Building History

This portion of the Newmark Tower once housed a small shopping mall that failed. Target, as part of a new marketing strategy, began to locate smaller department stores in urban centers; this Seattle store was one of the first two smaller versions of Target stores, the other being a new outlet in Louis Sullivan's famed Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Department Store in Chicago's Loop. (Another opened in Los Angeles's reviving downtown in 2012.)

As noted by urban writer Mark Hinshaw, this new Target store was nearby to the site of another mid-level department store, that of J.C. Penney, on the soutwest corner of 2nd Avenue and Pike Street, that closed in 1986. (see Mark Hinshaw, Crosscut.com, "On Target: a dramatic turnaround for a tawdry part of downtown," published 07/30/2012, accessed 06/19/2019.)

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