A new vision for downtown Huntersville, NC is becoming a reality with new commerce starting to emerge.
I am echoing the words from a recent article I read about how downtownHuntersville, NC will become a thriving, mixed-use town center with varied housing types, retailers, restaurants, offices and recreational and other public offerings.
Roads will be well-connected. Building design will be of the highest architectural quality.
Attractive lighting, street trees and signage will grace the area, and people will have several convenient ways to get around, such as trains, buses and walking.
That's all part of the vision for the downtown of 2030 that town planners handed to the Huntersville Planning Board last week.
With Discovery Place for Kidsto open in the Fall of 2010, downtown Huntersville is fast becoming a major destination in the Lake Norman region.
The Mama Mia Toorestaurant continues to operate in the now off-the-market Holbrook House, the 110-year-old, but not historic, home at the intersection of North Maxwell Street and Huntersville-Concord Road.
Across the street, in the one-story cottage formerly occupied by Toast restaurant, owners of the soon-to-open Café 100are refurbishing the interior and sprucing up the exterior. Café 100 is slated for a mid-June opening, and Toast will reopen in the yet-to-be-built second Town Center building a block away.
Finally, across the parking lot from Café 100, a collection of Western wear now sits on display in what most recently was the Old Fashioned Ice Cream shop. Talkers have yet to see the hat and boot boutique open for business, but they are intrigued and will keep checking. My inside source has told me that the Ice Cream place may reopen across the street due to the recent activity.
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Mike Carpino
Mike@LakeAndTown.com
704-301-9264
