Station Area
The station is surrounded by many businesses including the Del Norte Marketplace shopping center with Walgreens, Orchard, IHOP, Dollar Tree, and Staples. For years a Target lay next door but was closed when the Great Recession economy was found not to support this old location and a new one located in the nearby Macdonald 80 Shopping Center. It has now been remodeled into a large Safeway supermarket with a small shopping strip and room reserved for high density dwellings. Del Norte Plaza lies catty-corner from the station and has small offices providing legal and dental services. On the north side of the station there is a motel, the Del Norte Place apartments, a Honda dealership, Starbucks, Macdonald's, Louisiana Fried Chicken, Home Depot and local restaurants. To the south of the station lay Playland-Not-At-The-Beach amusement park museum, a post office and the El Cerrito DMV. To the east lay single family homes up a sloping hill.
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