Emeryville IKEA Celebrates 25 Years • The E'ville Eye News

A silo has exploded and caught fire at the Ikea factory in Hultsfred. This is the second time this has happened in just over a week.

Emeryville IKEA Celebrates 25 Years • The E'ville Eye News

If you quiz people in the greater Bay Area where Emeryville is, they’ll likely mention something about IKEA. And while locals may shudder at this notion, it’s irrefutable that the blue-and-yellow-themed Scandinavian furniture store is part of Emeryville’s modern identity and a symbol of the city’s economic resurgence that began to rapidly accelerate in the 1990s. If there’s anything more emblematic of Emeryville’s shift from a gritty, industrial…