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Target Pays $110 Million to Escape Minneapolis Headquarters
Moonbattery ^ | February 27, 2026 | Dave Blount

Posted on 02/27/2026 10:40:51 PM PST by Morgana

An animal will chew its own leg off to escape a trap. Likewise, even a corporation as historically woke as Target will pay whatever it costs to escape its downtown Minneapolis headquarters as the area swirls down a maelstrom of moonbattery into ruin.

Via Newsmax:

For nearly five years, almost one million square feet of former Target office space in downtown Minneapolis — where the retail giant is headquartered — have sat largely vacant, even as Target continued paying rent, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports.

The George Floyd race riots presumably played a role in the area’s second largest employer abandoning its downtown headquarters.

Minneapolis has again become an epicenter of violent unrest as Democrat politicians mobilize mobs of moonbats against federal immigration enforcement. As noted at Not the Bee,

Leftists have spent the last several months storming the corporate offices because Target won’t condemn the operations of federal law enforcement officers who have been tasked with arresting pedophiles, traffickers, and murderers who entered the United States illegally.

Moonbat infestations are not easy on the ears:

Back to Newsmax:

Now the retailer has written a check for nearly $110 million to formally break its City Center tower lease, which had been scheduled to run through 2031.

It is worth any price to get out of the sinkhole an inner city will inevitably become with moonbats like Jacob Frey in control.

It isn’t just Target:

Minneapolis is grappling with roughly 10 million square feet of empty office space. Even with some companies implementing return-to-office policies, tenants across the Twin Cities gave back 300,000 SF more office space than they leased last year.

Go woke, go broke. It applies not just to brands like Bud Light but to whole cities.

(Excerpt) Read more at moonbattery.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: minneapolis; minnesota; target

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1 posted on 02/27/2026 10:40:51 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAH!!


2 posted on 02/27/2026 11:02:23 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Morgana

Target people, “and the like” (pbs/npr/NYT/CNN), voted for decay. Downtown MPLS was a ghost in 1978 - 1980, except the bank where a friend worked.

Another friend bought HEAD skis. The company existed on paper. The factory was shut down - nothing happening.

The area was in its first large scale economic crisis - Detroit’s rust belt.

The leftist-liberal “enlightened” having no wish to be turned away in liberal social circles, by saying something practical.

At a gathering, at the home of the inventor of Soft Soap, nothing practical - except the swimming pool and evening weather were pleasant.

My tennis partner on occasion, was the wife of the Honeywell VP. She was wonderfully smart and practical. Great gal.

A couple guys a Cargill - smart fellows. A friend at 3M - smart.

But the Hubert Humphrey, Democrat Farm Labor, Kennedy family phalanx for “managable socialism” - with “organizers” and elite liberals gainful “returns” thanks to their being exclusive managers - was the pyramid scheme that ruled.


3 posted on 02/27/2026 11:10:51 PM PST by wasmv80
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To: Morgana

Interesting. I like my local Target, which carries a nice selection of everything. Huge store, a mile around. During lockdowns when the gym was closed, I met a friend of mine there and we walked around the perimeter on the INSIDE where it was warm and dry. We had fun and of ccourse bought stuff while exercising.

That was a few years ago.. New neighbor in my neighborhood worked there, she said, and some kind of heavy metal rack fell on her shoulder, broke bones, she couldn’t drive. Target paid her $40,000 even without a lawyer.

She’s reasonably OK looking, had affairs with two single men who live in my complex. One said he broke up with her when she wanted him to pay her rent, the other said she hated his sweet big black dog and gave him a “me or the dog” ultimatum. He chose the dog.

Here comes the WOKE. One of her three kids is a trannie. And that’s absolutely fine with her.


4 posted on 02/27/2026 11:10:52 PM PST by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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To: Morgana

Sounds just like Portland (OR).


5 posted on 02/27/2026 11:55:17 PM PST by OrangeHoof ("Our property is protected by two pitbulls. They love visitors, especially with marinara or garlic.")
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To: Morgana
That explains how Target went woke. Maybe they can jettison the Minnesota crew. "You're fired!".

6 posted on 02/28/2026 12:16:42 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Veto!
#4: "wanted him to pay her rent"

Oh. She's a whore.

7 posted on 02/28/2026 12:19:27 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Well, cool!

Maybe Walz, Frey and the Somalis can turn that million square feet of office space into a giant Learing Center!!!!


8 posted on 02/28/2026 12:36:14 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Morgana

I was banning Target due to their wokeness. May - and I mean may - rethink that.


9 posted on 02/28/2026 1:00:15 AM PST by piytar (NEVER FORGET Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Corey Comperatore, Iryna Zarutska, and Charlie Kirk!ant)
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To: Morgana

Years ago, I had a dream job offer, but it was in Minneapolis.
I passed.
I am glad since.


10 posted on 02/28/2026 2:47:45 AM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: piytar
I was banning Target due to their wokeness. May - and I mean may - rethink that.

Today, I will be going to a Target store for the first time in over 10 years.

There's a certain microwave oven model I want to purchase and in the city, it's only available at Target.

11 posted on 02/28/2026 3:44:30 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Target is a worthless woke company. What a better company to have this experience. LOL!


12 posted on 02/28/2026 5:34:48 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Morgana

The Target corporate employees no doubt voted for the wokism.


13 posted on 02/28/2026 5:38:05 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

My DIL escaped Target last October.


14 posted on 02/28/2026 5:40:51 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: piytar
I was banning Target due to their wokeness. May - and I mean may - rethink that.

I won't unless they publicly announce the end of their woke policies - like men in the lady's rooms.

15 posted on 02/28/2026 6:41:44 AM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: AZJeep

I lived in Minneapolis in from 05 to 07. It seemed reasonably sane then. I left because I was unwilling to go through one more of those Winters. Its gone from liberal but tolerable to completely insane now.


16 posted on 02/28/2026 6:54:48 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Morgana
Earlier Post:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368420/posts

17 posted on 02/28/2026 7:18:16 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Morgana

Sounds like a good investment!


18 posted on 02/28/2026 7:21:28 AM PST by Fresh Wind (I voted for Trump the Fighter, not a wussified wimp!)
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To: Morgana

Downtown Minneapolis is in its death throes. Restaurants and bars are closing and the office towers are losing tenants. The only steady attractions in downtown are the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings and if crime continues to increase fewer fans will be attending home games.


19 posted on 02/28/2026 7:26:01 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Morgana

Mogadishu North don’t need no huge stinkin’ Target Center.

The Somalia party line would say it needs more smaller “Learing Centers”.

Redistribution of grift from large woke corporate grifters to small fry undocumented grifters of color.


20 posted on 02/28/2026 7:27:16 AM PST by Biblebelter
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