If you're looking for a place to start your career, raise a family or retire, Caldwell County has you covered. Here, you can live at your pace and find affordable housing to fit your lifestyle. Options include apartments and houses to rent, lakeside living, retirement communities, new construction, historic homes and land where you can build to suit. Top-notch schools, thriving arts, state-of-the-art medical facilities, Southern hospitality and ample recreation and adventure add to our appeal.
Since 2016, residential building permits have increased by 70 percent. Multi-phase development for luxury townhomes, condos and multi-family housing overlooking Grandfather Mountain is in the works in Lenoir. These distinctive, walkable neighborhoods will feature both attached and detached dwellings and preserve green space and environmentally-sensitive areas.
Foothills Home Builders Association of Hickory-Catawba Valley, Inc. is a non-profit membership organization with over 50 years of experience dedicated to promoting professionalism, credibility, quality and vitality in the building industry. Their goal is to maintain the highest standards while exceeding clients’ expectations at all levels.
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North Carolina General Assembly recognizes RetireNC Certified Retirement Communities for providing the amenities, services and opportunities retirees need to enjoy active and productive lives. Rigorous assessment is performed against measurable criteria.
Duke Street Cottages, a pocket neighborhood of Zero Energy Ready Homes in Granite Falls, offer sustainable community living with shared green space and sidewalks connecting to downtown.
Blue Bell at Lenoir Mills offers residents spacious loft living in the converted former Lenoir Cotton Mill, once the largest mill in the town. The masonry façade, timber-intensive interior, large wooden columns and 12-foot-tall arched windows are among the original details preserved. The 46 one- and two-bedroom loft-style apartments are within walking distance of historic downtown Lenoir.
Downtown Lenoir has created a master plan to encourage investment in downtown renovations for mixed-use that allows for retail space on the ground floors and apartments above.
The Village of Cedar Rock contains a balance of 130 homes with plenty of acreage planned for growth. Even with a small municipal setting, Cedar Rock provides residents with many amenities you might expect in a much larger community, including a clubhouse, charming tree-lined streets and a gated main entrance.
Rhodhiss is a small, quaint community known for weaving the flags planted on the moon by the United States. Located in both Caldwell and Burke counties, Rhodhiss is situated alongside the Catawba River just below Duke Energy’s Rhodhiss Dam and features many lakeside homes and a community park.
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The affordable housing crisis demands innovative solutions. ADL Ventures proposes a cutting-edge model: a productized, open-source platform using industrialized construction (IC) technology and a network of prefabrication factories to deliver high-performance, affordable housing nationwide.
Our Western North Carolina Industrialized Construction Tech Hub is central to this effort. We will collaborate with local developers, municipalities, and the community to create a catalog of configurable IC components designed for energy efficiency and minimal embodied materials.
This open-source catalog will streamline housing design, cutting time and costs compared to traditional methods, and provide real-time project cost estimates. Developers can then use our vetted prefabrication network to manufacture and assemble IC components, reducing construction timelines by up to 50% and achieving economies of scale that traditional methods cannot match.
The Tech Hub is dedicated to driving innovation and collaboration for effective and scalable affordable housing solutions.
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Explore scenic vistas, historical sites, art, breweries, wineries, eateries and more along this world famous route.
The Blue Ridge foothills, Pisgah National Forest and Wilson Creek are our playgrounds for biking, off-roading, watersports, hiking, hunting, fishing and camping.
Explore the Caldwell County Itinerary for food, shopping, highlights, lodging and adventures! We invite locals and visitors to delight in the journey and the destination.
Life in Caldwell County can be full of adventure. Spend the day exploring parks, mountains, whitewater rafting, kayaking, hiking and biking.
Whether we’re celebrating art, butterflies, blackberries, BBQ or wine, the calendar is full of Southern charm.
Caldwell County has the most extensive collection of permanent public outdoor sculptures per capita in the U.S. Our annual Sculpture Celebration is the largest in the South.
