Meridian’s first Target, hotels and more may come to big Ten Mile development
In the future, Meridian shoppers may no longer have to cross dreaded Eagle Road to get to Target. In fact, a major commercial development going up on Ten Mile Road may soon give residents of the fast-growing Boise suburb more than one reason to stay closer to home.
In early September, a Boise planning consulting firm submitted a letter to the city of Meridian to confirm if a proposed Target complies with city zoning designations for a piece of property at the northwest corner of Ten Mile and Interstate 84. The city’s response, according to a Sept. 8 letter: It sure does.
Consultants Kimley-Horn’s letter indicated that the store would sit on 11.2 acres of commercially zoned land west of Ten Mile. It would place the possible Target within The District at Ten Mile, a 220-acre master-planned development with planned dining and retail, two hotels, office space and up to 400 town houses in the works along the interchange.
The shopping hub is spearheaded by Ahquist Development in partnership with Fred Bruning, the developer behind The Village at Meridian. It is one of the last big spurts of commercial development to come to the rapidly developing interchange area. City officials last year dubbed the development “The Village 2.0.”
Tommy Ahlquist, the Treasure Valley developer behind his namesake company, declined to comment on whether The District at Ten Mile would see the likes of a Target. He told the Idaho Statesman that more information about various tenants, including for the hotels, a law enforcement-focused day care, and stores would become available later.
A conceptual image on Ahlquist’s website shows a 11.2-acre parcel west of Ten Mile and south of Cobalt Road labeled as a proposed “Target store” with over 147,000 square feet and with 600 parking stalls. The image shows a number of other planned buildings, including three “multi-tenant retail buildings” varying from 8,000 to nearly 25,000 square feet.
“Across much of the country, our typical Target stores average about 125,000 square feet,” says the popular box-store company’s website. That’s much closer to the size of Boise’s Target on Eagle Road, whose plans clocked in at 125,400 square feet, the Statesman previously reported.
Boise has another Target on Milwaukee Street., while Nampa has one on Marketplace Boulevard, northeast of the Interstate. If Target moves forward at The District at Ten Mile, it would be Meridian’s first.
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The letter from city planning staff confirmed that a Target would be an allowable use.
“The zoning verification process is a formal request for the city to confirm whether a property is zoned appropriately for a particular use,” explained city Planning Supervisor Bill Parsons in an email to the Statesman. “They are most commonly requested during the sale or refinancing of a property, not necessarily a precursor to an application submittal.”
