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Target is plotting its first new San Antonio super store in more than a decade — and it’s a doozy. The Minnesota-based retail giant is eyeing the southwest corner of Marbach Road and TX-1604 for a $21 million megacenter filled with 148,356 square feet of groceries, towels, and various tchotchkes from Chip and Joanna Gaines.

To put the size in perspective, the average Target store is 125,000 square feet. But big box construction has been waning with the rise of e-tailers like Amazon and shifting customer preferences. Like competitor Ikea, Target has lately been experimenting with much smaller locations near college campuses and in cramped urban corridors. According to retail industry news site Chain Store Age, some of those outlets are as small as 20,000 square feet, roughly the size of two Cheesecake Factories.