TARGET

Target is a store near and dear to Minnesotans, and now the country.  The first Target store opened on May 1, 1962 on Snelling Avenue near County Road B in Roseville. That store has since been demolished and rebuilt. The third store was in Duluth, and the fourth in Denver.
Currently there are over 1,200 Target stores in 47 states. Target has become so successful that the venerable Dayton-Hudson Corporation changed its name to the Target Corporation in 2000.

Here are some factoids about our two Target Stores:

HIGHWAY 7

The Dayton-Hudson Corporation opened its second-ever Target store at 8900 Highway 7 in St Louis Park in the fall of 1962. The 32-acre tract was part of 220 acres that belonged to Frank B. Hart in 1926.  Dayton-Hudson purchased the property (through Calhoun Realty) from G.F. Lohman, who may have acquired it in 1929. 

In the beginning, the store had a grocery store inside, owned and operated by Applebaum Food Markets, St. Paul.

This historic Target was demolished in 2006, making way for a SuperTarget.  Will we lose our designation T-2?


2006
 

HIGHWAY 100

Park's second Target was built on a site that had been owned by the Baston family and Hedberg-Friedheim.  The store was built in 1986, and has the address 3601 Highway 100, although access is from Park Center Blvd.

 

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