In 1986, the owners of an aging strip mall on Cape Cod in Massachusetts held a design charrette with the community to determine a direction for the property. Since then, the developers of the site have been realizing their vision of a new mixed-use community following the traditional New England town style. The development currently contains 77 homes, with plans for additional residential development underway, though mired by controversy.

• Sightline, “We Could Fit Lots of Homes in the Middle of Old Strip Malls,” 
• Metropolitan Area Planning Council and Congress for New Urbanism, “Reclaiming the Strip Mall: A Common Suburban Form, Transformed,”
• Cape Cod Times, “Mashpee Commons will still try to create housing, despite partnership agreement dissolving” (November 10, 2021)