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11/29/08
It looks like outside construction on the new Target store in Sun Prairie is pretty much finished. Target has not announced when the official opening will be but had earlier said that it would be in Spring or Summer of 2009.
9/1/08
Who would have thought that they could put that building up so quickly? Not me but I'm not that "up" on how buildings are constructed in the 21st century. I thought that there would be quite a wait after the structural beams went up. Had to wait for the bricklayers to put the walls up and that would take a long time. That was then and this is now. They bring the outside walls all pre made. They bring them in on flat bed trucks and just use a crane to lift them into place. They had that whole outside wall almost all up in about a week or less. Then the bricklayers came in and put on fancy trim work. The landscaping has been nicely done and there are even new trees and shrubs placed along Hoepker Road as it passes through what will be Prairie Lakes Shopping Center or some name to that effect. Looks like a nice addition to the city of Sun Prairie.
8/11/08
7/26/08
7/22/08
7/21/08
Construction is underway!
You can get an idea of the position of the new Target store by this picture. This was taken at the corner of Hoepker Road and Hwy. C looking at the NW corner. You can see the sturctures going up in the middle of the shot.
Click here to see more pictures of the Sun Prairie Target Store project.
August 16th 2007
Workmen have put up the plastic barriers to stop erosion around the property from Highway C and on the North side of Hoepker Road to the South side of their property where it butts up against the Providence Subdivision. Other workmen were seen on the East side of Hoepker drilling for something. Probably some kind of test.
Prairie Development, Ltd. is planning on building a Super Target on their property which is located on the Northwest corner of the intersection of Hoepker Road and Highway C, in the city of Sun Prairie.
Super Targets are designed for one stop shopping and offer a full grocery line including bakery, deli, meat and produce sections. A typical Super Target has annual revenues of about $61 million. A Super Target has just opened in Fitchburg, Wisconsin and cost $17 million. It is the second one in Wisconsin joining the Super Target in Eau Clair. A Super Target has also been proposed for Pewauke, Wisconsin.
The location is part of the Prairie Lakes development which is projected to include approximately 900,000 square feet of retail space and cover 105 acres of land bounded roughly by Highway C (or Grand Ave.) on the East, Blue Aster Blvd.on the North, and the Providence Subdivision on the West. The South side of the development will roughly go down close to Highway 151. The area in-between Providence and Prairie Lakes is to possibly include residential dwellings in the future.
Target is asking for the Plan Commission, on July 10th, 2007, to approve the 178,596 square foot building which will include the Target Department Store and the grocery store. The Super Target will be situated on about 16 acres of land. If approved by the Plan Commission, the request could come before the City Council as soon as July 17th, for final approval. If approved in a timely manner, the Super Target could open by Spring or Summer of 2008. The grocery store will certainly be welcomed by many of the nearby residents, although a new Copp's Store has just been opened in the last few months at the corner of Highway C and Hwy 19.
Plan Commission Meetings can be viewed live on Charter Cable, Channel 12, Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. when a meeting is scheduled. You can check Channel 12 schedules by clicking here.
From 7/10/07 Planning Commission Meeting:
A main entrances will be from Blue Aster Blvd. There will be sidewalks out to Hwy. C, Blue Aster and Legacy Way but no sidewalk down to Hoepker because of grade issues. There is quite a drop from the Target site to Hoepker Road and apparently sidewalks to a stair is not a possibility. The staff recommends breaking up the long extension of the building to the west. Possibly another element added to break the plane. There will be a screening wall on Blue Aster to block the loading and trash areas. Truck traffic will deliver and pickup from Blue Aster. Traffic studies were taken and found that the access on the proposed areas would not be more than the streets and intersection could handle. On Hoepker, in front of the store, there will be a right in and right out and a left in but no left out because of expected traffic conditions. It was reported that environmentally friendly lighting plans are being looked at.
Concern was expressed by one of the commissioners about "dark stores." A "dark store" is an empty or abandoned store. Would there be a buy back option for the city of Sun Prairie if the store goes dark? Target says that, if they do not build, they will sell the land but, once they build, the property is theirs. So, apparently, the city can just go pound nails if the store ever goes empty.
