Article: IKEA Continues On Pace With U.S. Expansion as Demolition Begins in Metro Detroit at Site of Future Canton Township Store.

Summer 2006 opening of IKEA Canton to bring unique shopping experience to Michigan

CANTON, Mich., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- With company representatives, township officials and community leaders on-hand, IKEA, the world's leading home furnishings retailer, today began demolition of a former Super Kmart store that will give way to a future IKEA store, opening Summer 2006 in Canton Township. The 311,000 square-foot future IKEA Canton will become the 28th IKEA store in the U.S., and fourth in the Upper Midwest, joining stores in: Schaumburg, IL (opened 1998); Bloomington, MN (opened 2004); and in Bolingbrook, IL (opening this Fall).

Under construction on 21 acres at the ...

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