Target, Kohl stores find home at Windsor Park in Amherst. (Target Stores and Kohl's Department Stores Inc. start operations in Amherst, New York)

Two of the newest national retailers to the area will open local stores in Amherst's newest shopping plaza.

Target Stores and Kohl's Department Stores will co-anchor the Windsor Park Place plaza, a nearly 200,000-square-foot shopping center planned for Transit Road, just north of Maple Road.

The plaza is one of two projects under consideration for the sprawling, mixed-used Maple-Ayer residential-commercial development.

The other is for rezoning a 57.8-acre parcel for upper-end, single-family homes.

Real estate sources said Target plans a 117,000-square-foot store while Kohl's plans an 80,600-square-foot store.

Tentative plans also call for a …