Highline Partners plans Mills Market in downtown Cornelius

Nov. 11. By Dave Vieser. A community meeting with the latest details on a planned six-story project for downtown Cornelius will take place on Wednesday Nov. 16  at Cornelius Town Hall.

To be known as Mills Market, the mixed-use project would have as many as 263 residential units as well as 7,300 square feet for commercial uses.

Developer Highline Partners of Charlotte is seeking rezoning for the 2.3 acre site on Catawba Avenue adjacent to the nearly finished Cain Center for the Arts.

Adjacent to the new arts center

The properties are currently occupied by brick buildings facing Catawba Avenue, including the Old Town Public House and the old Doc Washam House. The house apparently makes way for the project, despite having been on the town’s history tour.

Patients entered via the door on the left of the Doc Washam House

As currently envisioned, Mills Market would have commercial on the first floor and residential on the remaining five stories.

Details

The zoning is currently Town Center and Neighborhood Residential.

The proposal would change the zoning to conditional and continue the transformation of downtown Cornelius.

Highline Partners is a development company focused on boutique residential and commercial projects in urban and suburban markets.

Highline is also under contract to develop a mixed-use project at the former Central Branch YMCA site in Gastonia.

This would be Highline’s first project in the Lake Norman area.

Meeting details: Room 204 in Cornelius Town Hall, starting 6 pm Nov. 16