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NEW YORK AVENUE CORRIDOR STRATEGY • Biggest asset - located ½ way between In the afternoon… Dallas & Fort Worth • Movies • HEB or other grocery store (Desired) • Game places • Rundown apartments with crime • Indoor children play areas • Less cement • Theater and art venue • Parks and gazebos within parking areas • Art movies (like Highlands) Town Square • World class restaurants, wineries, bakeries that reflect the diversity in our BUSINESS AND ACTIVITIES – 2020 community To establish an understanding of the types of de- In early evening… velopment desired in the corridor, the community • World class restaurants, wineries, was asked to envision the corridor in 2020 and bakeries that reflect the diversity in our to explain what they would do at various times of community the day. The following summarizes the commu- • Mom and pop, not chain restaurants nity responses: • Bowling and movies (outdoor!) • Doctor urgent care (like Care Now) In the morning… • Mainstream grocery (south of tracks) west • Café with outdoor seating of Collins • People walking/exercising/hanging out in • Shopping/eating at “International market/ parks and playgrounds food court” • Grocery shopping • Parks • Physicians/urgent care • Fine restaurant w/ attractive outdoor • Bank seating, perhaps a built-in patio area • Medical Needs • Walking trails – outdoor activities Late night… • 24 hour restaurants, or at least 2 am At lunchtime… • Same as early evening • Diverse restaurants, especially Asian • Multiple options to walk to in plaza and a Additionally, the community was asked to de- place to park. scribe specific new developments they would • Restaurants along E. Abram Street like to see in the corridor in 2020. Their respons- • Lunch at the food court in “International es included: Market” • Outdoor café • Fed Ex/Kinkos or comparable mail/print shop • Outdoor musical venue (thinking Magnolia on the Green in Fort Worth) – series • Braums! • Grocery Store – HEB • Vision for the future – retirement living - be able to stay within community as you age 47 FINAL REPORT | SEPTEMBER 2013