Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is a municipality with a

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is a municipality with a whole lot of New Urbanism going on, supported by public officials and developers. The city has four projects of note in the early stages of construction: Cannery Square, the redevelopment of downtown industrial sites totaling 14 acres into a small neighborhood; Smith’s Crossing, a 1,841-unit traditional neighborhood development (TND) by Veridian Homes (the region’s largest home builder, also building Cannery Square); Providence, a 451-unit TND by Providence LLC; and Liberty Square, a 680-unit TND by local developer Herman Kraus. In addition, city officials adopted a 1,600-acre new urban regulating plan for developing areas of the city’s west side. Drawn by architects RTKL, the plan will be used to guide development. The city will be actively involved in building the mixed-use core envisioned by the architects, according to Scott Kugler, director of planning and economic development for Sun Prairie.