The New Town at Liberty

If you've ever driven down A Hwy in Liberty, you'll find a winding blacktop road surrounded by lush green countryside and rolling hills, but that's all about to change in the next few years due to a new large scale development known as "New Town at Liberty".

"The New Town at Liberty is a very unique and exciting concept," says Greg Whittaker, president of Whittaker Homes. "We think that it is important to bring together the planners, designers, developers, builder, government officials, business owners, and the public to ensure that this project truly reflects the views of the community as a whole."

Leading the way will be the City of Liberty town planners, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, one of the nation’s foremost planners of new urbanism developments. The company is responsible for more than 250 of these communities throughout the country, including the famed Seaside, FL, and Kentlands, MD.

The New Town at Liberty will be one of the area’s largest developments, with homes for every demographic and lifestyle. "However, what sets New Town at Liberty apart is more than numbers," according to Whittaker. "This community, close to Historic Liberty, will be a return to the neighborhoods of yesterday, where residents can walk to the park, the store, school or amphitheater along pedestrian-friendly streets. Even the architecture of the single-family homes, row houses, and cottages will be in a traditional regional architectural style, also reminiscent of earlier days."

Whittaker Homes, developer, has proven itself with the success of The New Town at St. Charles near St. Louis Missouri. This traditional neighborhood development has been the best-selling community in 2005 and 2006 out of over 18,600 developments in 16 states. In fact, cities and developers travel from around the company and the world to tour New Town and gain valuable insight.

Included in the charrette team are Andres Duany, DPZ project director; Marina Khoury, DPZ project manager; Tim Busse, Whittaker Homes architect; Jim Cannady and Hal Bartch, engineers with Pickett, Ray & Silver; Bruce Corban and Garth Goode, urban designers with Corban & Goode; and local designers Kevin Klinkenberg and Brian Hendrickson with 180 Degrees Design Studio.

For information on the New Town at Liberty visit http://www.newtownatliberty.com

For more information about other similar communities that are following this same style of planning and building, visit The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) website at http://www.cnu.org The CNU is the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl.