The Hickory Factor

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If you are looking for a little distance from campus that involves elegant living, we believe our Hickory luxury apartments for rent are worth considering.

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The greater Hickory area plays host to some headquarters and corporate facilities for some notable organizations. Additionally, Transportation Insight, an organization with an expertise in logistics, chose to make Hickory the site of its headquarters in Their reasons for doing so? The recent rejuvenation that our downtown has experienced.

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Quality of life matters to employees, and Transportation Insight was wise enough to factor in that variable, which led them to make a great decision in our humble opinion! Whichever you prefer, both help make Hickory a great place to visit and an even better place to make home. Schedule your tour at The Legends today. In fact, we are just scratching the surface of what our vibrant community has to offer, both within the city limits and in the surrounding countryside. We want folks who are thinking about moving to our lovely community to know what the region has to offer, to be sure, but we also would be remiss if we failed to mention the many virtues of our Hickory apartments for rent!

Welcome to the most prestigious apartment community in the entire Hickory region. Found in southeast Hickory, just a short drive from the freeway, The Legends are a Hickory luxury apartment complex that offers modern, comfortable living arrangements for folks looking for high-end amenities and features at a reasonable price. With 9-foot vaulted ceilings, oversized patios and balconies, granite counters, tennis courts, two pools, a fitness center, and much more, there is a lot to like about living in our award-winning Hickory apartments for rent.

In terms of elegance and style, we are confident you will be pleased with what you find. In terms of the apartment community, there perhaps is as much to like about activities to do on the premises as there is about the stylish comfort of our apartment units. Find our list below: Visualize yourself enjoying your evenings on your own private patio, or perhaps wasting the day away down at the resort-style swimming pool s.

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If you were in doubt about us ever getting to the part of the post where we talk about what we said we would in the title, doubt no more, for we have arrived. Below you will find a few things we love about Hickory and the surrounding area. Did you know that Hickory had the most cases of polio in the entire state of North Carolina?

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The sheer weight of the number of polio cases that the city was forced to construct a new hospital to care for the over-abundance of patients with polio. If you are sitting there reading this blog post, wondering to yourself what a severe polio outbreak in the 40s and 50s has to do with convincing you to move to Hickory, we would call your criticism valid. The beautiful side of this story is that the majority of the funding which provided the ability to construct the new hospital was a direct result of volunteer efforts made by the community.

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Though there was a significant amount of controversy when it came to treatment methods and other aspects of the ordeal, it nevertheless was a defining moment in the history of Hickory, NC. To see a community rally around those in need is a beautiful thing, so we felt inclined to highlight this interesting, if not arbitrary piece of Hickory history. Both houses do well to exemplify what traditional Hickory life was like back in the late s.

You can catch them at L. Frans Stadium, which opened in and seats just north of 5, fans.

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Be sure to catch a game this summer, and be sure to avoid getting pinched by Conrad or Candy the Crawdads! In the meantime, we hope you come visit us at The Legends Apartments in Hickory soon! The city, which is located in Catawba County, North Carolina, is home to a shade over 40, people who find themselves pleasantly nestled between Charlotte to the southeast and Cherokee National Forest to the Northwest.

Asheville, Spartanburg, Greenville, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem are all close by as well, making Hickory a perfectly placed mid-sized city for folks looking to live in a quaint yet bustling community. Among these categories are ten key superlatives which influence both visitors and residents of a city like Hickory. Those factors are listed below: This is what the widely-read travel magazine had to say about Hickory, North Carolina: Craft-beer enthusiasts gather at the popular annual Hickory Hops festival featuring more than 50 microbreweries and live music.

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