RNL, working with local developers Samuelson and Fetter, developed a comprehensive approach to the city’s request for transit-based economic development proposals, creating an economically and environmentally sustainable “new town” linking transit with new jobs and residences. The master plan focuses on three challenges to the area’s continued prosperity: the high cost of housing, need for internal job growth and increasing cost and difficulty of commuting. Drawing on the retail success of nearby “Old Town” Monrovia, this project will create a series of appropriately scaled commercial outlets fronting streets at and near the town center.