Ikea Plans to Open Culver City Location in 2026

Ikea is growing its presence in Los Angeles with a new location in Culver City.

The Swedish furniture giant is planning to open its first city-center store in the Los Angeles area at 3225 Helms Avenue in Culver City’s Helms Design District later this year, L.A. Business First and the Desert Sun reported.

It will be Ikea’s 10th outpost in Southern California. The company runs full-sized Ikea locations in Burbank, Carson, Costa Mesa and Covina, as well as one small-format store in Arcadia and plan-and-order points with pickup in Santa Monica, Thousand Oaks and Ontario. Ikea’s city-center stores comprise showroom-like outposts rather than the company’s typical suburban warehouse sites, allowing urban customers to explore products in person and have them delivered to their homes.

The Culver City Ikea is planned to span approximately 38,050 square feet and feature a central planning area and the chain’s signature food court. Ikea is planning to open 10 new stores across the country this year, including locations in Chicago; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Fort Collins, Colorado.

Ikea first announced its Culver City plans in its fiscal year 2025 annual summary, per L.A. Business First. Last fiscal year, the company reported $5.3 billion in total sales, including $1.9 billion in e-commerce, despite “challenging external factors including increased inflation and waning consumer confidence.” Ikea stores saw nearly 61 million guests, with more than 457 million online visitors.

The company in recent years has been sinking more money into expansion efforts across the country. In 2023, Ingka Group, the largest owner and operator of Ikea stores, announced a nearly $2.2 billion investment to open more than a dozen new outposts. Ikea has 12 franchisees overall.

Ingka Group is also acquiring a portfolio of malls from coast to coast with plans to anchor those retail centers with Ikea stores. The owner and operator hopes to position the new sites as go-to destinations for customers with eateries, children’s play areas and new WeWork-style spaces as part of its Hej! Workshop coworking brand. In 2024, Ingka Group’s Ingka Centres finished the transformation of a six-story property in San Francisco into the city’s first Ikea store, outfitted with a 46,000-square-foot Hej! Workshop and a multilevel food hall called Saluhall.

— Chris Malone Méndez