Kohl's Plans First Florida Store in Clermont

CLERMONT, FL-Kohl’s Corp., a 542-unit, mid-priced department store chain based in the Milwaukee suburb of Menomonee Falls, WI expects to break ground in 2004 on its first Florida location, retail brokers and industry consultants in a position to know tell GlobeSt.com.

The chain’s Florida debut is expected to be with an estimated 90,000-sf store at a commercial center next to the Spring Valley subdivision on US 27 in Lake County, about 20 miles west of Downtown Orlando. The Sembler Co. of St. Petersburg, FL is expected to develop the store site for Kohl’s, brokers following Sembler’s Spring Valley project, tell GlobeSt.com.

Kohl’s is also considering sites for additional new metro Orlando stores in Altamonte Springs, Winter Park and east Orange County, retail sources tell GlobeSt.com. Outside of Orlando, the Wisconsin retailer is looking a locations in Tampa and Jacksonville.