The new T.J. Maxx store opens in Greenport this Sunday, Oct. 24 at 8 a.m., and the Kohl's store in the same Greenport Commons shopping center is under construction now too. Last spring, Marco Marzocchi, counsel for the owner of the plaza, Widewwaters, repeatedly said that Kohl’s would not come to Greenport Commons unless the Columbia County Industrial Development Agency granted a PILOT (payment in lieu of [property] taxes) to the national company. The IDA denied the PILOT, and Kohl's and T.J. Maxx both came anyway.