Nicollet Avenue from Seventh Street Now and Then
Now
Nicollet Avenue from Seventh Street. The original, flagship Dayton’s department store (now known as Macy’s Minneapolis) is on the right. Dayton’s was the parent of Target, opening the first Target in 1962 as the discount store version of Dayton’s. Target quickly grew to become the majority of the company’s business. In 2000, Dayton-Hudson was renamed Target Corporation. In 2004, Target finally divested their department store division to focus on discount retailing. May Company purchased the stores prior to its own acquisition by Federated Department Stores, which rebranded all the Marshall Field’s stores as Macy’s. Many Minnesotans have resisted the double name change, and continue to refer to “Dayton’s” when speaking of the old stores in Southdale and Rosedale Center and Downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.
and Then
Nicollet Avenue from Seventh Street ca. 1912
