If you want to read the entire thing, see above. Provides a urban enviroment that hopefully a generation of those growing up around it will come to recognize as "home" and not "scary place that I can not understand" when they journy into St. Louis county, not a long trip to downtown, very close to the airport.īetter architectural quality than most subdivionsĬommitment from the developer to adhere to the "new urban" masterplan laid out, and closely monitered by Andres Duany North of all the current Sprwal, therefore centralizing the west-plex better, and maybe thwarting sprawl expansion to the south suburban strip centerĬlose to Old Town and French town, some of the nicest 19th century restorations and enviroments in the Midwest It is really being laid out as well thought out new town enviroment with a balance of housing, retail, and schools and not some schlocky retail life style center with a couple of bogus so called "lofts" that has the same density as a typ. I hate sprawl and uncontrolled growth in outer regions, but I drove out to this project 2 weeks ago, and I think it is pretty nice and here is why. I say true, because it follows all of the planning elements of new urbanism and is not just new-old looking buildings, which so many of these projects turn into. It is actually a good development, and on of the largest "true" new urban developments masterplaned by the father of new urbanism himself. Charles City's French Victorian Main Street area.īelow are an architect's renderings of The New Town Gateway Commercial District.Īerial layout of The New Town Gateway Commercial District. Most of the homes and commercial buildings will be designed in the same architecture of St. Charles will have restaurants, salons, retail stores and more. Louis Mills, Riverport, Missouri Research Park, and Lambert International.Īt a cost of $1-billion dollars, it's the largest "new urbanism" development undertaken in Missouri to-date. Charles will be close to amenities such St. Charles will be a thriving "town" with more than 4,000 residences built in nine phases, with a carefully planned mix of homes in addition to a large town center and four neighborhood centers.
Located just off Highway 370, Missouri's High Tech Connector, New Town at St.
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