Lake Norman Urbanization and Projects

[CLTdev18]

Looks like the beach resort in Huntersville is taking the next steps...

Developer files rezoning request for Huntersville beach resort-style project with hotel, homes

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/04/06/huntersville-beach-resort-development-rezoning.html?utm_source=st&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=BN&utm_content=ch&ana=e_ch_BN&j=31087847&senddate=2023-04-06

[KJHburg]

These Crystal Lagoons have been quite popular in Texas in terms of helping sell homes in community.  I saw one in Balmoral in Houston and it was great.   They have at least 2 open in Houston and building one near a large lake east of Dallas.  

https://balmoralhouston.com/

[KJHburg]

They are packing a lot into the old site of the Birkdale golf course driving range.  A 140 room Hilton Garden Inn hotel,  210 apartments and 45,000 sq ft of retail.  My photo coming out of Birkdale Village across the street of the site work being done today. 

https://www.gpartnerscre.com/birkdale-golf-club-mixed-use/

check out the site plan

https://www.gpartnerscre.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/GP-BirkdaleMktgFlyer-4_2020.pdf

Edited April 14, 2023 by KJHburg

[rancenc]

New retailers coming to Birkdale Village

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/04/21/birkdale-village-huntersville-stores-anthropologie.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_23&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

[KJHburg]

On 4/6/2023 at 1:31 PM, CLTdev18 said:

Looks like the beach resort in Huntersville is taking the next steps...

Developer files rezoning request for Huntersville beach resort-style project with hotel, homes

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/04/06/huntersville-beach-resort-development-rezoning.html?utm_source=st&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=BN&utm_content=ch&ana=e_ch_BN&j=31087847&senddate=2023-04-06

Here is the site plan with the details of this project.  A crystal lagoon with condos, townhomes, SF homes, a hotel, some retail.   Very ambitious project but I think it can work given it so much residential.  

https://www.huntersville.org/DocumentCenter/View/11077/Site-Plan?bidId=

[JacksonH]

19 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Here is the site plan with the details of this project.  A crystal lagoon with condos, townhomes, SF homes, a hotel, some retail.   Very ambitious project but I think it can work given it so much residential.  

https://www.huntersville.org/DocumentCenter/View/11077/Site-Plan?bidId=

I assume that red-roofed building in the foreground is the hotel?  They seem to be shamelessly copying the Hotel del Coronado.  It's fine to take inspiration from such an amazing architectural gem, but please just give credit where credit's due.

[KJHburg]

^^^ Yes it seems so.  

[CLTdev18]

Was anyone at the neighborhood meeting for Crystal Lagoon last night? I heard it lasted a few hours longer than expected, but I haven't had time to ask about the details. 

[KJHburg]

Birkdale Village gets a new 2 level brewery Suffolk Punch. 

""Suffolk Punch Brewing has expansion on tap with a new location planned for Birkdale Village in Huntersville.

The Charlotte-based brewery — which recently debuted its SouthPark location — expects to open a nearly 1,600-square-foot taproom in one of the standalone jewel-box spaces at Birkdale early next year. It will be located in an area known as The Grove, in the heart of the shopping complex.""

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/05/22/suffolk-punch-beer-birkdale-village-huntersville.html

 

[tozmervo]

Oh that's a really fun spot for a brewery. Birkdale has really done an impressive job of crawling its way from basic suburban mall into something of an actual town center.

[KJHburg]

5 hours ago, tozmervo said:

Oh that's a really fun spot for a brewery. Birkdale has really done an impressive job of crawling its way from basic suburban mall into something of an actual town center.

I think of 2 "urban centers" in the north Meck towns Birkdale Village and downtown Cornelius with its arts center, residential and retail.  Downtown Davidson is great but I think with the Cain Arts center downtown Cornelius is 2nd urban center of the North (Mecklenburg county) 

[jednc]

On 5/23/2023 at 9:48 AM, tozmervo said:

Oh that's a really fun spot for a brewery. Birkdale has really done an impressive job of crawling its way from basic suburban mall into something of an actual town center.

I've lived there for 20+ years and I can just about guarantee I've lived a more urban lifestyle than 99% of the people on this board. The improvements are fine, but it's always been pretty great.

[rancenc]

Atrium breaks ground for new hospital in Cornelius

https://businessnc.com/atrium-health-breaks-ground-on-northeast-charlotte-hospital/

[jednc]

On 5/24/2023 at 1:33 PM, jednc said:

I've lived there for 20+ years and I can just about guarantee I've lived a more urban lifestyle than 99% of the people on this board. The improvements are fine, but it's always been pretty great.

https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/huntersville/birkdale-village-a-blueprint-for-urban-development-national-organization-says/

[rancenc]

A lot of proposed projects that never got off the ground in Cornelius based on this article!

https://www.corneliustoday.com/developments-left-undone-cornelius-could-be-much-busier-than-it-is/

[KJHburg]

worst kept secret in the commercial real estate world Apple files permits for it is new 9800 sq ft store at Birkdale Village in the old Pier One space.

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/06/22/apple-store-birkdale-village-huntersville-tech.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Charlotte AE AD TEST (6/6) 2023-06-22&utm_term=daily_update_charlotte#:~:text=The town's planning,of the exterior.

