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About this home
Premier Commercial Opportunity with Exceptional Highway Frontage With nearly 1,800 feet of frontage on NC Highway 127, this property offers the kind of visibility and exposure that simply cannot be replicated. Positioned on one of Hickory's busiest commercial corridors, this exceptional 18.34-acre campus commands a prominent corner location at 6th Street SE (NC Highway 127) and 18th Avenue SE, benefiting from outstanding daily traffic counts, easy accessibility, and exceptional signage opportunities. The property is improved with a well-maintained 28,472-square-foot brick facility featuring expansive gathering spaces, numerous classrooms and offices, commercial kitchen facilities, meeting rooms, recreational areas, and a fully finished lower level with both interior and exterior access. The flexible layout is ideally suited for a wide range of commercial, institutional, educational, medical, nonprofit, or redevelopment uses. Beyond the existing improvements, the expansive site offers extensive paved parking, city water and sewer service, and significant room for future expansion or redevelopment. The property's substantial highway frontage provides an unmatched opportunity for business visibility, brand recognition, and customer access while maintaining a spacious campus-like setting. Conveniently located just minutes from Interstate 40, Downtown Hickory, Catawba Valley Medical Center, and surrounding residential communities, this strategic location places your organization or investment at the center of one of Western North Carolina's fastest-growing commercial markets. Whether envisioned as a corporate headquarters, educational campus, place of worship, medical facility, community center, event venue, mixed-use redevelopment, or long-term investment, 1855 6th Street SE presents a truly rare opportunity to acquire one of Hickory's most recognizable and strategically positioned commercial properties. Per the City of Hickory Zoning Dept. the property can be used for Single Family Residential and Townhomes if a developer is interested in the property.
Property details
- MLS
- Canopy MLS
- MLS #
- CAR4405010
- Property type
- Special Purpose
- Subdivision
- N/A
- Status
- Active
- Days on market
- 84
- On market date
- July 22, 2026
- Stories
- 3
- Total bathrooms
- N/A
- Garage spaces
- N/A
- Parking spaces
- N/A
- Lot size
- N/A
Location
Get directions →Nearby schools
Within 10 miles. School directory data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), accessed via the Urban Institute Education Data API. Local Score is calculated by INNOVATE Real Estate; where a state rating is shown, it comes from that state's own official school report card.
- Enrollment
- 328
- Student:teacher ratio
- 12.1:1
- District
- Hickory City Schools
- Enrollment
- 426
- Student:teacher ratio
- 16.4:1
- District
- Hickory City Schools
- Enrollment
- 188
- Student:teacher ratio
- 9.9:1
- District
- Hickory City Schools
Walkability
Blended score for Hickory's center, calculated by INNOVATE Real Estate from two sources: the EPA's National Walkability Index (street network, transit, land-use mix) and Google Places amenity data (what's actually reachable on foot from this point). 60% EPA National Walkability Index + 40% nearby-amenity density (Google Places).
Market position
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Data source: Listing information provided by Canopy MLS (carolina) via Trestle/CoreLogic. Last updated 9 days ago.
Information herein deemed reliable but not guaranteed; all measurements, school assignments, HOA fees, taxes, and feature lists are approximate and should be independently verified. Equal Housing Opportunity.







