Target-style retail store with thousands of daily customers proposed in Pasco
The city of Pasco is processing a development application for a large, unnamed store that includes prominent design features unique to Target stores.
The city determined the proposed 128,000-square-foot retail store and a related building for a fast-food restaurant will not significantly affect the environment in a notice posted Wednesday to the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) Register.
The application and documents do not identify the store, but include a rendering of what it will look like.
The rendering shows a gleaming red and white building with round, red bollards along the front to prevent vehicles from driving onto the sidewalk. Red barriers are a feature of Target stores.
A Target spokesperson told the Tri-City Herald the Minneapolis-based chain had no new stores to share.
Target Corp. has Tri-Cities stores in Kennewick and Richland.
The unnamed store in Pasco would be built on a 14.5-acre parcel at Burden Boulevard and the future alignment of Road 76.
The property is vacant but was once farmland. It is immediately west of Lowe’s Home Improvement and south of the Pasco Walmart Supercenter.
Land leased from DNR
The state Department of Natural Resources as a long-term lease with the developer Seattle-based Pacland, according to environmental documents.
In a separate high-profile lease, the state agency leased former orchard land in Richland to Costco Wholesale. The Tri-Cities’ second Costco is 189,000-square-feet and opened in August.
The project is referred to in environmental documents as Pasco Black Development Retail with a possible construction date of summer 2026, according to the checklist prepared in October.
Traffic impacts
A November traffic impact analysis commissioned by Pacland projects the new store will add nearly 5,400 new vehicle trips on weekdays and 6,600 on Saturdays.
Traffic impacts would be felt at Road 76 and Sandifur Parkway, on Burden Boulevard and at Road 68 and Burden Boulevard.
At those levels, the developer would pay the city of Pasco nearly $1 million in traffic impact fees.
A separate fast-food restaurant would contribute an additional $50,000, according to the impact study by TenW of Kirkland.
Public comment sought
The deadline to comment on the SEPA determination is Dec. 29, 2025. Direct comments to Ivan Barragan, barragani@pasco-wa.gov, or call 509-544-4146.
This story was originally published December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM.