Santa Monica with all its traffic calming has created a city of grid log. You can't just get around. Creating a large store like that in the downtown area makes no sense at all. Check out the Costco in Culver City. See what the Los Angeles city traffic engineers have done to direct the increased traffic load.
Target proposes a customer friendly store, an esthetically pleasing building, underground parking.
The product won't be there, which means more wasted trips to down town Santa Monica. The US may have lost the Vietnam War but we won the peace and the power. Where I was sitting in '68 was Switzerland with Soviet tanks poised to crush the Prague spring a few miles away. What will be remembered by future generations and thanksgiving given for is that the international left was defeated and freedom prevailed. The Berlin wall came down and most folks, a few English professors notwithstanding, have had to admit that in the end Communism really was a lot worse than anti-Communism.