Pocket neighborhoods include shared open space, which could be a garden courtyard, a series of joined backyards or a common walkway. And the houses will have front porches and detached garages. They will be about eight to 10 feet apart from one another. The houses will have characteristics not currently found in Mequon.

Zabjek said the sale prices will be around $500,000. The three-bedroom houses will be around 2,000 to 2,200 square feet. Additional houses will be rolled out according to demand. 12.Ĭonstruction of the first row of five houses is to begin by April, Zabjek said, with completion by the end of this year. Lakeside's pocket neighborhood would have 23 houses under a proposal that is to be considered for final Common Council zoning approval on Feb. Lakeside plans to build the houses as part of the Foxtown mixed-use development.įoxtown will include a restaurant, two craft breweries, additional office and retail space, and 96 apartments south of West Mequon Road, between the railroad tracks and North Buntrock Avenue. 'They really like neighborhoods where they don't have to jump into the car and go wherever,' said Zabjek, whose firm is developing the Mequon pocket neighborhood. It's happening because there's a growing demand for smaller, upscale houses in walkable areas, said Tom Zabjek, president of Lakeside Development Co. 'It's basically recreating Shorewood or the east side of Milwaukee,' said John Norquist, former Milwaukee mayor and former president of Congress for the New Urbanism.īut now that old idea, with a contemporary twist, is coming to affluent, newer communities like Mequon. It's how houses were often built in Milwaukee and other older cities throughout the country before auto-based suburbs began growing rapidly following the end of World War II. Pocket neighborhoods have a small group of houses that feature front porches, and small yards, to encourage residents to socialize together.

Homes for sale in pocket neighborhoods