SuperTarget plan for Bloomington gets very cold shoulder from residents

Two city departments have also weighed in saying increased traffic would be a serious problem, too. By HERÓN MÁRQUEZ ESTRADA, Star Tribune The bright, white T-shirt worn by Jana Brown made it quite clear where she stood on allowing a SuperTarget store to be built near her home in west Bloomington: "No-Re-Zoning," blared the message on the shirts worn by Brown and dozens of other members of the recently formed Southwest Bloomington Accidental Activists. "We're really concerned about the traffic," said Brown, among an estimated 400 people crammed into a theater at City Hall on Thursday night for a hearing on the issue by the Bloomington Planning Commission. The Target Corp. is asking the commission to rezone a 22-acre site so the retailer can put up a 179,000 square-foot SuperTarget grocery-department store at Normandale... [read full story]