Two other projects with major residential components are a bit further along.
Ten other courses also are being planned across the country, most with residential components, but more focused on the domestic market.
In some cases, mixed-use developers have placed commercial and residential components in separate condo associations to get around the restrictions.
Mr. Manewitz notes that environmental health standards are higher for developments that have residential components, and Mr. Walters says plans for Stafford Park will meet, or exceed, those standards.
The projects, larger than many suburban buildings, use "architectural techniques which break our buildings into smaller-scale residential components" to make them more acceptable to their neighbors, Mr. Daly said.
All three partners in Plaza are to be involved in the residential components, but Roseland will be managing partner for the 417-unit mid-rise building, the Highlands at Plaza Square, while Applied is to be the managing partner for the 350-unit high-rise, to be called the Metropolitan.
