Apartments and condos are also popping up in the area, making Stonecrest a mixed-use community.

Esplanada will provide shopping, living, working and leisure functions integrated into a mixed-use urban community.

"We are becoming more like Times Square North and less like a mixed-use residential community."

It uses existing infrastructure, is built near public transportation so that people will need to drive cars less and creates walkable, mixed-use communities.

But like any other mixed-use community, tensions are beginning to erupt among the residents and business owners.

The mixed-use community will have one residential community and the other two which include retail, commercial, and entertainment amenities.

It was planned as a mixed-use community with office, residential and retail buildings.

Badger Creek, a mixed-use community is developing housing and business space for those who wish to live and work in a rural environment.

The mixed-use community will have residential and commercial space as well as schools, clinics and parks.

Active development of a similar mixed-use community is scheduled to begin in early 2007.