Ikea, the furniture store of Swedish origin, announced that on April 8 it will open its first store in the country in the Venustiano Carranza mayor's office, in Mexico City. .

The store will have an area of 23,500 square meters distributed over three floors.

Initially, it will store 5,300 items of the 7,300 of its total portfolio; around 250 were manufactured in Mexico, which will represent between 8 and 10% of its total sales.

The concept will have a restaurant with capacity for 655 people and a market to buy more than 150 products of Swedish origin: from meat balls and hot dogs, to vegetarian and vegan products.

In January, IKEA announced a second branch for the first half of 2022: Ikea Puebla, in the Vía San Ángel Shopping Center, with 11,500 square meters and a restaurant for 380 diners.

Ikea currently has an international portfolio of 422 stores in 50 countries.

The store will be located inside the Encuentro Oceanía shopping center, at number 355 Avenida del Peñón in the Moctezuma neighborhood, in the 2nd Section.

Recently, the capital's Congress approved the Vallejo 2020-2050 Partial Urban Development Program, which proposes a series of projects and strategic actions aimed at taking advantage of the potential of the polygon located in the mayor's office of Azcapotzalco to generate the most important industrial cluster in the metropolitan area. of the Valley of Mexico and improve the living conditions of its population.

According to the Solili platform, Vallejo has an inventory of 641 thousand 509 square meters of which it has 91 thousand 393 square meters vacancies.

Until March 2021, the average monthly rental price in this industrial corridor in Mexico City is $ 6.94.