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Target Picks Site for 1.3M-SF Distribution Center

MINNEAPOLIS-Construction will start this summer and finish in two years on a regional distribution center on a 143-acre site at the intersection of US Highway 75 and SW 57th Street in Topeka, KS.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on June 13, 2002

MINNEAPOLIS-Target Corp. says it will build a 1.3-million-sf regional distribution center on a 143-acre site at the intersection of US Highway 75 and SW 57th Street in Topeka, KS. Construction on the building will begin this summer and is expected to be completed in summer 2004, according to the discount retailer.

Hiring for the facility will begin in spring 2004, which will start out with 650 employees, then add several hundred more employees over the first five years of the facility’s operation.

The Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing, as well as others in the community, spent “some time” working with Target for some time on this project, says KansasLt. Gov. and Commerce Secretary Gary Sherrer.

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