Citizens Sue City Over Target
At what was supposed to be a routine meeting of the Northfield, MN City Council regarding a Target development, public officials were caught up short
At what was supposed to be a routine meeting of the Northfield, MN City Council regarding a Target development, public officials were caught up short
You read recently in “newflash” that the residents of Northfield, MN narrowly voted to OK a giant Target supercenter on the outskirts of town. This
If only 48 voters had changed their minds, the Dayton-Hudson Corporation would have lost a key zoning fight in their own home state. On March
Target has deadlines to meet! The Minnesota based Wal-Mart clone is in a BIG rush to build a store in Northfield. As one local newspaper
It’s become commonplace for big retailers to create local “astro-turf” citizen’s groups, designed to look and sound like “grass-roots”, but be entirely financed and directed
Target, a division of Dayton Hudson, wants to build a 122,000 s.f. store in the city of Northfield, MN. Or does it? City officials were
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