Not Quite on Target

The downside of "mixed-use development" urbanism

Back in March, Target announced the impending closure of two D.C.-area stores. There are a lot of Targets scattered around the D.C. suburbs in Maryland and Virginia. A couple of them are older, so when I saw the headline I thought Target might be paring down its oldest strip-retail locations—to focus, perhaps, on expanding its emerging small-format stor…