Tag: Hickory NC
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What It Means for Real Estate When NC Builds the Glass That Powers AI
The AI buildout runs on glass fiber, and North Carolina makes most of America’s supply. In May, NVIDIA committed up to $3.2 billion to expand Corning’s U.S. manufacturing, part of a wave of advanced-manufacturing investment landing in Catawba County’s fiber corridor. The data centers grab the headlines, but the durable real-estate story is the workforce…
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Amazon and Corning Bring 1,000 Manufacturing Jobs to North Carolina
Amazon and Corning have struck a multibillion-dollar agreement to make the fiber-optic cable that runs Amazon’s data centers — and it’s adding 1,000 advanced manufacturing jobs at Corning’s North Carolina plants, most of them around Hickory. For real estate investors, the story isn’t the cable. It’s where 1,000 new workers will live, and what steady…
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Great Meadows Megasite
Our take: Located off of East-West interstate I-40, near North-South interstate I-77 between Charlotte and Asheville, with direct access to Norfolk-Southern rail, this site is attractive to logistics and industrial. Occupation of this site would increase demand for housing and bread-and-butter retail in the nearby towns of Marion, Morganton, and Hickory. The Great Meadows Megasite…