Welcome to Charlottesville, Virginia
Apex’s dynamic, innovative, and future-oriented hometown
Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville is a thriving college town with unmatched proximity to the outdoors.
Consistently ranked among the country’s best places to live, Charlottesville is home to the University of Virginia, the historic Monticello estate, and a vibrant downtown pedestrian mall.
More recently, Charlottesville has become known as a hub for companies helping lead the clean energy, biotechnology, and quantitative finance sectors. Apex has a second office location in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, half an hour outside Minneapolis.
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Compact and walkable
The city is under 10.5 square miles but contains 26 parks, including the 20-mile Rivanna Trail.
Cultural hub
Apex Plaza is just steps away from a main Charlottesville feature: the downtown pedestrian mall, with its more than 150 shops and restaurants.
Accessible
The average commute time is only 17–24 minutes.
Working at Apex
The Apex team’s entrepreneurial spirit and dedication to solving the most impossible-seeming tasks is a hallmark of our company culture. Learn more about Apex—and Charlottesville—from the people who work and live here.
A renewable energy alliance launches in Charlottesville
The city’s best-kept secret is its thriving renewable energy sector.
Our sustainable headquarters
Apex Plaza, which features green building materials, solar power generation, and energy-efficient elements, is on the cutting edge of sustainable design—mirroring our work at the forefront of the new energy economy.
Discover C’ville
From the University of Virginia and Monticello to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center and the Paramount Theater, historic sites pepper the city of Charlottesville and the surrounding counties.
Discover C’ville
Apex’s hometown has something for everyone—arts and culture, music, vineyards and craft breweries, and a national park in its backyard.
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Charlottesville is home to dozens of art galleries and museums that highlight the works of internationally and locally renowned artists, including UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art and the largest aboriginal art collection outside of Australia.
Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway offer nearly 200,000 acres of hiking trails, camping, scenic views, and wilderness.
With hundreds of restaurants, cafes, wineries, and breweries, Charlottesville and the region are home to an outsize food scene.
Charlottesville is just two hours by car or train from Washington, DC, and an hour by car from Virginia’s capital city of Richmond. There are daily nonstop flights from Charlottesville-Albemarle airport to New York, Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, and DC.
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