Media Coverage

MetroPulse
Jan 05, 2006
Suburban Urban

Northshore Town Center may never be much like an actual town- or, for that matter, a center of anything discernible. But in 2006, the development on the northeast corner of Northshore Drive and Pellissippi Parkway will become at least an unusual neighborhood of houses close together, just as they were in the old days, with front porches and alleys. It's promised to be a neighborhood where most of life's essentials are in walking distance. It has created a stir of interest from prospective residents, and construction of several homes by local homebuilder Mike Stevens should be underway as we speak.

Retail has been slow to commit, but developer James Doran Co. of Charleston, S.C., says they'll begin building retail space, of old-fashioned brick buildings, in early 2006, confident that tenants will follow. Real-estate developers all over the area will watch with interest, trying to discern if we'll all be living like that when gasoline hits $20 a gallon.