Checking in on the Trader Joe's and Target Coming to 125th Street in Harlem

Signs for Trader Joe's and Target at the new Urban League Empowerment Center.

Trader Joe's is now open—and a small-format Target is set to arrive on October 13 (EDIT 10/9: the store has opened ahead of its announced schedule)—at a glossy new complex on 125th Street in Harlem.

Both will share retail space at the Urban League Empowerment Center, a 414,000-square-foot development at 121 W 125 Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard that will be the headquarters of the historic National Urban League.

The building will also house the Urban Civil Rights Museum, community groups such as Jazzmobile, plus 170 affordable apartments.

Trader Joe's is located in the basement of 123 W 125th Street.

The Trader Joe's Harlem opened in July in the basement of its official address, 123 W 125th Street.

Target's new Harelm location, which will use the same street entrance as the Trader Joe's, is featured on its October 2024 New Store Openings page and is listed as approximately 44,000 square feet—about the size of the chain's other small-format stores.

Services will include Order Pickup, plus the store will have an Apple at Target and a CVS Pharmacy.

The entrance lobby of the new Target in Harlem, opening on October 13.

Other new retailers in the complex include Sephora and Pandora, which also opened this summer.

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