""The town's planning department confirmed today that a permit for an Apple Store there has been filed and approved. The Birkdale Village location stands to replace the Apple Store that abruptly shuttered at Northlake Mall earlier this year. The iPhone maker at the time said it was preparing to open another store in the Charlotte area.

Construction has kicked off on the project at 8805 Townley Road — formerly home to Girl Supply and Pier One Imports. Mecklenburg County permits show the project is valued at $8.6 million.

Birkdale Village owner North American Properties is listed as the owner on the permit, which describes only retail store improvements. Roughly 9,800 square feet is to be renovated, with landlord improvements to prepare the space for a new tenant layout and modification of the exterior. ""

 

 

[TheOneRJ]

Birkdale is really pulling some big deal tenants lately. This store will be 3k square ft bigger than the Northlake store was too. 

[Nathan2]

And Here is what is will look like. 

[go_vertical]

22 hours ago, KJHburg said:

The iPhone maker at the time said it was preparing to open another store in the Charlotte area.

 

 

What is everyone's best guess as to where this other store might go?  Do you think Apple would consider Uptown/South End too close to the Southpark location?  Other than center city I can only think they may be considering the river district once that gets really up and running several years from now.

 

Edit: NVM, it just hit me that this one in Brikdale IS the other location in reference to the closed Northlake store.

 

Edited June 23, 2023 by go_vertical

[KJHburg]

1 hour ago, go_vertical said:

What is everyone's best guess as to where this other store might go?  Do you think Apple would consider Uptown/South End too close to the Southpark location?  Other than center city I can only think they may be considering the river district once that gets really up and running several years from now.

 

Edit: NVM, it just hit me that this one in Brikdale IS the other location in reference to the closed Northlake store.

 

Yes this is Apple talking about the new Birkdale store after they closed Northlake.  They have seem to slowed their Apple stores not sure if we will get another one anytime soon but I know couple years ago they were looking in southend.  

[SydneyCarton]

I see that Joey Logano’s huge new development in Huntersville was approved too.

https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/joey-logano-backed-development-bringing-modern-design-to-huntersville/amp/

 

Huntersville has always been one of my favorite parts of the Charlotte area, and the real estate values are really good compared to South Charlotte.

 

Edited June 23, 2023 by SydneyCarton

[SydneyCarton]

I liked this project.  Unfortunately, it seems doomed.
 

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article276805991.html

 

 

Edited June 28, 2023 by SydneyCarton

[SydneyCarton]

Unfortunately, the new plan removes all of the retail, among other things.

“A Lake Norman developer has significantly trimmed his planned $800 million mixed-used community in Huntersville after months of withering criticism that the project is too massive.

Lagoona Bay Beach Club will no longer include a hotel, convention center, restaurants and other businesses, developer Jake Palillo said on Facebook.

Palillo originally planned a 200-room hotel, a 36,000-square-foot convention center and 210,000 square feet of retail space.

Palillo said he cut the number of homes from 1,182 to 692 and the size of his recreational lagoon from 10 to 8 acres. He removed “all highway commercial” from his plans, “and the 412 condos are gone,” he added.

“Everything else within the Beach club will be staying the same,” Palillo said on Facebook. “We will have 227 single-family and 65 villa/patio homes.”

The part of his property north of Sam Furr Road will have 90 detached patio homes, apartment buildings cut from four to three stories and the number of units from 320 to 300, he said.

The beach club will remain membership-only, he said. But with fewer homes for sale under his latest plan, he expects more memberships to be available to people outside the development “in the surrounding communities.

On Facebook Wednesday night, Palillo told The Charlotte Observer he cut back on the project “because the town board felt it was too much.”

“It’s not a ‘great project’ anymore, but it’s still a really good one,” Palillo said.

By a 6-to-2 vote June 27, the Huntersville Planning Board urged the town Board of Commissioners to reject a rezoning for the 270-acre project off exit 25 of Interstate 77.

The tract is more than five times the size of Huntersville’s iconic Birkdale Village mixed-use community off the other side of the exit. It’s the last large tract along N.C. 73 (Sam Furr Road) in Huntersville that can be developed, Palillo told the Planning Board.

The development is out of character with the area and would further burden already packed roads, the Planning Board agreed.The development would be “a total transformation from a rural corridor into a fully intensified one,” board member Stephen Swanick said in recommending the rezoning be denied. “This is a total revolutionary departure from the 2040 plan,” he said, referring to Huntersville’s long-term growth and development plan.

Palillo said he expects his revisions to delay the Board of Commissioners July 17 vote by several months.

 

 

Edited July 6, 2023 by SydneyCarton

[KJHburg]

Went up to "downtown" Huntersville aka Birkdale Village (and it is a social district itself)  the new Cheesecake Factory is almost ready and the Apple store is under construction.  Note: Katie bar the door if you have an appointment in evening at the Apple store as it is between the new Cheesecake Factory and Bonefish Grill)  Parking is going to be an issue but not if people will walk from the fringes.  Lots of new stores coming soon the reimagined Birkdale Village is getting so much better.  Foxcroft Wine is surprisingly large space.  

Apple store in the blue wrap. 

 

[SydneyCarton]

Birkdale Village is one of my favorite spots in the Charlotte area (for that matter, in the whole state).  It’s beautiful.