Target in Hawai`i???

Now, all I need is an Ikea too and I am set!

Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Saturday, February 17, 2007

Target Corp., which is looking to expand to Hawai'i with as many as six new stores, has pulled out of a deal to locate an outlet in 'Ewa Beach.

But the nation's second-largest discount retailer is still interested in opening a store in the fast-growing Leeward O'ahu area, said Art Howard, president of Hawaiian Asset Management & Investment Corp.

Howard's company and San Francisco-based Bristol Group Inc. are developing the 260,000-square-foot Laulani Village retail complex in 'Ewa Beach. Howard said a deal to sell the 20-acre property to Target fell through last month.

He said his company is now in talks with other potential buyers, which he declined to identify.

Roger Lyons, a local real estate broker who represents Target, declined comment.

Target, a popular shopping destination for local residents traveling on the Mainland, announced last year that it was interested in expanding to Hawai'i.

Target told city lawmakers and local real estate executives that it was interested in as many as six locations in Hawai'i.