A 110-unit townhouse development, the largest in a recent wave of townhome construction, is coming to Dixie Highway near the downtown area sometime next year.

The development, known as Hammon Park, will be built on 3.7 acres on North Dixie Highway between Second and Third avenues north. Now the site consists of office and retail buildings, including one temporarily being used as a Goodwill store.

Hammon Park is the latest project by New Urban Communities, the Delray Beach-based firm responsible for Lyman Village in Lantana and a number of residential developments in Delray Beach, Boca Raton and Jupiter.

Construction of the three-story townhomes is expected to begin by mid-year, said Timothy Hernandez, a principal with New Urban Communities. The units are expected to be priced between $250,000 and $350,000.

The city's quaint, historic downtown was one of the main reasons the company decided to build in Lake Worth, Hernandez said. The project will allow more middle-class families to live within walking distance of downtown, he said.

"Instead of just relying on people coming from outside the town, you actually have people who live down there all year round," he said.

Also, residents don't have to travel by car to reach every destination, he said.

Sharon Jackson, the city's community development director, said Hammon Park is the largest townhome project the city has processed since she was hired more than a year ago.

"Lake Worth is a part of a regional development trend," she said. "Most of these developers have a number of projects in the pipeline in various places up and down the coast or out west."

Despite the scale of the project, Hernandez said he doesn't anticipate that traffic and parking will be a problem. The development will have 220 resident parking spaces in driveways and garages and 15 guest parking spaces, and 38 additional spaces will be created around the perimeter.

In keeping with local history, Hammon Park is named after H.F. Hammon, an Ohio native who filed the first formal homestead claim in the Lake Worth region in the 1870s. Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach also is named for him.

Hammon Park will join a number of other townhouse developments already under construction in the city, many along Federal and Dixie highways. Among them are the Courtyards of Lake Worth at College Park, a 49-unit development on Dixie Highway, and Pineapple Village, a 25-unit townhouse project on Federal Highway.

Other proposed projects in various stages of development are Parrot Cove, Pelican Village, Pickford Place, Kingdom Villas and Alliance.