A Sprawling Culver City Space Will Soon Be Home To Ikea - Beritaja

L.A.’s Westside is yet getting its first Ikea outpost.

The furnishings institution known for its Swedish meatballs and blocky “Kallax” shelving units has recovered a location wrong the aged Helms Bakery analyzable successful Culver City.

The store, slated to unfastened this spring, will beryllium its 11th successful California and is the company’s first “city-center” shop successful Los Angeles.

It will inhabit a about 40,000-square-foot information of a batch formerly utilized by L.A. luxury furnishings retailer HD Buttercup, which went retired of business past year, said Wally Marks III, proprietor of the Helms complex.

Ikea chose to unfastened a location successful Culver City because residents “spend a important magnitude of clip commuting and are progressively impacted by affordability challenges,” spokesperson Briana Lehman said successful a statement.

“We’re bringing the IKEA acquisition person to wherever group live, work, socialize, and shop—just successful a smaller footprint,” Lehman said.

The Helms building was chosen because it is simply a historical Los Angeles destination known for its restaurants and location furnishings businesses, Lehman said.

The analyzable has different furnishings stores, including a Scandinavian Designs store, The Rug Warehouse and Room and Board.

The description is portion of Ikea’s strategy of opening smaller stores targeting municipality customers.

Unlike the larger suburban stores successful Burbank and Carson, this Ikea won’t person signature vibrant bluish exterior walls. The exterior of the beloved Art Deco building won’t change, Marks said.

There will, however, beryllium showrooms pinch fully-furnished location kitchens and bathrooms tailored for a section L.A. audience.

Meanwhile, dissimilar the mini 9,000-square-foot Ikea shop that opened successful Arcadia’s Santa Anita Mall successful 2024, the Culver City location will characteristic a nutrient court.

In 2023, Ikea opened an 85,000-square-foot location successful downtown San Francisco.

In 2025, Ikea U.S. reported $5.3 cardinal successful sales, including $1.9 cardinal successful e-commerce sales, according to a institution statement.

Ikea U.S. interim Chief Executive Rob Olson said successful a connection that the institution was capable to turn successful 2025 “despite a challenging outer environment.”

In 2026, the institution plans to “build connected this momentum, focusing connected continued finance successful the U.S.  to make IKEA much affordable, accessible and sustainable,” Olson said. The institution has group a extremity of opening 10 caller stores during its 2026 fiscal year, which began successful September.

The 11-acre Helms analyzable is the erstwhile location of the Helms bakery, celebrated for the food yellowish trucks that erstwhile zoomed crossed Southern California delivering caller breadstuff and for being an charismatic supplier for the 1932 Olympics – a favoritism still proudly displayed connected a rooftop sign.

The bakery unopen down successful 1969 because the laminitis did not want his institution to unionize, The Times erstwhile reported. The Marks family existent property patient bought the spot successful 1972 and turned it into a halfway for location furnishings and antiques.

A caller type of Helm’s Bakery opened wrong the Helms Design District successful November 2024 but closed successful December owed to lagging sales. That 14,000-square-foot batch has recovered its adjacent tenant, Marks said.

No other parking is being built for Ikea, but patrons could usage the existing Helms Bakery tons crossed Venice Boulevard, Marks said. The shop is simply a short locomotion from the Culver City ray obstruction position and autobus lines, he said.