About the KB Advisory Group 2021 Market Study for the City of Forest Park, Georgia's Downtown Master Plan LCI Study Update

Downtown Forest Park LCI

2020 Forest Park LCI Context Map showing the LCI Study Area

Downtown Forest Park LCI

Location: Clayton County, GA

 

Client: The City of Forest Park, GA, with the support of the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC)

 

Lead Consultant: Lord Aeck Sargent (LAS)

 

Services provided: Market Analysis and Real Estate Demand Forecast

The KB Advisory Group (KB) 2021 Market Study for the Downtown Forest Park LCI

In 2020, the City of Forst Park in Clayton County, GA, received a grant from the Atlanta Regional Commission. The award was for a study of the City’s Main Street Overlay District. The Downtown Forest Park LCI effort would update the previous Livable Centers Initiative Study (LCI). The update includes a five-year development and implementation strategy that capitalizes on vacant properties and creates retail, residential, and commercial development access.

 

Cover of KB's 2021 Market Study for the Forest Park LCI

 

A Perspective

Like the rest of the nation, the Atlanta region is experiencing societal shifts. Many factors impact the housing and real estate market in Forest Park. In 2020 and 2021, those included the following:

 

  • The rise of smaller, non-traditional households
  • Post-Great Recession Economics
  • Post-COVID Impacts

 

The role of KB Advisory Group (KB) was to determine the current local real estate market trends and future needs that could be met in the Downtown LCI Study Area.

 

Market Analysis and Real Estate Demand Forecast

KB was the market study and implementation funding lead. The firm assisted Forest Park by comprehensively looking at the factors impacting real estate supply and demand and identifying Downtown’s development potential. KB also helped the LCI consultant team develop catalyst project concepts and an implementation strategy.

 

KB’s Scope for the Downtown Forest Park LCI

The analysts at KB collected and examined existing economic, demographic, and real estate market conditions over the next decade. They defined a Forest Park LCI Market Area, the geography expected to generate support for new real estate. Then the firm assessed and characterized the commercial and residential uses and development patterns in the LCI Study Area and the surrounding Market Area.

 

Page from KB's 2021 Forest Park LCI Market Study showing the generational makeup of the Market Area

 

KB focused on answering questions about opportunities in the LCI Study Area. The firm provided a forward-looking assessment of how best to achieve Forest Park’s goals for the area. KB’s data-driven analytical evaluation helps leadership make appropriate decisions regarding the future development of the Downtown area.

 

The firm recognizes that societal shifts, new demographics, transportation, communication, and lifestyle patterns lead to transformative change. That change impacts the operation of our economies and communities. KB’s work on this LCI can inform land use and development policy decisions in the coming decade.

 

Live link to the June 2021 Draft LCI Report for Forest Park