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IKEA delays opening of Loulé store

ikeaThe investment will still go ahead but an IKEA spokesman today confirmed that due to the scale of its complex project the store and associated shopping centre now will open in 2015, not in 2014 as originally planned.

The investment of €200 million and the goal to create 3,000 jobs is the same but the Swedish multinational is still in talks with the newly elected board of Loulé council and has had to move the opening date, “Recruitment will begin, probably in late 2014, but this still depends on the progress of the work," commented the IKEA spokesman.

The store is but one part of the development as a shopping centre and other commercial space is planned.  "We have different methods for different projects. In some cases everything has all opened at the same time but in others the store opened first and the commercial centre a few months later," the source said.

"When we start work, we will have a better idea of timings” revealed IKEA Portugal, which reaffirmed that “the store in Loulé is a priority for the group."

The initiative was given the go ahead almost a year ago by Loulé council which is to gain by some improvements to a local school and various road connections that would have to be built anyway to allow access to the store.

Complaints over the re-designation of some ecological land came to nothing so the only thing holding back the project is bureaucracy.

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+4 #5 billyo 2015-02-24 14:16
Just hurry up and open the store.... we cant wait!!!
+3 #4 Alfredo 2014-11-12 20:19
Quoting Hobie:
Blackmailing Ikea to pay for local pork projects is pathetic. Let the company build its store in peace. Nothing more.


you have miss spelt it ...park instead of pork...ha...ha...ha...
+12 #3 Hobie 2014-02-03 13:13
Blackmailing Ikea to pay for local pork projects is pathetic. Let the company build its store in peace. Nothing more.
+14 #2 Anna 2014-01-30 13:00
Bureaucracy is a bitch so true but let's not forget corruption.... So many mouths to feed ..
+23 #1 Mike Towl 2014-01-30 07:53
Is "Bureaucracy" Portuguese for "a bigger bung?"

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