Target unveils first GTA locations

Posted January 6, 2012 5:26 am.

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Shoppers who’ve been crossing the border to pick up deals at Target won’t have to wait much longer until the popular American discount chain opens in the GTA.

This week Target announced the first 24 stores it plans to open in Canada—14 of them in the GTA, and all of them in Ontario—by March or April 2013. Target plans to open 125 to 135 stores in Canada.

Hiring is scheduled to start in 2012 for each location, which will employ between 150 and 200 people.

Last January,Target bought the leasehold interests of 189 sites run by the Hudson’s Bay Company chain Zellers Inc. Target reportedly plans to spend about $10 million to remodel each facility.

Here’s a look at Target’s first GTA locations:

Ajax, Durham Centre
Aurora, Aurora Shopping Centre
Brampton, Shoppers World Brampton
Brampton, Trinity Common.
Burlington, Burlington Mall
Burlington, Millcroft Centre
Milton, Milton Mall Shopping Centre
Mississauga, Square One Shopping Centre
Newmarket, Upper Canada Mall
Toronto, Centrepoint Mall
Toronto, Cloverdale Mall
Toronto, East York Town Centre
Toronto, Shoppers World Danforth
Whitby, Taunton Road Power Centre

Here are the other 10 locations:

Cambridge, Cambridge Centre
Fergus, Gates of Fergus
Guelph, Stone Road Mall
Hamilton, Centre Mall
Kawartha Lakes, Lindsay Square Mall
London, Masonville Place
London Westmount, Westmount Shopping Centre
Orillia, Orillia Square Mall
Waterdown, Flamborough Power Centre
Windsor, Devonshire Mall

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