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GREGG TWP., PA-Target Corp. has selected a 166-acre parcel in Great Stream Commons for a 1.6-million-sf distribution center. It will break ground next year, and construction is expected to take two years.

The location is within a 670-acre park on US Route 15 near Interstate 80, which includes 444 acres of shovel-ready manufacturing and warehouse land. Stephen Hall, president of Union County Industrial Development Corp., which owns the land, tells GlobeSt.com his organization has been working on obtaining this commitment for the past 20 months, and it was in competition with sites in New York State and New Jersey.

While Hall declined to disclose what the Minneapolis-based retailer paid for the site, he says, "the range for prime industrial land [in the park] with all utilities and infrastructure, is between $60,000 and $100,000 an acre," and stresses, "that does not necessarily mean that is what Target paid." Smaller parcels in the commons have been sold, "but this is the big one," Hall says. The Commons, which is also zoned for up to 187 residential units and 170 acres of open green space is in the early stages of development.