Target Store coming to Wesley Chapel

A Target store is coming to the corner of N.C. 84 and Waxhaw-Indian Trail Road in the Union County village of Wesley Chapel.

The Minneapolis-based retailer has purchased almost a quarter of the 44-acre parcel that is part of the Village Commons complex on the southeast corner of the intersection, according to documents filed at the Register of Deeds Jan 31.

Target bought the 10.7-acre piece of land for $2.3 million, the deed shows.

A representative from Aston Properties, which is developing the shopping center, is scheduled to speak at Wesley Chapel’s Village Council meeting tonight. Mayor Tracey Clinton said Monday that she expects the developer to announce Target’s participation in the shopping center, which is a second phase to the Village Commons complex.

Clinton, who got her start in town politics opposing the shopping center in 2003, said she’s pleased Target will be the “big-box” store that anchors it.

“If we do have to have a big box, this is the best one to have,” Clinton said. She said Wesley Chapel has grown and changed much since her neighborhood chose her as a spokesperson to oppose the shopping center. The Village Council is also scheduled to vote on the final step in establishing a controversial zoning power. The council will vote on the extraterritorial jurisdiction zoning map, which will make official village control over the zoning on certain parcels outside the municipality’s boundaries. A majority of the county commissioners, who voted to rescind the village’s authority to create the zoning area, have said they will not recognize village authority over those parcels.

The village council meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, 120 Potter Road.

 article from: the Charlotte Observer/by Julia Oliver