I Waited So Long for This Target Store to Open That I Don’t Want It Anymore

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'In the time it took to make one Target, I made two humans,' writes awalkerinLA

It’s here! Photo: Alissa Walker I still remember seeing the very first rendering on Curbed 13 years ago — “Bulls-Eye: Is This Your New Hollywood Target?” — my eyes drawing quickly toward and fixating upon the two red concentric circles on the upper-left corner of the building. A Target in Hollywood? One I could walk to? It seemed too good to be true. And, as it turns out, it almost was.

The main gripe that the group cited was that the building was taller than the local height limit, and technically it was, having been granted a variance by L.A.’s City Council. Litigating such a development was a speciality of the La Mirada Avenue Neighborhood Association’s lawyer, Robert Silverstein, who has, over the past decade, successfully slowed or stopped the construction of at least a dozen other projects in Hollywood.

Impulse buys aside, I was really here to see the sidewalk. This Target was designed in this litigiously density-forward way to make it more pedestrian friendly, which was particularly ironic when construction was paused, closing the sidewalk for almost six years — not just fed under a sidewalk shed but completely fenced off.

But if this development was sold as an attempt to welcome and serve me and my neighbors, there is little evidence of that in the final product. As you approach the store from either corner of its freshly poured, unbuckled pavement — a true rarity in L.A. — it feels as if you’re walking into a parking garage, because, in a sense, you are.

 

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