Memphis, Tenn. — IKEA has officially broken ground on its future Memphis store, scheduled to open in fall 2016. It will be the Swedish home furnishings retailer’s first store in Tennessee.
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Fremont, Calif. — The 100th EVgo Freedom Station in California is now open and is the nation’s largest publicly-available multi-standard fast charging site. Located in the hottest electric vehicle (EV) adoption area of the country, the Lucky Fremont location features four 50kW DC Fast Chargers equipped with CHAdeMO and DC Fast Combo; the station is also pre-wired for as many as four more chargers, which can be added in just days as demand requires.
Houston — Mattress Firm Holding Corp., the nation’s largest specialty mattress retailer, has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests in HMK Mattress Holdings LLC, the holding company of Sleepy’s, for $780 million. Sleepy’s is the nation’s second largest specialty mattress retailer, with more than 1,050 stores in 17 states in the Northeast, New England the Mid-Atlantic and Illinois.