Huntersville NC Real Estate,  Cornelius NC Real Estate,  Davidson NC Real Estate, Charlotte NC Real Estate

Growth really started picking up around the late 1980's when IBM moved into the University area of Charlotte!  These three towns have been transformed from small dots on the map, to a much sought after living environment! Just thirty minutes outside of Charlotte City Center, with all the amenities of city life, from business parks to bistros, housing to health care. Each cities down town section still offers the quaint feel of the old ways, while the newer areas are growing at a record pace. 

In 1990, 3,000 people called Huntersville home. But proximity between the Queen City and Lake Norman, lower home prices, less traffic and quiet communities has catapulted Huntersville’s population to more than 30,000 today. The transit line is scheduled to continue its way up to Huntersville to help offset some of the traffic woes felt by the daily Uptown commuters. I-77 carries the brunt of the load. Exit 18 is the University
exit, five miles later is your first exit for Huntersville, exit 23, then exit 25. One bad crash, and you are kind of stuck in traffic for a while! The next exit is 28 dropping you off in Cornelius at The Peninsula, and then comes exit 30...Davidson.  Exit 25 and Exit 36 (Mooresville) will help carry you around to the west side of the lake. I-485 should help ease the burden when it completes its intersection with I-77 (projected for 2010) Currently, you can access I-85 from it.

Although much of the retail and residential areas in Huntersville are new, the town also has numerous historic sites within a five-mile drive of Beatties Ford Road. Hopewell Presbyterian Church, for instance, dates to the 1740s and features 200-year-old stone walls around its cemetery. The Hugh Torance House and Store, started in the 1770s, is the oldest surviving store site in North Carolina. The two-room log cabin also sat on a cotton plantation and was used as a school for young ladies, slave quarters and an overseer’s house.

Each April, the Loch Norman Highland Games celebrate the area’s Scots-Irish heritage with athletic competitions, bagpipe music, dancing, tartan parades and historical demonstrations. Another piece of preserved Huntersville is Latta Plantation Nature Preserve, the county’s largest green space with hiking trails, picnic shelters, a nature center, an equestrian center, boating and fishing on Mountain Island Lake and the Carolina Raptor Center, which rehabilitates and releases injured birds of prey. Mountain Island Lake is on the west side of Charlotte and is our main water source. This area is just started to feel some growth...and growing pains.

Of the three North Mecklenburg towns, Davidson has been most resistant to Lake Norman growth. Davidson grew by just over 3,000 residents. Today the small college town has just over 7,500 residents. Planners have struggled to manage growth and provide services while preserving the warmth and small-town charm that attracts new citizens. Still a college town that locals often call a village, Davidson embraces a Main Street, know-your-neighbors way of life. Many folks have lived here for decades, while others have moved here for the small-town atmosphere, tranquility and easygoing pace. The town is very strict with its zoning regulations, and that has contributed to its slow growth. The town is named for Gen. William Lee Davidson, a local Revolutionary War hero who died in the battle of Cowans Ford in 1781 and the namesake of Davidson College, the town’s small liberal arts school founded in 1837 by the Presbyterians.

While Huntersville and Cornelius experienced massive growth in the 1990s, area residents can now take advantage of the $56 million Presbyterian Hospital Huntersville, on N.C 73 at I-77.  Newcomers can choose from a broad range of home styles and prices in gated communities, family-friendly neighborhoods with sidewalks and bike trails, waterfront condominium communities with boat slips or spacious luxury apartments. Huntersville also has a new family fitness center and outdoor fun park where kids can slide through tubes, spray water cannons and climb sprinkler-filled jungle gyms set inside a pool.

Many neighborhoods offer private golf facilities and amenities such as a residents’ club or country club that offers swimming, tennis and dining facilities. These include The Peninsula Club in Cornelius, River Run Country Club in Davidson, and NorthStone Club in Huntersville.

Neo-traditional neighborhoods sometimes referred to as “new urban design,” have recently become a trend in the Huntersville/Cornelius area. By combining homes, shops, service businesses and restaurants in a self-contained community linked by sidewalks and open green space, they offer a fun new twist on the village concept.

Birkdale Village (winning well deserved design concept awards) is located on Sam Furr Road in Huntersville. It includes apartments and offices above boutiques, restaurants and national retailers such as Williams Sonoma, Gap, Talbot’s and Ann Taylor Loft. Live bands play on warm-weather weekend evenings, and parents from around the lake bring children to splash and play in the village square fountain. The Nantucket-style shopping center’s quaint Main Street is lined with locally owned stores, a pizza parlor, ice cream shop, sushi bar, wine room, plenty of good restaurants, and a popular 16-screen stadium-seating movie theater, bookstores and a variety of clothing shops.

Above the retailers, The Apartments at Birkdale Village feature 45 different floor plans among 320 units, with everything from a loft to a three-bedroom with garage. Birkdale Golf Club, part of a 600-home master-planned community in Huntersville that includes a residents’ club, has one of the best public courses in the state.

As you learn more about Charlotte you will notice that the northern sections have some strong similarities to the southern sections of Charlotte. SE Charlotte near the Arboretum, is very much like Huntersville, exit 25. Weddington, in Union County, also has strict zoning and like Davidson, was a small, sought after horse community. North Charlotte is not inexpensive, but the land is more plentiful than south Charlotte, therefore, you can find the exact same home, same builder in North Charlotte for tens of thousands of dollars less than one that you find in South Charlotte. And the boom, goes on!

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