in a shopping center parking lot, then spent the next 48 hours waiting to be the first customer through the doors. Of what? Of Ikea. ...more

November 15, 2007