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The Pleasant Ridge market study has been sent by the Pleasant Ridge Community Council's (PRCC) Neighborhood Committee to the City's Department of City Planning for review.

The market feasibility study was prepared by Kinzelman Kline & Gossman as an update to the neighborhood's 1999 strategic plan.

The document is meant to help guide future business development, tenanting and recruitment for the neighborhood, specifically within the Montgomery/Ridge/Woodford "triangle" and along the Montgomery Road corridor.

Residents, business owners and stakeholders were all part of the planning process, which began in 2005.

Among some of the study's ideas:

* A village green with outdoor dining or a large, centralized office or residential building for the "triangle"
* Market-rate housing above ground-floor retail along Montgomery Road
* Development of medium- to high-density residential or a retirement community on the Ridge Club site
* A performing arts venue
* Inter-connected public parking, surface or decked
* Mixed-use infill
* Single-family detached homes on scattered sites
* Relocation and/or expansion of UDF and Mullaney's
* Redevelopment of Burger King site

A report from the planning department is due by the middle of March.

Katharine Powell, one of the vice presidents of the PRCC, estimates that the finalized plan will appear before City Council for adoption in June.