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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – Planners unveiled the early stage of the Bryton Mixed Use Project with new homes, offices and stores. The Huntersville project will be the largest development to date along the planned CATS Red Line commuter rail.

“This is the largest to be developed project with both transportation by car, transportation by commuter rail, anywhere in the United States,” Paul Herndon, of American Asset Corporation, said.

With the tracks going right through Bryton, the 500-acre site is expected to include apartments, homes offices and stores.

Local leaders believe the Bryton's construction in the next 15 years will spur other projects along the Red Line.

“I have a number of prospects who come into this area and ask, 'When is the rail going to happen?'” Mayor Jill Swain said.

The project won't be covered by Mecklenburg County's half cent transit tax, so CATS leaders have applied for different grants from the federal government.

“We're going to continue to lobby at the federal level, hopefully get some guidelines and rules changed to allow commuter rail projects and streetcar projects to better qualify,” John Muth, of CATS, said.

CATS leaders said they don't know at this point when work can begin or finish on the Red Line Commuter Rail project. Developers with the Bryton Project say the first thing likely to be completed is apartments, which could be open in two years.

The development will cost roughly $375 million.