San Bernardino E Street Station Plan

A New Public Transit station being built in downtown San Bernardino opens up the opportunity to create new, retail and mixed use development. The City of San Bernardino and Compass Blueprint teamed up to create the E Street Station Demonstration Project in order to explore the possibilities surrounding the E Street Station metro stop. Opportunities for the E Street Station range from a stand-alone multi-modal transit station set beside single-story retail development, to a Transit Village containing multi-story, mixed-use buildings of residential, retail, office, and transit uses. The E Street Station is an important regional transportation link and it's opening will be a step toward a mixed-use downtown core that will generate downtown activity.

Goals:

• Develop retail or mixed use around new transit station
• Integrate developers into the transit center planning process
• Link regional buses into a transit hub
• Project ridership and local socioeconomic trends

Services Included in the Study:

• Land use opportunities and constraints analyses from a transit-oriented perspective
• Contextual urban design strategies to intensify land uses
• Circulation analyses that focus on issues associated with future transit ridership projects and intensification of land uses
• Circulation concepts that incorporate pedestrians and propose multiple access routes within the half-mile area of influence
• Evaluation of joint development associated with the proposed Omnitrans Transcenter at the E Street Station (ongoing).
• Proposed a design vision that illustrates the unique opportunities of TOD development
• Proposed recommendations that better integrate local and regional bus service
• Included overall transit village development recommendations to provide guidance through the next planning phases