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Latest on planned Dunkin’ location near Placerville. National Donut Day is Friday, but I couldn’t hold back on this news. For more than two years, we’ve been following the progress of a planned Dunkin’ store in the Prospector’s Plaza retail center near Placerville. Now, it appears an opening date for the store is within reach. The Dunkin’ store near Placerville is tentatively scheduled to open July 23, according to a spokesperson for the doughnut chain.

A demolition crew from J.A. Snyder Pacific West was busy late last month making way for a Quick Quack Car Wash at 3982 Missouri Flat Road in Placerville. A building at the site once held a Bank of America and later a seasonal Spirit Halloween store.

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More changes are coming to Prospector’s Plaza near Placerville in 2024, with the arrivalof Dunkin’ and Quick Quack Car Wash. The incoming businesses have been a long time coming, said Chris Shane, managingpartner of Gryphon Capital, which along with Rich Development Co. owns the center.

It’s been more than a year since we told you that Target Corp. would fill a former Kmart space at the Prospector’s Plaza retail property near Placerville. Update: The store at 3968 Missouri Flat Road has opened, and will hold a grand opening event on Sunday, according to representatives from Target (NYSE: TGT).

A soft opening of the new Target store in Prospector’s Plaza in Placerville drew a number of shoppers Wednesday. Some even waited in line to be the first in when the store opened at 8 a.m. The grand opening is set for Sunday but that didn’t stop anyone from coming earlier as was obvious from the packed parking lot.

Eager shoppers get ready to start your engines because the new Target store in Placerville is set to open. Target management is planning a soft opening Aug. 12 and a grand opening Aug. 16. Details on a possible grand opening celebration were not available by press time. Already sporting a Starbucks bar near the entrance, the shelves were in and mostly stocked Wednesday — although the mannequins still needed clothes. The department store is in the process of hiring employees with applications taken at a desk inside the front entrance.

Construction crews — deemed as essential workers amid COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders — make progress last week on the remodel of the former Kmart building in Placerville that will be home to a new Target store.

It appears an upcoming Target store has led several major retailers to consider joining a Placerville shopping center. GC Placerville LLC, a joint venture of Gryphon Capital and Rich Development Co., bought Prospector’s Plaza on Missouri Flat Road in June. The purchase price for the 19.87-acre center was $24.13 million, according to records from real estate data service Reonomy.

Target will fill an empty former Kmart space at a retail center in Placerville, and other property improvements are in the works. Chris Shane, a managing partner with Gryphon Capital of Manhattan Beach, said the vacancy in Prospector’s Plaza lined up perfectly with a big-box store looking for a new location.