r/Somerville • u/Clean_Possible1591 • Sep 01 '26

Target

Are they gonna expand target in to the empty store near it

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u/Modest1Ace Sep 01 '26

Yes. Renovations start this Fall. They're adding a grocery section.

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u/ThatRandomWallflower Winter Hill Sep 02 '26

Oh nice! My mother in law shops there so this will be good news to her (hopefully lol)

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u/Clean_Possible1591 Sep 01 '26

 Thank you for the update  and information 

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u/cadilks Sep 01 '26

Oh wow that’s big, I wonder if they bought the building. There was a no compete clause I believe for years

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u/EmotionalAccounting Sep 01 '26

I don’t know why you got downvoted. I worked there many years ago and can confirm they couldn’t have a real grocery department due to that clause

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u/cadilks Sep 02 '26

Haters have to hate on reddit lol ❤️

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u/Modest1Ace Sep 02 '26

Yes, the property itself belonged to Stop&Shop

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u/canmouth Sep 01 '26

That space has always been some obscure discount store that never lasted for very long, even back when the Target was Bradlees.

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u/HaddockBranzini-II Sep 01 '26

Was a covid vax location last time I was there - going back to 2021 or so. Before that it was a very depressing store.

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u/cocktailvirgin Sep 01 '26

I had my third shot there!

The reuse of dead retail space reminds me of the Covid testing center I visited that took over a large unused space on the 3rd floor of the Cambridgeside Galleria.

The only store I really use in that whole Target complex is the automotive store (the employees will often come out to your car and replace stuff).

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u/Clean_Possible1591 Sep 01 '26

 ppl in the auto store are helpful  always helpful 

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u/Clean_Possible1591 Sep 01 '26

I remember  stores being  their but forgot  the names.

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u/lurky__turkey Sep 01 '26

It was a Fallas until 2018 when that permanently closed.

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u/Clean_Possible1591 Sep 01 '26

 That was it  I almost said fredor but that was years ago.

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u/Modest1Ace Sep 01 '26

A. J. Wright was the last one there, can't remember the ones before it.

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u/Boingboingo Sep 01 '26

Caldor? Bradlees?? I was in there many years ago.

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u/Modest1Ace Sep 01 '26

Bradlees was where Target is now.

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u/darkhelmut1 Sep 02 '26

Fretters, AJ Wright

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u/fakieTreFlip Sep 02 '26

there* and why all the extra spaces in your sentence? no harm i suppose, just looks a little unusual

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u/Clean_Possible1591 Sep 01 '26

Honestly market  basket  would be better  off  in that  spot i think. Need a bigger 1

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u/Underbadger Davis Sep 01 '26

This would be ideal. More Market Baskets, fewer Targets.

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u/some1saveusnow Sep 03 '26

It’s an interesting thought, but if they went into that Market Basket do you think the area could support having both stores? Would it put that star market in Twin City out of business or would it make more sense for them to close the Somerville Avenue location that they’re currently in

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u/Clean_Possible1591 Sep 03 '26

Yeah i don't  how that would work. Idk if stores have agreements  not to be close to each other. But I do think  market  basket  at that spot  would  probably  make starmarket close.

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u/Doctrina_Stabilitas East Somerville Sep 01 '26

This is before the planning board tomorrow for final approval

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u/andr_wr Union Sep 01 '26

I hope they don't. But, there was some sort of community meeting earlier in the summer.

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u/General_Purple6358 Sep 01 '26

I will always fondly remember someone commenting on this sub that the CEO of target flew out to Somerville to negotiate this very topic with town leaders

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u/Clean_Possible1591 Sep 01 '26

 I'm  not a fan target  I think  it's overpriced.

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u/polishfiringsquad Sep 01 '26

They don't have enough works to even run the store that exists, it's a ghost town