Target to evaluate Brunswick sites in 2014

Star News - Target is expected to set its sights on Brunswick County in 2014, a representative of the company told the county’s economic development officer.  The retailer plans to begin evaluating possible locations that year, said Jim Bradshaw, Brunswick County Economic Development Commission executive director, in an e-mail. Bradshaw went to the International Council of Shopping Centers conference in Charlotte last week, where he met with a number of chain store representatives.  Food Lion is set to begin engineering work on its planned new store in Supply, and is slated to begin construction next year, Bradshaw said. It will be built behind the Hardee’s at the intersection of U.S. 17 and N.C. 211.  McDonald’s has also decided to build a new restaurant at that intersection after ruling out the new Brunswick Novant Medical Center site. Construction should begin this year, Bradshaw said.  Harris Teeter has dropped plans for a store at N.C. 211 and Midway Road, Bradshaw said, skeptical that there are enough people living in the area and cautious of competing with the proposed Lowes Foods, which could begin construction late this year.  Chick-fil-a and T.J. Maxx also expressed an interest in coming to Brunswick County, and Bradshaw said he will be following up.