EDMONTON – Tents, warming fires and a giant snowflake created by a well-known British artist took over Edmonton’s Churchill Square on a chilly Saturday.
It wasn’t the city’s latest winter festival but the Edmonton stop of a cross-country marketing blitz by Target Canada, which will open its first six stores in Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park starting in the spring. The U.S.-based retailer is opening 124 stores across the country.
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Target Corp. won’t open its Red Deer store until spring, but the retail giant is already having an impact on the local economy.
The City of Red Deer issued a building permit last month for $7.1 million worth of renovations to the former Zellers premises in Bower Place Shopping Centre. PCL Construction has been preparing the site for Target since mid-November, when Zellers ceased operations there.
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CALGARY — Target Canada will open its massive 1.3 million-square-foot distribution centre in Rocky View County, in the Balzac area, in January and will employ hundreds of workers as the facility will service the company’s stores in Western Canada, the Herald has learned.
Colin Yankee, senior director for supply chain logistics for Target Canada, said the facility is located between Stoney Trail on the south and Highway 566 on the north on High Plains Boulevard, just east of the CrossIron Mills shopping centre.
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Customers looking for the buzz of a good deal in the new St. Albert Target store next year can also look forward to a buzz of a different kind.
Target — which has bought up more than 100 Zellers locations in Canada, including the one in St. Albert Centre — has announced that they have reached an agreement with Starbucks Coffee to open Starbucks licensed stores in the majority of the 125 to 135 Canadian stores they will be opening across the country.
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