The Planning Commission Staff expressed their feeling that this will be a development that the City of Sun Prairie could be proud of and will be and attractive development The architecture is comparable to some of the better developments that they have seen elsewhere. The Target store sets the bar for other stores that might come into this development and the surrounding area.
The motion to approve the staff recommendations passed unanimously. It was mentioned that Target would like to start building later this year, possibly in the Fall.
Check back here every once in a while to see
pictures of the Super Target Store as building progresses.
The picture below shows the NW corner of Hwy C and Hoepker, looking North from Hwy. C. The telephone pole in the middle is right at the corner.
The picture below shows the NW corner of Hwy C and Hoepker,
looking NorthWest from Hwy. C.
The picture below shows the NW corner of Hwy C and Hoepker,
looking West from Hwy. C.
City of Sun Prairie
Press Release
June 29, 2007
Contact: Scott Kugler, Planning Director
(608) 825-1107
PLAN COMMISSION AGENDA SET FOR JULY 10
The agenda has been set for the Sun Prairie Plan Commission meeting for Tuesday, July 10. The meeting will be held in the Second Floor Council Chambers of the Sun Prairie Municipal Building, 300 E. Main Street, beginning at 7:00 pm. The following development applications will be discussed and potentially acted upon by the Commission:
A public hearing on a request by Prairie Development, Ltd. for approval of an Amendment of an Approved General Development Plan (PC07-1524) for “Prairie Lakes” to adjust the western boundary of the planned development to better accommodate future development. The boundary shift results in a 2,026 sf decrease in the overall planned development area for the portion of the project lying north of Hoepker Road.
A public meeting on a request by Prairie Development, Ltd. for approval of a Certified Survey Map to create two (2) commercial lots at the northwest corner of S. Grand Avenue (CTH C) and Hoepker Road. A public meeting on a request by Prairie Development, Ltd. for approval of a Precise Implementation Plan for a Super Target store on approximately 16 acres located at the northwest corner of S. Grand Avenue (CTH C) and Hoepker Road. A public hearing on a request by the City of Sun Prairie for approval of an Amendment of the
Official Zoning Ordinance (Title 17) to amend the City’s sign regulations to allow electronic message board signs to be approved through the special use permit process, rather than the conditional use permit process that is currently required for such signs.
A public meeting on a request by the City of Sun Prairie for approval of a resolution to rename a portion of O’Keeffe Avenue north of Capitol Drive to Cremer Drive. More information on these items can be obtained by contacting the City’s Planning Department at
825-1107.
From Wikipedia
SuperTarget is a chain of hypermarkets that are about 175,000 square ft. Like Target Greatland, SuperTarget features double entrances on one story stores; some also have between the double entrances a merchandise loading lane as a prominent feature of the building. The store logo often spells "Super" in green cursive, but recently, newer ones are signed in red block letters in the Helvetica font that the word "Target" uses. They carry everything a Target or a Target Greatland does as well as a grocery store. Many SuperTargets may also feature a Starbucks Coffee shop, a Pizza Hut Express, a Taco Bell Express,(which is currently being phased out at SuperTarget locations) Jamba Juice, a pharmacy, a portrait studio, a one-hour photo processing lab, an optical store, or a Wells Fargo Bank. Unlike many other hypermarkets in the United States (such as Wal-Mart Supercenters and Meijer), SuperTargets are not continuously open.
In the past, some SuperTargets featured an E*TRADE trading station instead of a Wells Fargo Bank. However, in June 2003, E*TRADE decided to remove all E*TRADE branches from their SuperTarget locations[39] without advance notice. This sudden move was not initiated by Target Corporation. Mitchell Caplan, E*TRADE's CEO, said that "We were not able to make it into a profitable distribution channel...[w]e're better off exiting." E*TRADE also sent a letter of notification to their customers informing them about this change.
The first SuperTarget opened in Omaha, Nebraska in 1995, and the second SuperTarget opened in Lawrence, Kansas, later that same year.[40] As of January 4, 2007, Target operated 182 SuperTarget stores in 21 U.S. states.