Target at Fulham Gardens to close and be replaced with a Woolworths supermarket
Another Target store will close next month and be replaced by a Woolworths supermarket and Dan Murphy’s outlet.
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Target will close its doors at the Fulham Gardens Shopping Centre for the final time next month, after more than 40 years as part of the local community.
The Tapleys Hill Rd store, which will shut on August 22, will be replaced with a Woolworths supermarket, Dan Murphy’s and a variety store.
The Dan Murphy’s will be on the centre’s southern side and have a drive-through.
Centre property manager Theo Kaldis said the complex would undergo a “major redevelopment” as part of the changes, which would cost more than $10 million.
“It will modernise the centre, which is well overdue,” Mr Kaldis said.
He said the BWS would close and be turned into two new speciality shops.
Mr Kaldis hoped the upgrade would start in late October and be finished mid-next year.
He said Target had been part of the centre for “well over 40 years”.
When it first opened, it shared the complex with an Arrow supermarket and a Red Apple restaurant, until they closed in the early 1990s.
Mr Kaldis hoped that once the redevelopment was finished, and all new tenants had moved in, the centre would employ more people than it currently does.
A Woolworths spokesperson said the company was “very excited” to be moving into Fulham Gardens.
They said an opening date for the supermarket had not been set, but it was likely to be in the second half of next year.
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Target’s closure comes two months after its owner, Wesfarmers, announced it was taking the axe to its Target network across Australia, and cutting 10 per cent of its workforce.
At the time, it was announced that five stores would close in SA, mostly in the regions, and four stores would be converted into a Kmart.
Woolworths closed an outlet at Harbour Town, West Beach, in April last year.
A Target spokeswoman said it would “work with” the store’s 56 employees to “identify and offer other redeployment opportunities in Kmart, Catch, Bunnings and Officeworks as these businesses continue to grow”.