https://www.wataugademocrat.com/news/asu...744f6.html

Quote:According to the university, the five-story building — at 225,800 square feet — is larger than any building on App State’s Boone campus, including the 203,000-square-foot Leon Levine Hall of Health Sciences. The building sits on 15.7 acres of land and includes large open spaces, a cafeteria and nearly 700 parking spaces.

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The future App State Hickory Campus has frontage along Hwy 321 and is located less than two miles away from the Hickory Regional Airport and four miles away from Interstate 40. It is also close to downtown Hickory as well as two regional hospitals.

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton metro area [371,000 people] was the largest metropolitan area in North Carolina that did not have a major, public university campus.

Just saw this and got pretty excited to see our presence in Hickory expand.

A good way to get an extra 1000 studenst (and student athletic fees) without trying to squeeze 22,000 people on main campus. Plus Hickory has a lot of blue collar / middle class folk that just need that extra little push to be App students/fans.

Suck it Lenoir Rhyne!

(I grew up about 5 miles from LR's campus)

I have family in Morganton. I’ve always liked the Unifour.

We also announced a partnership with the UNC Pharmacy school to fast track App Health Science majors going after their Pharm D degree. Big things happening at App.