SEQUIM — Legal scrapping over a regional shopping center on the city’s west side has led one large retailer to stall plans to open a store.
Target Stores has decided not to build a department store in the first construction phase of Sequim Village Marketplace, an outdoor shopping center proposed on 42 acres near River Road and West Washington Street.
Target had signed a letter of intent with AVB Development Partners to build in the center, which will still be anchored by a Home Depot home improvement warehouse, said Don Berry, a partner with Arizona-based AVB.
But delays in the center’s construction, caused by a land-use appeal now being weighed by a Clallam County Superior Court judge, made the company skittish, Berry said Friday.
“They’re not part of the plans right now,” Berry said.