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As the District is redeveloped, a full-service <br />District 3|Forest Park Station <br />restaurant could attract young professionals <br />Recommendations for Forest Park Station and families, as well as commuters stopping <br />seek to create a neighborhood node of for a meal or drink after work. Other <br />transit-oriented development, serving the retailers such as a florist, gourmet deli with <br />needs of local residents and MetroLink prepared foods for take-out, and boutique <br />riders. fitness center would complement these uses. <br />1|Mixed-Use Development <br />Examples of retailers that could be targeted <br />for this District include WalgreenÔs, First <br />The two sites adjacent to the Forest Park <br />Watch, Curves, or Blooms in The Loop. <br />Station, the park-and-ride lot and the bus <br />turn-around, have potential for development <br />into mixed-use properties. <br />Moderate-density development on these <br />sites should introduce a new residential <br />product type to the area, offering transit- <br />oriented multi-family living for young <br />professionals and young families. These <br />developments could also offer some office <br />space, seeking to attract small neighborhood <br />service firms such as attorneys or doctors, as <br />well as ground floor retail. Structured <br />parking will likely be necessary for any <br />larger-scale development on these sites, but <br />there is ample space to accommodate a <br />sufficiently-sized structure. <br />2|Retail <br />3|Transit Reconfiguration <br />A reimagined Forest Park Station area <br />Relocation of the multi-modal connection for <br />should include tenants such as a national <br />MetroLink and MetroBus to the Forest Park <br />drug store that would provide health and <br />Station would benefit this area as well as the <br />beauty products, as well as groceries and <br />Delmar Loop Station area. As part of this <br />other essentials that can capture existing <br />transition, it would be valuable to create a <br />spending potential. Additionally, a highly- <br />transit plaza contiguous with the station in <br />visible coffee café that serves breakfast, <br />which the modal shifts and splits could occur <br />lunch and light dinner could function as a <br />within a vibrant public space, bringing <br />neighborhood gathering place, as well as an <br />vitality to the public realm. <br />amenity for transit riders and visitors to the <br /> <br />Missouri History Museum. <br />14 <br />DLARP&DS <br />ELMAR OOP REA ETAIL LAN EVELOPMENT TRATEGY <br /> <br />