Charlotte developer can build mega-Lake Norman community near Interstate 77, board rules
Charlotte developer Mission Properties LLC received unanimous support from the Huntersville Board of Commissioners Tuesday night for a giant mixed-use community at Stumptown Road and U.S. 21 near Interstate 77.
Mission Stumptown will include 247 apartments in eight buildings, a six-building “commercial village,” 10-foot-wide multi-use trails and 16 “attainable housing” units, according to the developer’s rezoning application and company founder Jason McArthur.
“Attainable housing” is defined as affordable to teachers and police officers.
The apartment buildings will be four stories and commercial buildings two stories. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2027.
The location accommodates higher intensity uses and is just a half-mile walk from a Charlotte Area Transit System park-and-ride lot, Huntersville Planning Board members said when they voted 8-0 to recommend the project to the Board of Commissioners on March 25.
Mission Stumptown also is well designed, Huntersville Planning Director Brian Richards said.
“They’re going above and beyond the town’s requirements for basic architecture,” Richards told the Planning Board. “They’re offering a higher-level design ... Staff is in favor of this plan.”
‘This is good planning’
Mission Stumptown will include key fob-access buildings from one to four stories. Only 8% of the apartments will be three-bedroom, McArthur told the Planning Board. Sixty percent will be “studios, one-bedroom,” targeted to young adults in their first full-time jobs, he said.
“It would be a shame, in my view, for a site like this to be relegated to single-family bordered by an interstate and a major intersection,” McArthur said.
“This is what the site wants to be,” he said about his project. “This is good planning.”
Current Mission Properties projects include the 216-unit Evermore in Mooresville; 213-unit Bowery West near uptown Charlotte; the 73-unit Venue on South Main in Cornelius; the 156-unit, mixed-use Christenbury Apartments development in Concord; and the 204-unit Halcyon community on Daniel Island in Charleston, S.C.
This story was originally published April 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM.