What does Cincinnati have that Indianapolis doesn ?
An IKEA. IKEA recently opened its 34th location in West Chester Township, its final one in the Midwest “for the time being”, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal. Even having 25,000 central Indiana residents in the IKEA customer database wasn’t enough to attract a store to the state’s capital and largest city. Instead, it was the 14 to 15 million residents within a two-hour drive of Cincinnati and West Chester Township’s pro-development attitude that helped lure the store – without the benefit of tax breaks. “If people in Indianapolis want to go to IKEA, they’ll have to go to Cincinnati,” says Jeb Conrad, executive director of Indianapolis Economic Development Inc. “Obviously, that moves us way down on the list of future expansion sites.” Read the full article here.
