SEQUIM — The saga over retail development on the city’s west end took another turn Thursday as logos from Target Corp. — appearing for the past two weeks on signs near a site planned for a regional shopping center — were covered up with yellow tape.
But that doesn’t mean the retailer has backpedaled on preliminary plans to come to town, according to the Arizona developer set to build a 395,000-square-foot regional shopping center on West Washington Street near River Road.
“We’re still moving forward on a deal with Target,” said Don Berry of AVB Development Partners, a Phoenix-based firm applying to construct a retail center anchored by The Home Depot home improvement warehouse.
Berry and a real estate executive from Target, the Minneapolis-based discount department chain, toured Sequim on Thursday.
“He had never been here before, so I showed him around,” Berry said.
“He liked what he saw.”
He might not have liked seeing his company’s logos on signs geared toward attracting other tenants to the Marketplace, though.
Berry said the executive recently replaced someone else, who had given him the go-ahead to include Target’s logo on signs near the site.
“It turns out he may have jumped the gun,” Berry said.
“I was told after the fact that it needs to go through the (company’s) next planning phase before they’ll allow the use of their logo.”
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News.
