SEQUIM — Target may have its name on a sign for a proposed regional shopping center, but that doesn’t mean representatives of nationwide retailer have signed on the dotted line.
Two signs erected Thursday on the site where Sequim Village Marketplace is planned included the names of Target and The Home Depot as two occupants at the 395,000 square foot shopping center.
A Target Corp. representative said the sign isn’t a guarantee of tenancy.
“Target is very interested in Sequim,” said Brie Heath, a corporate spokeswoman in Minneapolis, said in a telephone interview.
“But there is no confirmation.”
Heath refused to say the real estate company representing AVB Development Partners might have jumped the gun in putting Target’s name on the sign as a tenant.
C. Don Barry, a partner in AVB, didn’t return phone calls seeking confirmation of Target’s involvement Thursday and Friday.
Real estate agents representing AVB also didn’t return phone calls.
Barry had earlier confirmed that The Home Depot, a nationwide home improvement center, would take the second largest building, 104,000 square feet, in the development.
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The rest of the story appears in Sunday’s Peninsula Daily News.