Do you want a Target store in your community? Do you have 800,000 residents... (Lexington: house, income)

[kentuckydad95]

...within an 80-mile radius of where it is to be located? I know some of my fellow Kentuckians would like a Target to be located in their city. Places like Somerset, Ashland, Paducah, Hopkinsville, etc. If you had hope of ever getting a Target, your dreams have been dashed. At least in Paducah anyway. The city has been told that Target Corporation is passing up 21 acres of prime land that was set aside specifically for a new store to be built. Now it has been reported that a large chain grocery store will be built on the 21 acres in the Strawberry Hill area. Target basically came out and said that Paducah was to small. 500,000 population within a 60-mile radius of Paducah was apparently not good enough, neither was the fact that Paducah/McCracken County is around 4th in the state of Kentucky in retail sales. Yes, I am bitter. I love Target!!! What a huge blunder.

[MurphyPl1]

What's the income level? Target has gotten pretty focused on where they want their stores and that is one of their measures.

Was the city giving them the land or just zoning it for the Target? Around here (Dallas) incentives make the difference on where companies move.

[kentuckydad95]

I am not sure about the incentives, but I am sure the city of Paducah would give them something. They are ALWAYS giving companies incentives to locate there. Going by the US census figures in 2000, the median household income in Kentucky was $33,672. In 2000, the median household income in Paducah/McCracken County was $35,093.

[bluegrassgirl]

dad - I can understand your disappointment. I LOVE Target. We have two in Lexington with one being about three minutes from my house. I can also understand your confusion about why they wouldn't want to build one in Paducah. Sounds odd to me actually. I guess I can't begin to imagine what determines where they build, but I have certainly been to Targets in smaller areas than Paducah.

[BLS2753]

Old thread I know, but 60 miles from Paducah up I-24, Marion IL has a Target. That area is no more populated than the Paducah area.

Could be a change is strategy for Target, as the Marion store is about 10 years old.

[Future Trooper]

well here we have Super Targets and Wal-Marts galore! in the metro area probably about 30 or so just in my county 7 Superstores( my county is the 24th richest county in the nation)

[Future Trooper]

plus where i live there is about 2,000,000 million people within 90km of my house

[EclecticEars]

Here in central Kentucky, all we have are two Targets in Lexington, (I think) four in Louisville and one in Elizabethtown.

It would sure be nice if Target built stores in Oldham County near Louisville and one of the surrounding counties around Lexington (particularly Madison, Scott, or Jessamine.) As fast as these counties are growing, I'm sure they'll all have Target stores someday. But, for Paducah to not land a store is nothing short of surprising. Wow...if Marion, IL, Alcoa, TN, and Dalton, GA can have one, why can't Paducah?

[dixiegirl7]

We have a Target in Bowling Green and two Super Walmarts. Wish we had a Super Target. I am really surprised Paducah doesn't have Target. I also wish we could get a Publix.

[InLondon]

I don't really like Target and can't figure out why it's such a popular store. It feels like K Mart to me. I prefer Meijer or Kroger.

If Bowling Green has a Target and Paducah doesn't that's probably because BG is quite a bit larger than Paducah. Warren County - 104,023 and McCracken County - 64,765.