It's official. Target Corp. is planning to anchor the massive urban retail complex that has been long talked about for Columbia Heights. Just how Target's location in Brooklyn made it OK for hipsters to shop at Big Box stores, we think the Columbia Heights Target will create a quandary for the pre-gentrifiers up on the upper 14th Street corridor. (We expect an in-depth article in the City Paper soon.)

The Post reports that the mayor's office has confirmed that the Minnesota-based Target plans to buy a 180,000 square foot yet-to-be-built building on 14th Street, between Park Road and Irving Street developed by the GRID Properties. Other retailers are lining up as well, with Modell's and Bed Bath & Beyond eyeing the site. Whole Foods, which has an outpost on P Street, 15-some blocks to the south, is not interested in a Columbia Heights location after expressing some interest. The development is slated to be completed by 2007.

DCist has a few questions we'd like to lay out there regarding the future Target. Maybe you all can put forth your thoughts on this major development in D.C.'s urban development:

How will it affect the rapidly rising housing prices/rents in Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights? Will Petworth be the new Columbia Heights? Will then Fort Totten be the new fringe gentrification outpost by 2010? Just as Whole Foods gave a rebirth to Logan Circle, will Columbia Heights become the new Logan Circle? Will the Raven start offering trappist ales (we hope not) and repair its ceiling? And from a transit perspective, will the 42 bus abandon its Mount Pleasant terminal for the Columbia Heights metrorail station?

So many questions. Let the gentrification wars begin (or should we say continue?).