I definitely think it can reach $1,000 by the end of the year, as it is way faster and cheaper to send transactions with Litecoin than it is BTC, ETH, or BCH. With the introduction of Litepay, and then supporting segwit will be big developments for Litecoin this year as far as usage goes. The biggest question on whether it will reach the $1,000 mark in price will be whether the scaling efforts work for the project or not. I definitely think Charlie Lee has been rejuvenated with new ideas for the project as well, so there could be all kinds of upgrades in store for LTC this year. That's just my speculation though.