CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — “I swam in this lake as a kid and I so I really wanted something here that was a positive.”
For said landowner Bob McRorie, Mountain Island Lake has been the best kept secret for years. The smallest of the three man-made lakes touching Mecklenburg County is about 3,300 acres and provides drinking water to residents in Mecklenburg and Gaston counties.
For that reason, much of the shoreline is part of nature preserves, and there are no commercial buildings, no marinas and no restaurants — until now.
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“I live in this area, drove by, saw the sign,” McRorie said. “It had been up forever, and I sold my company. I did very well, and I said, I’m going to buy that property.”
That 5-acre property McRorie purchased in 2017 has about 550 feet of shoreline with a waterfront view down the main channel of Mountain Island Lake. It’s near the intersection of Brookshire Boulevard (N.C. 16) and Mountain Island Brook Lane.