Palm City - Monday June 6, 2022: Mattamy Homes has announced that it will serve as the master developer of a Traditional Neighborhood Development [TND] named 'Newfield' that will be built in Martin County.
Site clearing for the planned development is expected to begin this summer in western Palm City between the Turnpike and I-95. Newfield will include 4,000 homes, a town center, and more than 2,300 acres of open space with trails, parks and a working farm.
The large expanse of land, previously known as Shadow Lake Groves, has been owned by the Kiplinger family for more than four decades. The project was conceived by Knight Kiplinger, an economic journalist who founded the Kiplinger financial media empire, now owned by Dennis Publishing.
“This has been a labor of love," said Knight Kiplinger in a news release announcing the selection of Mattamy Homes to develop the project. Mattamy Homes built the last section of the town of Celebration, in Osceola County. Mattamy Homes "is the right developer to bring Newfield to fruition," said Kiplinger.
Knight Kiplinger worked closely with Martin County residents to obtain commission approval in 2020, including proposing a whole new zoning category for the project. Newfield’s phase 1 encompasses 139 acres of which the first village will serve as the town center and include approximately 1,250 residential units, along with retail, restaurants, small-scale offices, recreational amenities, ten miles of trails and the county’s first gopher tortoise preserve.
The first homes should be ready for occupancy by early 2024 delivery. Kiplinger and members of his original planning team will work closely with Mattamy Homes in an advisory capacity.
Mattamy Homes is the largest privately owned homebuilder in North America. The company has built new communities throughout the U.S. and Canada for the past 40 years.
Newfield will embody the characteristics of a TND (Traditional Neighborhood Development) with an array of villages comprising homes in various sizes, styles and prices—mixed in a natural way with civic spaces such as parks, community gardens and schools, along with small-scale retail and office space. To promote walkability and community connection, Newfield neighborhoods will include rear-access garages and driveways in alleys behind homes, enabling residents to greet neighbors from the front porch and watch children play safely in the front yards.
“Newfield will introduce a new standard for TND and open-space preservation on the Treasure Coast,” said Dan Grosswald, Mattamy’s Southeast Florida Division President. It ill be "a multigenerational pedestrian-friendly community."
More than 70% of the total Newfield acreage – 2,300-plus acres – will remain open with a 70-acre working farm with livestock, a mix of wooded hiking, biking and equestrian trails, pasture, wetlands, lakes and the natural new Kiplinger Conservancy.