The Target store slated to open in the Fenway next year – the region’s first so-called “CityTarget” store – will be large. Quite large, in fact.

Fenway’s CityTarget will span four-floors, a total of 160,000 square feet; despite being dubbed an “urban-concept” store, suggesting a smaller design, this CityTarget will be the retailer’s largest – even larger than a typical Target.

Its interior-design fixtures – including a second-floor Starbucks – will decrease the total shopping area to about the size of a normal Target store – 135,000 square feet – Target’s senior director of store operations Kamau Witherspoon told the Boston Globe .

Currently there are eight CityTarget stores in densely populated areas in U.S. cities Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon. Witherspoon told the Globe that Fenway’s retail boom, and the public transportation available in the area, made it a good fit for a CityTarget. “The opportunity to be in such a prominent location near Fenway and near a T stop was really appealing to us,” Witherspoon said. “Now, many of our urban guests have to travel a long distance outside the city to reach a Target.”

CityTarget will be located on the corner of Boylston and Kilmarnock streets.

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