Projects & Construction:
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Another new brewery in this week's update! Also, we have a massive Hotel Indigo and Union Station update! And a celebrity sighting on Fourth Street!
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Hotel Indigo:
Last week, we explored a finished hotel room. This week, we have photographs of the lobby, too! Workers are currently installing the EIFS cladding over the stair tower. They will also install this on the rough area on the building's west facade. This was accepted since the EIFS will be hidden by the Hyatt Place Hotel and Crawford Condominiums to be constructed on the neighboring sites. The developer said Hotel Indigo will be completed at the end of this month (19 days!).
A look at the exterior:
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Yes, a tour with the Mayor:
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A tour of the second floor with Winston-Salem resident and author Franklin Vagnone (Founder of Twisted Preservation) and his husband:
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Gold Art Deco capitals at the second floor wine bar:
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Sir Winston Restaurant on the first floor:
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Hallway with original 1928 hardwood floors:
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Another look at the hotel rooms:
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It's a model room, so it's the only completed room:
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Trendy floors:
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"We’ve got Walnut for days! You’ll be able to see these tables soon in the restaurant area of Hotel Indigo"
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Downtown Hampton Inn & Suites:
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Merschel Park:
I do believe the rain is delaying this project. Rain is causing mud to reach Third Street, which will be corrected by the end of this week. This park will have a $225,000 sculpture, rising around 30 feet / 9.2 metres in height, as the centerpiece. According to City Beat, artists being considered include Abigail DeVille, Judith Shea, and Simone Leigh.
Efird Block Restoration:
We finally have a nice rendering of this project! Evergreen Hill Studio is the architect for this restoration project. If you would like to lease retail or office space in this project, please call: (336) 722-1986
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Hoots Brewing Company on Trade:
STITCH Design Shop will be the architect for this new downtown craft brewery project, located at Trade & Seventh streets (Former Test Pattern space), across from the ARTC Theatre. The architects will enlarge the windows and upgrade the restrooms. This brewery space won't have a kitchen. Food at this brewery space will be provided by the neighboring restaurants. The brewery is currently starting the permitting process and will begin construction, soon!
8 West Third Street:
The conversion of an historic Class B office building into a Class A office building for creative and tech companies. This is the oldest steel frame skyscraper in North Carolina. It was originally Wachovia Bank's headquarters until 1965.
The detail they will restore, with this project, is amazing!
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Egger North American Headquarters:
Egger purchased six local homes for their employees. The office building in their first phase will open in Spring of this year, as the company's North American headquarters, and will have spaces for architects and designers to learn about Egger's products and to share new ideas and innovations. The first phase will cost $300 million. The project has three phases and when finished will cost nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.
Winston Junction:
The market at Winston Junction will open March 30, with vendors selling food, arts/crafts, goods, beverages, and plants. Some of the under construction entertainment venues, offices, and retailers at Winston Junction will open at a later date.
This is the entrance to Winston Junction Market:
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A look inside at the market:
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Still hanging Sheetrock on the entertainment spaces:
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Office Space inside the Winston Junction mixed-use development:
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Reynolds Place Arts Theatre:
We finally have renderings and a construction update for this project! STITCH Design Shop is the architect and Frank L. Blum Construction is the general contractor.
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500 West 5th:
The lobby appears to be almost finished...
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Link Apartments Innovation Quarter:
From a video for a company that bikes advertisements around downtown:
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That is so Winston-Salem!
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Alternative Transportation:
East-West Expressway Demolition:
Building new bridges to replace demolished bridges:
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Union Station & Streetcar Yard:
The one storey side of this three storey building:
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I like the clock above the doors:
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You can see the tallest skyscraper in the city from these big windows:
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North-South Rail Transit System:
The North Carolina Department of Transportation toured several active projects in downtown Winston-Salem, including the right-of-way for this proposed rail transit line.
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Off-Subject:
Celebrity Sighting: BBC World News Correspondent James Coomarasamy doing a report on downtown Winston-Salem (look for it next week!):
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Winston-Salem is now constantly appearing in national and international print and broadcast media and in a few TV shows. Very awesome! James Coomarasamy said he liked Mellow Mushroom Pizza and Foothills Brewing.
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Winston-Salem's historic Brookstown Neighborhood:
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Speaking of Foothills Brewing...
New neon sign at Foothills Brewing Company:
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Yes, this is next door to the Courtyard Hotel construction project:
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