A building permit for a 129,000-square-foot Target was issued in Monument on August 31st, and inspectors were on the site two days later. The store will anchor Legacy at Jackson Landing, a 30-acre commercial development on the east side of Interstate 25 that the town council approved unanimously last November. It is a separate project from the Monument Marketplace center immediately to its north.
The Pikes Peak Regional Building Department issued permit Q58351 to Ryan Companies US, a national contractor, for a new commercial building at 1350 Blevins Buckle Trail. The building permit carried a fee of $67,064 and was issued on August 31st; an electrical permit followed on September 3rd. Regional Building puts the value of the project at $22.3m.
Work is under way. Three inspections were recorded on September 2nd — a pre-construction visit and two footing inspections performed by a third-party engineer — and all three passed.
The project, in brief
Location: South and west of Blevins Buckle Trail and Jackson Creek Parkway, east of I-25
Anchor: A 129,000-square-foot Target on Lot 1, at 1350 Blevins Buckle Trail
Building permit: Q58351, issued August 31, 2026, fee $67,064
Contractor: Ryan Companies US
Approved: Ordinance 20-2025 and Resolution 62-2025, both 7-0, November 3, 2025
Phase 1: 22.032 acres — Lots 1, 2 and 3 and Tract A
At build-out: Nine lots and one tract
Water and sewer: Triview Metropolitan District
Where it is
Legacy at Jackson Landing occupies 30.216 acres south and west of the intersection of Blevins Buckle Trail and Jackson Creek Parkway, roughly 540 feet west of the parkway. Interstate 25 forms its western boundary. The retail center anchored by Home Depot and Kohl’s sits directly to its north; the land to its east and south is vacant.
The distinction matters because the two are easily conflated. Monument Marketplace is a separate development platted in 2003 and 2006. Legacy at Jackson Landing is new ground, and the legal description of its first phase runs along Monument Marketplace’s southern boundary.
The Target occupies Lot 1, in the northwest corner of the site, closest to the interstate. A second anchor and a row of shops are planned on Lot 2 immediately to its east, and a building with four or five attached retail and restaurant spaces on Lot 3 to the south. A fourth parcel, Tract A, holds a stormwater detention pond in the southwest corner, with a ten-foot soft-surface trail looping around it and running along the east side of I-25.
Those four parcels are Phase 1, covering 22.032 acres. At full build-out the development is platted for nine lots.
How it was approved
The Monument Planning Commission held public hearings on the application on September 10th and October 8th, 2025, and recommended approval 7-0. The town council took it up on November 3rd, 2025, held its own public hearing, and adopted Ordinance 20-2025 and Resolution 62-2025 by identical 7-0 votes. The ordinance approved a preliminary planned unit development for the whole site and a final PUD for Phase 1; the resolution approved the accompanying plats.
The council attached a single condition: any freestanding signage must be a monument sign of similar height to the signage at Monument Market Place North.
Neither document names Target. Retail tenants are not usually identified at that stage, because none has committed when a site is entitled; the plan set labels the two anchors “Major A” and “Major B.”
The applicant is Chris Hake of Legacy Development Partners, of Phoenix. The Garrett Companies, of Denver, appears as owner and developer on the plan set, and Kimley-Horn’s Colorado Springs office is the project engineer.
What else is coming
Mayor Mitch LaKind told KKTV in April that the finished center would exceed 225,000 square feet and that the developer was still filling vacancies.
Mr LaKind has confirmed that the center’s signed tenants are Target, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Chick-fil-A and Firehouse Subs.
The Chick-fil-A is not yet approved. It is filed with the town as case 2026-012 — a 4,728-square-foot restaurant with two drive-through lanes, 88 indoor and 24 patio seats and 71 parking spaces, on a 1.48-acre parcel — and is under review, with a Planning Commission hearing still to come.
A second building is already going up beside the Target. Regional Building issued a core-and-shell permit on August 26th for 1330 Blevins Buckle Trail, to The Garrett Construction Company, with a fee of $28,925, along with a permit for a trash enclosure next door.
Roads, water and a traffic signal
Under the approved final PUD the developer is responsible for a set of public improvements in Phase 1: widening Blevins Buckle Trail to its intersection with Jackson Creek Parkway, adding medians and turn lanes, realigning the north-south leg of Blevins Buckle, and installing a traffic signal at the Blevins Buckle and Jackson Creek intersection.
Water and sewer come from the Triview Metropolitan District, which told the town during the hearings that it had capacity to serve the development. Triview approved the project’s utility plans in June. The site is outside Colorado Springs Utilities’ gas and electric territory.
Buildings across the development are capped at 50 feet. The Target is drawn at 24 feet 8 inches, with a tower element reaching 40 feet.
The developer told KKTV in April that it expected the center to open in October 2027.
Sources & further reading
The Independent’s own coverage: Three Governments, One Map: The Independent Launches TriLakes Growth, which describes the town’s project list and its pre-application entries · Monument Town Council, August 17, 2026, for the town’s capital plan and the southbound lanes of Jackson Creek Parkway
Building permits: Pikes Peak Regional Building Department permit records for Q58351, Q57608, Q57622 and Q49645, and plan C211103, all on parcel 7126000003
Town record: Ordinance No. 20-2025, approving the preliminary PUD and the Phase I final PUD · Resolution No. 62-2025, approving the plats · the Planning Department’s Current Development Review Projects map, which lists the Chick-fil-A application and the sites under construction
Plan set: Legacy at Jackson Landing Final PUD plans and Phase I final plat, filed with the Town of Monument and prepared by Kimley-Horn and Barron Land
Utilities: Triview Metropolitan District
Other coverage: KKTV first reported the center and its tenant list on April 17, 2026; KRDO, KKTV and KOAA reported the permit on September 3, 2026
Methodology
Permit numbers, dates, fees, contractors and inspection results come from the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department’s public permit and plan records, read on September 4, 2026. The $22.3m project value is a figure the department has given to news outlets; it does not appear in the permit records the public can search, which this newspaper confirmed with the department by telephone on September 4th.
Hearing dates, vote counts, acreages and the condition of approval come from Ordinance No. 20-2025 and Resolution No. 62-2025, read in full. Both are scanned documents; the recorded votes were read from the signature pages rather than from optical character recognition. Building sizes and the phasing come from the approved Final PUD plan set and its site statistics table.
The map was built from the same records. The parcel boundary was plotted from the metes and bounds in Exhibit A of the ordinance and resolution; it closes to within a tenth of a foot and computes to 22.033 acres against a recorded 22.032. That boundary was then registered to the recorded final plat, a fit that resolves to the plat’s own stated scale of one inch to 100 feet, and the lot lines were traced from the plat. Each traced lot falls within 6 percent of the area printed on the plat, and the traced Target footprint within 1 percent of the 129,000 square feet stated in the plan set. The roads and the signal location are shown by description rather than by survey.
