Flowood Town Center Charrette

Mixed-use development holding charrette

FLOWOOD — A week-long planning workshop for Flowood Town Center, the first traditional neighborhood development (TND) to be built in Rankin County, will be held January 19-25 in Flowood at 10 Canebrake. The opening presentation will be given January 19 at 5:30 p.m., while the closing presentation January 25 at 5:30 p.m.

Flowood Town Center is being planned as both a residential and professional office town center for the City of Flowood. Situated in one of the fastest-growing counties in Mississippi, Flowood Town Center is located at the intersection of Lakeland Drive and Fannin Road directly south of the Dogwood Festival shopping center.

The Flowood Town Center property is comprised of approximately 140 acres including a 28-acre lake. The project is expected to be a $325-million development that will be completely built over 10 years with an estimated 650 residences and between 750,000 and one million square feet of commercial space.

The planning workshop, also called a "charrette," is being held by Neopolis Develpoment Group, LLC, the project's developer, and led by Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, the town planners. A charrette is an intensive planning session in which citizens, designers and others with a vested interest in the project collaborate on a vision for development.

The public is invited to both the opening and closing presentations