Target’s small-format urban store prototype is opening its first downtown Boston location.
The discounter has leased 11,000 square feet at 100 Cambridge St., part of a nationwide rollout this year of 30 stores near urban centers and college campuses.
A grand opening date was not available, but a Target spokesman said the Bowdoin Square store will be tailored to serve the local market. Target opened a similar, but slightly larger, 16,000-square-foot store at 860 Commonwealth Ave. in 2016 and a 160,000-square-foot store at 1341 Boylston St. in the Fenway in 2015.
The Minneapolis-based chain will open its 47th Massachusetts store – and first on Cape Cod – this fall at Simon Property Group’s Cape Cod Mall.
Target also plans a 2020 opening for a 27,000-square-foot store at 500 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester’s Fields Corner, and recently announced that it will anchor the retail portion of the North Quincy MBTA station redevelopment with a 40,000-square-foot store.