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The former IKEA store in Coventry. Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images. The UK city of Coventry plans to open an enormous new arts center in a former IKEA store. The seven-story building, which has more than 580,000 square feet of floor space, will become among the biggest cultural hubs in the world. The Coventry city council acquired the massive building, which was vacated by the Swedish furniture giant last February, after officials voted in favor of plans to convert it into a new national collections center. The council did not say how much it paid for the site, but it p...

Ikea closed its Coventry store last year creating "once in a lifetime opportunity" for city council.

Coventry's Ikea building could be transformed into huge arts hub The council plans to buy the landmark building Designs for the Ikea building Never miss another story from Coventry and Warwickshire by subscribing to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Multi-million pound plans to transform the old IKEA buil...