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M/I Homes rings a Bellington (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: June 17,2013

The plan goes like this: Let another homebuilding/development company do the local-government legwork, buy the property pre-entitled. Then, as another homebuilder/developer, put in the infrastructure, develop the lots and build the houses yourself.


Huntersville church renovation project goes on the town planning process docket (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: March 15,2013

HUNTERSVILLE — The entitlement process will begin April 1 for a church’s plan to rezone a 6.8-acre tract of land at 12340 Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road, at Reese Boulevard, just off Interstate 77. The Huntersville Planning Department has just scheduled the process for Calvary Church’s bid to rezone the land, which was made public in late [...]


Huntersville studies its side of Eastfield Road as the city looks at its side (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 22,2013

(See the main story here) HUNTERSVILLE – As the city of Charlotte keeps a keen eye on Eastfield Road ahead of the opening of Prosperity Church Road intersection with Interstate 485, the town of Huntersville is doing the same thing on its side of Eastfield, which runs along a major section of the border of [...]


13 to watch in ’13: REBIC and Raleigh (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 19,2013

You’re either fer it, or you’re agin it, as they say in the mountains of western North Carolina, and that’s true of possible legislation that REBIC will either back or oppose this year on the other end of the state in Raleigh, where the state legislature is in session.


Villages of Mecklenburg might receive final vote next week for expansion plans (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 11,2013

HUNTERSVILLE — A Cornelius developer hoping to make a major in-patient expansion to an existing out-patient facility in Huntersville is looking avoid a strikeout after making two whiffs. In the wake of two delays that set the project back six weeks, developer Villages of Mecklenburg’s plan to add separate assisted- and independent-living facilities to the site [...]


Bowman Group seeks to up density in final phase of Vermillion subdivision (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 6,2013

HUNTERSVILLE — A development firm wants to almost double the approved density of the final phase of a nearly built-out subdivision off Huntersville-Concord and Old Statesville roads. The request comes at a time when the town of Huntersville has demonstrated itself to be unfriendly to higher-density developments. The Bowman Group of Huntersville wants to re-subdivide [...]


Huntersville Market land-swap deal OK’d by planning board (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 30,2013

In 2008, the town approved the Huntersville Market retail project, on the Charlotte-Huntersville border at Prosperity Church and Eastfield roads. The project has taken five years to get going, in part because of the complexities that come with being in two municipalities.


Church seeks rezoning for renovation and occupancy of existing building in Huntersville (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 30,2013

HUNTERSVILLE – A church wants to rezone a 6.8-acre tract of land at 12340 Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road, at Reese Boulevard, just off Interstate 77, town planning department records say. Calvary Church wants to change zoning codes for the parcel from a general commercial classification to a highway commercial classification, which would allow the religious institution to [...]


JB Waddell to start Huntersville Harris Teeter renovations next month (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: January 30,2013

HUNTERSVILLE — JB Waddell Construction of Mint Hill is set to start next month a $1.4 million renovation project for the Harris Teeter store at the Northcross Shopping Center in Huntersville, at 9759 Sam Furr Road. The renovations are slated to take about three months to complete, according to Catherine Becker, a Harris Teeter spokeswoman. [...]


Huntersville Planning Board approves construction of a car-repair shop in plaza at Old Statesville and Sam Furr roads

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 27,2012

HUNTERSVILLE – In a 5-2 split vote, the town Planning Board on Dec. 18 approved  an alteration to the conditional rezoning and site plan of a commercial development at the busy intersection of Old Statesville and Sam Furr roads to allow the construction of an automobile service center. The vote by the appointed Planning Board means [...]