Birkdale Village

Birkdale Village is a new urban mixed-use community in Huntersville, North Carolina, United States, 12 miles (19 km) north of Charlotte, North Carolina.[1] It was named after the English village of Birkdale, near Liverpool. It has numerous restaurants, stores, cafes, apartments, town homes, and houses. A gym, a movie theater, a supermarket, a golf course, a greenway, an express bus park and ride, and the 32,510-acre (131.6 km2) Lake Norman are all within walking distance for the residents of Birkdale Village.[2]

Birkdale Village Town Center

Rubbermaid, Everblue Training Institute, and SentryOne are headquartered within the walking footprint of the village center.

Design & development

Birkdale Village is a 52-acre (210,000 m2) new urbanist residential, retail and office mixed-use community located in Huntersville, North Carolina.[3] The town center functions as the hub of an 800-acre (3.2 km2) new town that includes 4 communities of 2000 single-family homes and town houses. Included within the town center are 454,000 sq ft (42,200 m2). of retail and incidental office space, as well as 340 units of multi-family housing. Birkdale village is also located on the McDowell Creek Greenway, which provides walking and nature trails for residents while preserving the water quality of nearby McDowell Creek.

Birkdale Village was developed by Crosland, Inc. The design team included Shook Kelley, The Housing Studio & Land Design.

As the functional town center, Birkdale village hosts live music every Friday and Saturday evenings from 6:30pm to 9:30pm.

References
  1. http://www.birkdalevillage.net/
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2013-02-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) North Carolina State Parks Website
  3. http://casestudies.uli.org/Profile.aspx?j=7775&p=1&c=8%5B%5D Urban Land Institute Case Study

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