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Now I'm left wondering how they were able to build a large big-box store with a large parking lot in the middle of the densest city in the world?
Turns out it's 5 stories tall, with 3 floors dedicated to the store. The top 2 floors are the office (probably the national HQ) and the stockroom. There is an existing parking garage across the street, though loading your purchase into your car might pose another problem.
Hopefully the OP knows that in order to be the biggest in the world of anything, it simply needs to be bigger than everything else of that type. At times this means a place is truly huge and at other times it isn't that big, simply bigger than all the others of that type.
With that said, if you want something like Ikea to be a symbol of progress (as in the faith investors have in a particular market), this thread could work towards that goal.
People tend to not remember certain things. For example, what was the first place in the developing world to get an Ikea? Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Does anyone remembers that? Hardly.
Store location
Marina Way, Mall of Asia Complex
Brgy. 76 Zone 10, CBP-IA, 1300
Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines
From the look at the map, the store parking lot is located just across the entrance. There are also few additional parkings nearby.
You can pick up your merchandise at the designated loading zones in the MOA Square carpark.
Parking is available in the following areas:
MOA Square (where the IKEA building is located)
SMX Convention Center
MAAX Building
SM Mall of Asia South Parking (right across the IKEA building)
Hopefully the OP knows that in order to be the biggest in the world of anything, it simply needs to be bigger than everything else of that type. At times this means a place is truly huge and at other times it isn't that big, simply bigger than all the others of that type.
With that said, if you want something like Ikea to be a symbol of progress (as in the faith investors have in a particular market), this thread could work towards that goal.
People tend to not remember certain things. For example, what was the first place in the developing world to get an Ikea? Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Does anyone remembers that? Hardly.
Where in Manila will this new Ikea be located?
Glad fellow Filipinos are promoting the premiere of IKEA on YouTube. Surprised nobody created a thread here when it opened a month ago.
It's well-known on here that Manila is the densest city in the world. Obviously the cookie-cutter 1-2 story big-box store with large parking lot was not going to fit in the middle of Manila. Perhaps that will be done in the subsequent stores built in the "subdivisions" of the Mega Manila suburbs, Cebu and the other provincial major cities. (The city format might leave a mistaken first impression on Filipinos who have never been to a typical IKEA before.)
Schlepping those slightly heavy, flat boxes back to your car will be much harder in the city IKEA garages (unless the elevators have been modified to accommodate platform trucks). Also Central Manila is heavily dependent on public transportation, so it was a surprise to locate the first store there.
To those not familiar with Manila, the Pasay City IKEA is located inside the sprawling Mall of Asia complex at the south terminus of the infamous EDSA highway, where it intersects with the scenic bayside Roxas Boulevard. NAIA (MNL airport) is to the south, on the block diagonally across from the mall.
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We need to simultaneously also save the entire range of native Independent owned Furniture Stores throughout Worlwide operations in lots of various other countries and regions. Can society fulfill this quite successfully while still getting a few items from Ikea? I believe, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...KEA_stores.svg
Philippines is indeed one of those that have Ikea. I am not surprised if the ocurrence with Chain stores is similar to the food. Kind of not resourceful to what the islands can ultimately have. Copy Japan, and Taiwan original cuisine.
Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Oman, Belarus, Panama, Argentina, Nepal, Iran, Peru don't have any Ikeas. Including not even in the adjacent future.
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