Here are some of the comments from Facebook so far

• Samantha Hattley Middletown has done nothing but go downhill and is getting worse. Target is probably closing due to the fact they don't sell heroin and meth. Its pathetic and Middletown is a hopeless lost cause.

  
  
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  Mark David Anderson Poor Milddletown...

  
• Jessica Schlabach Don't care never like Target anyway

  
• Cindy Terrill Not another empty building come on Middletown.....

  
• Angie Comer I don't shop target ne ways but almost every business is moving out ta middletown maybe that's a sign telling ppl to move out ta middletown.. I will be soon.

  
• Angel Moore Yep...I just left that area myself.
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  Rebecca Volterman-Breaks That's a shame. However I will probably try to go to the closing sale if they have one and pay cash.

  
• Angie Comer Angel Moore I'm fixing to move to I'm not from middletown but younger days had to move with my mom here for her job..

  
• Kimberly Keene Graham Wow. I don't shop there but I am a bit shocked to hear this information.

  
• Kevin Burton Walmart * will stay on top for a long, long time.

  
• Jordan Willis Kroger is better than Wal Mart Walmart sucks in my opinion

  
  
• Robert Hill Diana Densler GinnFinn I haye walmart and love target so have fun

  
• Gregg Coulter Waiting for this worthless Target store in Blue ash to close so we can all say "Told ya so" They forced it down our throats tho we kept 12 acres of woods from getting in the hands of the developers or it would have been a super Target and a Kohl's and a strip Mall.

  
• Gina Flach Carrie Passmore Bowman Holly N Ryan Taulbee is this your target you shop at

  
• Cindy Stewart That sucks

  
• Diana Densler Ginn They should close ALL TARGET, stores!

  
• Jim Riseborough 2 out of 8 in dayton area. Not so good.

  
• David Cross I suspect it wont be the first.

  
• Timothy Noel Hammond Is everything gonna be marked down?

  
• Karen Ostermann So sad!

  
  

Well, never patronized the store that much. Go to Lowes next door often. As I remember, Target, a French owned company, was the chain that wouldn't allow the Marines to stand by the doorway for their Toys For Tots program, nor let the Salvation Army place the kettles there at Christmas time. Not necessarily a big supporter of the military in this country or so I have heard. Bad publicity in that regard.

Still, bottom line......one less choice for the shoppers of Middletown as was the K-Mart exit. Sad to see.

Target is not a French-owned company. 

swohio75 wrote: Target is not a French-owned company.

You are correct!

It is a Minnesota based company. Appreciate the correction. Don't know where I heard that info.

Someone started a petition to save the Middletown Target at Change.org and there are already 200 signatures.

Good luck with that sincerely.

I worked at Target from June 1995 when they opened on Roosevelt until September 2007.. We had good management in the store up until the time I left. and in my opinion they were struggling then to make sales. I am surprised they stayed open this long to be honest. I think the fiasco over the Black Friday Hacking of Accounts is not helping their business, but it happens, and it is sad that Middletown is loosing another big employer only to have another EMPTY Building... Sad!!

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the movie people declined the option to purchase

Roberta Flack first did Killing Me Softly

It takes a lot of customer traffic spending $$ EVERY DAY to keep retail operational

No one ever WANTS to close a retail business. The CONSUMER ultimately decides who stays and who goes. Bemoaning after the fact is so hypocritical. Look into the mirror. We all decide what we have and how we live.....

Thanx 4 all of the kind words........

Been down to the Central University train station, bags packed--waiting for that train that we were guaranteed. Must be running late

If things don't get fixed soon, we are going to be the next Trotwood. And our mall is going to end up like the Salem Mall. 

Acclaro
I just heard that even the sales at Walmart here in Middletown are down ...

If in fact Walmart sales are down what does that tell you about the sales numbers of other retail businesses in this area?

 

JOBS. but who wants to move here for a job if there is any other option. The city has been mismanaged for several decades but the current council doesn't have a clue how to begin to help the recovery. How sad for Middletown!!!

Its been interesting to observe that Governors who have moved their states forward in the last four or five years have had similiar agendas. These priorities have helped their states move forward and I wonder why these priorities won't  work on the county and municipal levels. I believe strongly they would turn Middletown around but it would take 2-5 years of sticking to it. For what they are worth here they are. Would you come to Middletown with your business if the city was successful and publicizing these accomplishements when they are achieved? You bet your economy you would.
1. Improve the citiy's credit rating.
2. Increase the rainy day fund.
3. Maintain strong support for local education.
4. Encourage economic development (jobs). Especially in health and Research development areas.
5. Demonstrate pragmatism that will increase property values. (Doesn't require austerity but conservative practices.))
6. Reduce taxes.
7. Loosen up on regulations that keep businesses from coming to our city.
8. Do it all without cutting services.
These accomplishments will do more for the entire city overall and still allow "special interests" to prosper more.
Just thinking out loud.
Paul Nagy