Having reviewed a plan last week for a 7-Eleven convenience store and post office to replace the long-empty West Coast Video store on East Nassau Street, Princeton’s site plan review advisory board (SPRAB) has passed the proposal on to the town’s Planning Board. The Board will likely consider the idea sometime in March.

The 7-Eleven, approximately 5,000 square feet, would have frontage on Nassau Street, while the post office, at about 3,500 square feet, would be located to the rear. The branch would replace the post office that has been a longtime fixture on Palmer Square, at a date to be announced. The 1930’s post office building was sold in December 2013 to a California-based company called LCOR Ventures, which has yet to reveal its future use.

“Once the new location is ready, we will ‘postalize’ that location and set a date to move the operations from Palmer Square,” said Ray V. Daiutolo, who is with the United States Post Office’s corporate communications, in an email on Tuesday. “As for Palmer Square, the property is under contract and the buyer is in due diligence. We will not move operations until the sale is final and the new site is ready. Generally these retail operational moves are done over a weekend so there is no break in service.”

The arrival of a 7-Eleven store in their neighborhood was opposed by several residents, who have expressed concerns about late-night noise and disturbances. Last December, Princeton Council unanimously adopted an ordinance that prohibits retail establishments touching residential zones from operating between 2 and 5 a.m., and the 7-Eleven must comply with that ruling.

The West Coast Video site has been vacant for about a decade. During that time, the Rite Aid drug chain leased the building, but never opened a store there. For Robert Bratman, whose family has owned the property since it was a furniture store several years ago, the review by SPRAB is an encouraging step. “It looks like both the 7-Eleven and the post office will be going in there,” he said Tuesday. “It now goes on to the Planning Board. Everything seems to be moving along.”

Mr. Bratman said the post office will be a retail store rather than a sorting facility, with ample parking. The parking lots would be restriped and repaved. “We want to pave the back lot,” he said. “The dicey part is that we don’t want to have paved it and then have the Planning Board say we have to do other things that require us to tear up that paving.”

Among SPRAB’s requests is a sidewalk from Princeton University’s Engineering Quad to the building, which Mr. Bratman said would be incorporated into the site. Bike racks would be installed, and LED lighting would reduce glare for nearby residents, he said. The building would be painted beige and have a small 7-Eleven sign in front. “They have a package they put together for nicer towns like Princeton,” he said.

As for the neighbors who are opposed to the convenience store idea, “I think they’re going to end up shopping there,” Mr. Bratman said. “It has healthier choices than the old 7-Elevens. It’s not the same store we grew up with. Time will tell, I guess.”