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Construction is set to begin Thursday for a Target store at the site of the former Cabrini-Green Housing Project on the Near North Side, according to Alderman Walter Burnett, Jr. (27th).
The store will employ approximately 200, including 75 public housing residents when it is completed in fall 2013.
Target acquired the 3.6-acre parcel in a land swap with the Chicago Housing Authority this year, according to spokeswoman Wendy Parks.
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The average Target store is 135,000 square feet, including about 100,000 square feet of selling space but a spokeswoman for Minneapolis-based Target Corp. declined to comment on the store’s size or how much the company paid for the property.
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