T.J. Maxx coming to Rehoboth Beach
An opening date is not yet available, but company officials have confirmed a T.J. Maxx is opening on Route 1 outside Rehoboth Beach. The store will be located between andThat! and Aldi.
In an email Feb. 27, T.J. Maxx public relations specialist Sabrina Stewart said the store will open at some point in the future. A press release announcing the grand opening will be issued when the store is closer to the opening date, she said.
The opening of T.J. Maxx will complete the multi-year, end-to-end renovation of a building that was once all a 56,700-square-foot Kmart. The redevelopment began in 2017, with the Kmart downsizing by nearly three-quarters to accommodate andThat! and PetSmart. Kmart officially closed its doors in early 2020, with Aldi opening in late 2021.
According to Sussex County property records, the 13-acre piece of land, which also includes the large parking lot and Chick-fil-A, was sold in November for a little more than $20 million to Coastal One Properties LLC.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories, random stories on subjects he finds interesting and has a column called ‘Choppin’ Wood’ that runs every other week. Additionally, Chris moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes during daylight hours that are jammed with coins, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
