Widow of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt reveals plans for her vast landholdings

Teresa Earnhardt, widow of the late NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, plans to transform 399 of her rural acres in east Mooresville into an industrial park, according to her rezoning application for the vast former farmland property.

Mooresville Technology Park would sprout between Patterson Farm Road and Rustic Road near Cabarrus County. The park would be just off N.C. 3, also known as Dale Earnhardt Highway.

The acreage is 2 1/2 miles from Dale Earnhardt Inc., Earnhardt’s longtime racing headquarters on N.C. 3 in Mooresville.

Earnhardt, who was from Kannapolis, died in a last-lap crash at the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 18, 2001.

Years ago, when they renamed the state route outside Earnhardt’s headquarters as N.C. 3, state highway officials denied to The Charlotte Observer that it had anything to do with Earnhardt’s famous car number.

Teresa Earnhardt is scheduled to request the rezoning at the Oct. 22 Mooresville Planning Board meeting, according to the meeting agenda.

Earnhardt Farms LLC is listed as the property owner. Teresa Earnhardt is the only managing member of the LLC, according to N.C. Secretary of State records.

The Planning Board is an advisory panel that makes recommendations on rezoning requests to the Mooresville Board of Commissioners, which has final say. No date is scheduled for commissioners to consider the request