Southeast Real Estate Business
May 2004
Mixed-Use Spotlight

Northshore Town Center
Knoxville , Tennessee

Northshore Town Center is a 141-acre mixed-use development on what is known locally as the old Sterchi farm, located at Northshore Drive and Pellissippi Parkway in Knoxville, Tennessee. The $180 million New Urbanism development will include single-family homes, townhomes, retail shops, entertainment venues, offices and a hotel.

Charleston, South Carolina-based James Doran Company is developing the project, which will feature an architectural style similar to the historic districts of Charleston .

The center's Main Street will have two-story buildings featuring ground-floor retail with offices and residences on the upper levels. The development will feature 300,000 square feet of office space; 225,000 square feet of big box retailer space; 175,000 square feet of small shop space; a 65,000-square-foot, 16-screen theater; 40,000 square feet of restaurants; 450 apartment units; 150 townhomes; and 120 single-family lots.

Construction will begin this year with retail portions to be constructed first. Companies on the project team include Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon (civil engineering/traffic engineering); Design: Clark (a graphic design company); Design Works (land planning); Gibson & Associates (residential architect); Walter M. Kulash and Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart (traffic engineering); The Housing Studio (residential architect); Randall-Paulson Architects (project architect); and RTKL (architect).