Town Centers are the new McMansions

7 years ago, Town Centers became the new McMansions - the housing type of the future - more density, more government influence and more public-private real estate deals where only private developers belong.  Government-planned housing for all.  Were the residents of Milwaukie aware of and did they  approve of the master plan for their downtown?

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Daily Journal of Commerce:  By: kennedy.smith in Construction April 6, 2007

DJC: That leads me to my next question. Town centers seem like the next big development. Metro is embracing them. Builders are building them. Is it going to get to a point where it’s almost like McMansions? Like McTown centers?

[Tom] Kemper: Well, I guess there is an element of McMansions at Villebois (Costa Pacific’s planned subdivision in Wilsonville), but you also are going to have a much higher density than the normal McMansion deal. You’ll have town homes. You’ll have condos and rental too. Look at Orenco Station that Costa Pacific did. When Villebois gets built out it’ll resemble more like Orenco than a suburban deal.