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Polo Park Owner to Buy Former St. James Target

Polo Park Owner to Buy Former St. James Target

The owner of Polo Park Shopping Centre is purchasing Winnipeg's largest former Target store. Cadillac Fairview will buy the building and adjacent land in St. James after the retailer's recent pullout from the Canadian market. The building was constructed only two...

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Walmart Buys Former Winnipeg Target in Southdale

Walmart Buys Former Winnipeg Target in Southdale

Walmart has gone shopping and picked up a former Winnipeg Target store. Walmart Canada will take over the former Southdale Centre Target location as part of a $165 million deal to acquire the leases for 13 former Targets across Canada. "The 13 stores acquired are well...

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Canadian Tire Buys Former Target at Grant Park

Canadian Tire Buys Former Target at Grant Park

WINNIPEG -- Canadian Tire has bought up the lease to the former Target store at Grant Park Shopping Centre. The retailer said it has purchased 12 leases, formerly held by Target Canada, for $17.7 million. "We're always on the lookout for great opportunities. We've...

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What Will Fill Canada’s Target Void?

What Will Fill Canada’s Target Void?

By Roger Currie Canadians will soon have one less choice when it comes to shopping, and some of the remaining choices look shaky as well. Almost none of them are owned in this country. Over the past two years, the American retailer Target opened 133 stores in Canada,...

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Target Expanding in All 10 Provinces This Year

Target will continue its push into Canada this year by adding nine more locations to the 124 stores it already operates nationwide. The majority of the new stores will open in Ontario, with single store additions planned for Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and B.C. In...

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Target’s Grant Park Store to Open November 13

Target is set to open another batch of its Canadian stores months after first debuting north of the border. Grant Park Shopping Centre's long-awaited Target will open to the public on November 13 -- the last of the Winnipeg stores to open. Thirty other Canadian...

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Two Target Stores to Open Tuesday

Shoppers, on your marks. Two Target stores are set to open their doors at 8 a.m. on May 7, and they’re expecting a rush. “If we can have a large turn out, you won’t hear us complaining at all,” said Derek Jenkins, vice-president of external relations for Target...

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Walmart Canada Rapidly Expanding as Target Arrives

By Brian Schultz Walmart Canada is rapidly expanding its presence in Canada as Target prepares to enter the marketplace in March. The retailer's expansion will add 1.4 million square feet of space and 37 supercentres at a cost of $450 million. The expansion will take...

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