Target Eyes Fall Opening For Burlington Store

BURLINGTON, MA -- Target said this week that it plans to open its new Burlington store this fall. The company is currently renovating space in Crossroad Plaza that has been vacant since Roche Brothers closed in December. Target is also moving through the town's permitting process and on schedule for an October opening.

The new store will be a small-format store, similar to the one the company operates at the Redstone Shopping Plaza in Stoneham. The company is also opening a similar small-format store in Cambridge around the same time the Burlington store opens.

Roche Brothers employees were told in October that the store would close when the current lease expired December 9. The company said the store had suffered from sluggish sales -- undoubtedly caused in part by the Wegman's store that opened in Burlington three years ago. The Roche Brothers has anchored the Burlington Crossroads shopping plaza on Cambridge Street since opening in 2001.

The store closing came as Roche Brothers announced the opening of a new "Brothers Marketplace" store in Waltham next spring. The next closest Roche Brothers store to Burlington is in Acton, which the company opened in 1995. The company said it would continue to offer catering and delivery services in the Burlington area.

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