The Town Center has been thoughtfully planned and designed to provide many choices for living a sustainable, convenient and quality lifestyle while also helping to reduce minimize our human footprint on the surrounding pristine environment. The design approach is based upon principles of a movement in sustainable development called New Urbanism, outlined further below.

In the early 1950’s, Americas love affair with the automobile and the desire to accommodate its daily use became the primary design criteria for planning our towns and cities. Shortly thereafter,3 car garages facing the neighborhood street and often dominating the architecture became the common place. The perception from the curb was that cars lived in the house, not people. The new found inexpensive mobility that automobiles provided encouraged development into far reaching rural places of the American landscape. Soon suburban sprawling development that automobiles allowed unknowingly and slowly eroded the quality of life for many Americans and diminished more of our countries scenic and natural resources than necessary. Meanwhile our dependence on petroleum and energy was growing with a ravenous appetite. The environmental impacts of carbon emissions associated with burning fossil fuels to run our autos are not only widely held to contribute to poor air quality and global warming but there was another profound impact. Designing to accommodate its use was fleecing the charm and ‘sense of place’ out of our communities. Soon goliath shopping malls were popping up in every community competing with the local proprietors. The sense of community, the corner soda fountain and knowing your neighbors daughter’s birthday were the casualties of 7 lane highways and super big box national retailers. Many acknowledged the environmental and sociological impacts of the vehicular oriented approach and planners and architects set out to remedy the problem. New Urbanism is the term used to describe the design approach for which to solve these growing problems and concerns and is the basis for which the Town Center was conceived. New Urbanism principles focus not only on green solutions, but foster a pattern language that energizes and compels the human spirit, not the automobile.

The Town Center is the place where your mom and dad may have lived their dream to build their business, where people will gather to celebrate their traditions and where your neighbor knows your daughter’s birthday.