“Ikea has added hundreds of parking spaces to its Red Hook store in advance of the hotly anticipated opening on Wednesday, June 18, which is expected to draw a cavalcade of shoppers that will continue for months.”

…read the rest…

I hereby declare Red Hook “gentrified” with regard, as reported above, that the new Ikea will open June 18th, 2008.

I have written elsewhere on nyc.locationscout.us about the changing face of Red Hook and other areas in the New York metro. (Take a peak at The Brooklyn Paper’s photo that accompanies the story above – also here is a Google Images search result for “Ikea Red Hook”. My own post mentioned above, Final Days, has photos of the Ikea property when it was the New York Shipyard.

Arguably, the Shipyard was more fertile ground for location scouts, no?

…alas, one finds, with the wisdom of age, that the only thing constant in life is change. I’ve tried to learn to accept this and grow from the knowledge.

• Google News search “Ikea Red Hook”

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