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Mountain Island Lake

Mountain Island Lake is a roughly 3,281-acre reservoir on the Catawba River in the far northwest corner of Charlotte, created in 1924 when a predecessor of Duke Energy dammed the river to power the Mountain Island Hydro…

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Iron District

The Iron District is Charlotte's biggest development bet in a generation, a 55-acre mixed-use project rising on the site of the old Charlotte Pipe and Foundry plant, which cast iron pipe on this ground for more than a…

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Highland Creek

Highland Creek is the biggest master-planned community in northeast Charlotte, more than 4,000 homes spread across dozens of named “villages” in the University City area, all built around its own 18-hole golf course.…

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Elizabeth

Elizabeth got its start in 1891 as Charlotte's second streetcar suburb, laid out in five subdivisions just east of the young city center along a trolley line that reached full service by 1902. The neighborhood takes its…

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Eastland Yards

Eastland Yards is Charlotte's answer to the question every mid-sized American city eventually faces: what do you do with a dead mall? Eastland Mall opened on Central Avenue in east Charlotte in 1975 and thrived for two…

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Avenue Condominiums

Avenue Condominiums is a 36-story high-rise at 210 North Church Street in Uptown Charlotte's Fourth Ward, one of the tallest and most actively traded residential towers in the city's Center City core. Completed in 2007,…

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Winthrop Heights

Winthrop Heights is one of Rock Hill's established, close-in neighborhoods, a grid of brick ranches and traditional single-family homes built mostly in the 1960s and 1970s just northeast of Winthrop University. Streets…

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White Hall

White Hall is an established Steele Creek neighborhood in southwest Charlotte, built mostly in the mid-to-late 1980s by Helmsman Homes off Olde Whitehall Road and Coffey Creek Drive. It's one of the more affordable,…

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Wendell Woods

Wendell Woods, filed as “Windell Woods” in Canopy MLS and on Shea Homes' own site, is one of the newest single-family communities in Tega Cay, South Carolina, breaking ground in 2024 on a quiet stretch of Gold Hill Road…

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Vermillion

Vermillion is a deed-restricted, master-planned community built into the heart of downtown Huntersville, about a mile off I-77 and within walking distance of the town's Main Street shops, restaurants, and Discovery…

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Verdict Ridge

Verdict Ridge is a golf course community on what locals call “the quiet side” of Lake Norman, tucked into Denver, North Carolina about 20 minutes northwest of uptown Charlotte. Homes here wind through hills, wooded…

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Valhalla Farms

Valhalla Farms sits along Waxhaw Marvin Road on the Union County line between Waxhaw and Marvin, North Carolina, an established neighborhood built for buyers who want real land, not just a big yard. Homes here go back…

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Trilogy Lake Norman

Trilogy Lake Norman is a gated, 55-and-over active adult community built by Shea Homes off NC Highway 16 in Denver, North Carolina, on the west side of Lake Norman in Lincoln County. Construction began in 2016 on more…

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Tree Tops

Tree Tops is a gated, 613-acre active adult community built by Lennar off Van Wyck Road in Lancaster County, South Carolina, about 20 miles south of uptown Charlotte and just south of the Indian Land and Fort Mill area.…

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The Woodlands

The Woodlands is an established single-family subdivision off Weddington Road NW in Concord, North Carolina, built mostly between 1994 and 1998 by builders including Corban Homes, Niblock Homes, and Pulte. It sits in…

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The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary is a gated, 1,300-acre private community on the Mecklenburg County shore of Lake Wylie, tucked off Shopton Road West about 20 minutes southwest of uptown Charlotte. It's an unusually low-density luxury…

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The Point

The Point is one of Lake Norman's signature golf and waterfront addresses, a Nantucket-inspired luxury community tucked onto a peninsula in southwest Mooresville. Its streets carry New England village names, its homes…

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The Gates at Waters Edge

The Gates at Waters Edge sits in Steele Creek, the fast-growing corner of southwest Charlotte tucked between Charlotte Douglas International Airport and the shoreline of Lake Wylie. Steele Creek was mostly farmland…

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The Farms

The Farms is one of west Mooresville's best-known lakeside neighborhoods, tucked onto a peninsula off Brawley School Road where Lake Norman wraps around much of the community. Construction began in 2003 and continued…

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Stillwell

Stillwell is a small, gated enclave of custom estate homes tucked into western Huntersville, North Carolina, not far from Mountain Island Lake and the Catawba River. Built out mostly between the mid-2000s and today by…

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