As a part of the Avondale Livable Cities Initiative (LCI), East Decatur Station embodies the plan that's been the focus of the City of Decatur for over two decades. The surrounding neighborhood enhances the vision of EDS, as well as the overall goals of the city.

...to achieve the image of a traditional and intimate small-town center while encouraging development of modern high-rise offices, a new hotel, new residential areas, and new commercial facilities. The underlying theme throughout is to maintain the tradition of humanity and warmth that has been Decatur's from the beginning of the town in the 1820's, the kind of small town in which people can walk downtown to shop and do business in an atmosphere of intimacy and friendliness, while at the same time providing for economic revitalization and expansion.
-Decatur Town Center Plan, 1982