IKEA U.S. announced plans for its third New York location at Destiny USA in Syracuse on the company's website on July 7. From Elmira, the drive to the new Syracuse store will take about 1 hour, 50 minutes. That's about half the estimated travel time to the IKEA in Paramus, NJ, the closest existing store.

IKEA has announced they will be opening a store in Syracuse, the first IKEA in Upstate New York. Set to open this fall, the store is a nearly 70,000 square-foot space that has more than 3,000 products,