National builder plans $500,000 homes on a wooded Lake Norman peninsula
A national builder received the Mooresville Planning Board’s backing late Tuesday for a 77-home community on a wooded Lake Norman peninsula.
Mattamy Homes sought a rezoning for its 34-acre Brillian Grove subdivision on McCrary Road.
The road is off N.C. 150 across from the longtime Big Daddy’s of Lake Norman restaurant.
The Planning Board voted 9-1 in favor of the rezoning after Mattamy Homes, based in Orlando, Florida, agreed to complete no more than 25 homes before N.C. 150 is widened.
Planning Board member Miko Red Arrow said he drove to McCrary Road on his way to work Tuesday morning, and “it was a train wreck trying to get back onto 150 going in either direction.”
The Planning Board is an advisory panel that makes rezoning recommendations to the Mooresville Board of Commissioners, which has final say. No date has been set for commissioners to consider the request.
Two-car garages, ‘high quality’ building materials
Brillian Grove homes would start at $500,000, according to Mattamy Homes.
The development would include 8.7 acres of open space and a 2.25-acre tree save area, according to the builder’s rezoning application. A 10-foot buffer of trees and other vegetation would extend along the northern and eastern sides of the property.
Homes would have two-car garages, and town planners want them to include at least one of these features: brick; stone; stucco; horizontal siding; wide trim wrapped windows; shake siding and board and batten siding at gables; roof overhangs on sides; and decorative items such as corbels in gables.
Mattamy Homes would widen McCrary Road at the entrance to the development and connect the road to the N.C. 150 widening project, Sarah Beason of Charlotte law firm Alexander Ricks said at July 30 Brillian Grove neighborhood meeting held by Mattamy Homes. Alexander Ricks is the legal consultant for the project.
The 16 residents at the meeting were primarily concerned about road access.
The Charlotte Observer reviewed a summary of the meeting filed with the Mooresville Planning and Community Development Department.
N.C. 150 is being widened at Lake Norman, with completion scheduled for 2030, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation.
Mattamy Homes expects to finish Brillian Grove the same year, according to the builder’s rezoning application.
The builder also will install a five-foot sidewalk and six-foot planting strip along the property’s frontage on McCrary Road, Beason added.
Homes would include “high-quality product and thoughtful architecture,” including “enhanced side elevation,” Jerry Whelan, Mattamy Homes vice president of land acquisition, told the July 30 gathering.
This story was originally published September 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM.