According to this article in the Star Tribune, Big Box Stores are fueling growth in the smaller stores that surround them.
This article quotes the owner of the Red Lion liquor store who claims that it’s the Cub Food that was recently built in the area, and not the two huge apartment buildings built and the nice Burnsville city park, that are fueling the increase in his business.
Yes, you’re going to do better when there are other businesses in the area (it used to be called a downtown) but it doesn’t require a fucking Big Box Store to happen. I wish that people would begin to realize that communities like Northfield have AMAZING downtown areas without two SuperTargets within three miles of each other.
I know, my words fall on deaf ears in the land of the national chain fed hellhole that Apple Valley’s City Council has pushed so tirelessly for.
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September 2nd, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I thought that a little numbers to explain why a second SuperTarget is being built in Apple Valley might help some. It is one of the top grossing stores in the country, usually fighting back and forth with Brooklyn, New York. Target starts to consider building a second store when gross sales per year equal 80 million dollars or more over a 5 year period. This store has had over 100 million dollars in sales over the past 4 years, and just keeps on growing. I know that Rosemount refused another big box store, and Farmington is so slow in growth, it would be another 10 years before they even have thought of something that large. So Apple Valley of course said yes.
I know this doesn’t help much in the whole arguement of things, but it does shed some light on the subject. Thanks for reading!
September 4th, 2007 at 10:01 am
It is one of the top grossing stores in the country, usually fighting back and forth with Brooklyn, New York. Target starts to consider building a second store when gross sales per year equal 80 million dollars or more over a 5 year period. This store has had over 100 million dollars in sales over the past 4 years, and just keeps on growing.
*shrug*, still doesn’t prove to me that they need another.
I know that Rosemount refused another big box store, and Farmington is so slow in growth, it would be another 10 years before they even have thought of something that large.
Rosemount is going about it the proper way (just like Northfield) and Apple Valley should have followed suit but instead they are sluts to the corporate whoring.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
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