WELCOME TO HUNTERSVILLE

At a crossroads between urban and rural areas, Huntersville, North Carolina is currently the 46th fastest growing suburb in the United States - and for good reason. With countless amenities and citizens that welcome you with small-town friendliness, Huntersville is a great place to live and work.

Ten miles from Charlotte, North Carolina, a short drive to Lowe’s Motor Speedway and a few hours to either the mountains or beaches, Huntersville is located along the shores of Lake Norman. The lake atmosphere, with 520 miles of shoreline, enhances the open spaces and rural vistas Huntersville works so diligently to maintain.

Money magazine recognized the town as the 76th Best Place to Live in America in 2005 and as one of the top 20 places in North Carolina to retire, both of which came on the heels of the town’s identification as one of America’s Top-Rated Smaller Cities for 2004-2005 by Grey House Publishing.

 Whether you are a current citizen or prospective industry or visitor considering locating here, let us know what we can do for you.  Huntersville has a strong historical background that meshes well with our progress. Town of Huntersville citizens value the past, while working hard to prepare for the future.

Golfing, Upscale Shopping and Family Entertainment

Huntersville offers a variety of fun leisure activities on water and land. Birkdale, a master-planned golf community with an award-winning Arnold Palmer golf course and Residents Club with swimming pool and clubhouse, tennis courts and wellness facility, is a popular destination for many Huntersville residents and visitors. Across the street from the golf course and clubhouse is Birkdale Village, an urban village neighborhood of luxurious apartments overlooking cafes shops, restaurants, and entertainment, including a movie theatre. Birkdale Village is a great place to take a stroll, join friends for drinks, shop for the afternoon, or see a movie.

Discovery Place KIDS, set to open in Huntersville in 2009, is an innovative model in children’s museums developed by Discovery Place, Inc. Discovery Place KIDS will offer unique opportunities for interactive learning for children birth through second grade. At Discovery Place KIDS, children and their caregivers will be provided with opportunities to create a masterpiece, imagine they are a community helper, experiment with movement, construct a building, and much more. Visit discoveryplacekids.org to take a virtual tour.

Business Casual (and Sophisticated)

In Huntersville, business is definitely more casual with the beautiful lake surroundings, but it’s also sophisticated. A variety of business parks like North Mecklenburg Industrial Park and The Park, Huntersville, offer prospective manufacturers, distributors and office tenants options just minutes from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Uptown Charlotte and Lake Norman in a region with a highly skilled workforce and incredible lakefront quality of life.

Joe Gibbs Racing Inc., located at Exit 23 from I-77, is one of many successful businesses in Huntersville and offers visitors the opportunity to visit their race shop weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Joe Gibbs, NASCAR team owner and head coach of the Washington Redskins, also lives in the area. With Tony Stewart’s NASCAR Cup Series championships in 2005 and 2002 and Bobby Labonte’s title run in 2000, Joe Gibbs has three NASCAR championship rings. He also took the Redskins to the Super Bowl four times and earned three Super Bowl rings. Gibbs started his career as a NASCAR team owner in 1991.

Like Joe Gibbs Racing, companies like Max Daetwyler Corp. and Siegling America LLC make the local economy even stronger. Max Daetwyler Corporation, headquartered in Huntersville, provides sales, installation and service for North American printing companies. Founded in 1943 in Switzerland, the company has operations in 14 locations and employs over 850 people worldwide. Max Daetwyler services the printing industry with a range of equipment for various printing applications. Forbo Siegling LLC is a worldwide leader in technology, quality and service in the conveyor and processing, timing, power transmission, folder and carrier belts industries. The company’s high-efficiency flat belts and conveyor belts are used by a variety of industries, including the food, tobacco, textile, printing, sports and leisure, and logistics/airports industries.

Along with several industrial and office park options, Huntersville offers multiple sites ranging in available acreage for future development. Huntersville Town Center, a new 48,000 square foot mixed-use office, retail and residential development planned for downtown Huntersville, will also be the home of the new Discovery Place KIDS museum.

Bryton, a 450-acre mixed use community currently in the final planning stages, will be a transit-oriented development incorporating industrial (up to one million square feet), office (up to one million square feet), retail and residential (up to 3,000 single-family and multifamily units) development in a master planned environment. At the center of the development will be the rail transit station on the north line of the commuter rail, which will provide passenger rail service between Uptown Charlotte and the towns of Cornelius, Davidson and Huntersville. Site development at Bryton is underway. Construction of the first industrial building is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2008 with completion anticipated mid-2009.

Other notes of Huntersville's rich cultural and historical heritage:

• Battle of Cowan's Ford fought on February 1, 1781 - This was the last battle of the American Revolution to be fought in Mecklenburg County.
• General William Lee Davidson - Revolutionary War officer who was killed at the Battle of Cowan's Ford. He is buried at Hopewell Presbyterian Church.
• Rural Hill Farm settled in 1760 - It is the oldest and largest publicly owned historic site in Mecklenburg County.
• Torrance Store is the oldest store in the state of North Carolina dated 1805.

 A Growing Town

In 1990, 3,014 people called Huntersville home. Proximity between the Queen City and the lake, lower home prices, less traffic and quiet communities catapulted Huntersville's population in 2000 to 24,960, an amazing 728 percent. Today, approximately 40,000 people call Huntersville home.

This tremendous population growth has fueled a booming real estate and homebuilding industry. Newcomers can choose from a broad range of home styles and prices family-friendly neighborhoods with sidewalks and bike trails, waterfront condominium communities with boat slips, or spacious luxury apartments.

Huntersville operates a Parks and Recreation department that organizes classes, special events and athletics for all ages. Huntersville also has a family fitness center and outdoor fun park where kids can slide through tubes, spray water cannons and climb sprinkler-filled jungle gyms inside a pool.

Although much of the retail and residential areas in Huntersville are new, the town also has 18 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 in Mecklenburg County. Latta Plantation Nature Preserve is the county's largest green space with hiking trails, a nature center, an equestrian center, boating and fishing on Mountain Island Lake, and a unique raptor center that rehabilitates and releases injured birds of prey.

The town also boasts of world-class retail stores. Birkdale Village on Sam Furr Road includes apartments and offices above boutiques, restaurants and national retailers such as Williams Sonoma, Gap 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.

Aside from great neighborhoods, countless amenities and its friendly small town atmosphere, Huntersville also provides access to the haven of Lake Norman. This breathtaking 32,500-acre man-made lake with 520 miles of shoreline provides scenic vistas, recreation and wildlife for all to enjoy.

Huntersville is also just 10 minutes from Charlotte and only hours from mountain and beach resorts.