Ikea to open store at I-25, Highway 7 in Broomfield

BROOMFIELD — Swedish home-furnishings retailer Ikea has identified a site in Broomfield for its second metro Denver store, the company announced Thursday.

According to a media release issued by the company’s U.S. headquarters in Conshohocken, Pa., Ikea has identified a 123-acre site on the northwest corner of Interstate 25 and Colorado Highway 7, and the city and county of Broomfield has begun the process of incorporating the retailer into a master-planned regional retail center there.

Ikea Development LLC is purchasing the site from Northlands Colorado LLC, an entity of Alberta Development Partners, the Greenwood Village-based developer that oversaw the redevelopment of Foothills Mall…