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Old Posted Apr 11, 2019, 5:59 AM
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I want to thank the photographers and local businesses, sharing updates on projects, who make this thread possible. Without you, these updates won't happen.

Are you thinking of moving here? This week, U.S. News & World Report ranked Winston-Salem as one of the best places to live, based on quality of life, people's desire to live here, and the local job market.

This is an exciting update! Roughly $400 million in new construction projects and more new healthcare, scientific research, and tech jobs for Winston-Salem were all announced in the past six days. Included is a possible new high-rise! A new tower crane is also rising on downtown Winston-Salem's skyline! WOW!

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Wow! I think this post may have over a billion dollars in projects?!?!

Hotel Indigo:


Credit: hotelindigowsd


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Credit: hotelindigowsd

Workers are preparing to clad the upper floors of the stair tower:

Credit: winstonsalemchamber

Courtyard by Marriott - Downtown:


Credit: jamiersouthern

It's the blue building, under construction, on the right side:

Credit: wjm3_86

View from the back:

Credit: vincerabil

Merschel Park:
Stimmel Associates is the architect for the park. An interesting feature: The new park will have a 360-degree camera system, throughout the park area, linked directly to the Winston-Salem Police Department. Yes, a private developer is building the park.

Main & Third:
Workers are installing a tower crane at this construction site.

The tower crane is the blue lattice-work structure:

Credit: Frank L. Blum Construction

Novant Health Critical Care Tower:
Work will soon begin on design for a new Critical Care Tower at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center. No architect or GC announcement for this project, at this time. This project will create new jobs. No word on how many new jobs will created when this tower is completed.

Dave & Buster's:
Aria Group is the interior architect for this entertainment project.


Credit: ariagrouparchitects

1001:
A celebrity sighting at one of our project sites!

This photograph was taken by a famous landscape architect and best selling author from England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Aalto

Credit: kathrynaalto

Novant Health Neurosciences & Spine Center:
Novant Health will construct a new Neurosciences & Spine Center. This project will create new jobs. No word on how many jobs. I think this project has already started construction and will open in December 2019.

Novant Health is also working on plans for a 175,000 square foot building across from their main Winston-Salem campus. No word on what is planned at this time.

Radar Brewing Company:

Custom made bar stools for this new craft brewery:

Credit: Radar Brewing Company

Chronicle Building:
The Pope Companies are in the process of pulling permits to begin renovation work on this former newspaper building.

500 West 5th:

New LED lights compared to the old lights, on a rainy night:

Credit: jimlarosee

New Tech Jobs:
Lowes Home Improvement Stores will move 80 tech jobs to their $100 million tech center in Winston-Salem.

Bailey South:
The design has changed! The East facade, facing Bailey Park, is improved, with a much better window design on the new six-storey office building and they will keep the original concrete facade of the historic 1926 power plant building and they will keep the steel windows. Notice the changes to the brick work on the southern expansion. I like these changes! This project also has a new tenant! Diva Labs is the newest tenant in the under construction six-storey office building at Bailey South, in downtown's IQ District.

The design changed and we have new renderings!

Credit: LTP Commercial

It appears as if they are removing the windows in the 1926 power plant building and covering them with plastic?

Credit: ridingwithdemic

Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Renovation:
Novant Health will begin a $181.4 million renovation of their Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center. Winston-Salem-based Novant Health will renovate patient rooms and construct new patient rooms with the latest technology; make sustainability improvements to building systems; a major renovation of the Women & Children's Institute & Innovation Center; expansions to neurology and stroke care, heart and vascular center, and oncology; and an expanded kitchen.


Credit: Novant Health

311 East Third:
Charlotte-based Atrium Health will make downtown Winston-Salem's IQ District the center of their medical research, bringing their medical research funding, their research partner offices, and thousands of scientific and analytics jobs to downtown Winston-Salem. This is expected to increase the amount of NIH (National Institutes of Health) funded research in downtown Winston-Salem and further the construction boom currently underway in Winston-Salem's downtown area. Atrium will invest in a translational research and population health center that could become the lead tenant in this new 11-12 storey building. Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag said, "Atrium officials have expressed interest in putting some of their people here as they view the quarter (downtown Winston-Salem's IQ District / Innovation Quarter) as a fascinating think tank. We believe we will be able to grow our research here with increased employment opportunities. They (Atrium Health) would like to bring companies and people up here because they think it is just an amazing place." Downtown Winston-Salem's IQ District will become the scientific research hub of nearly 50 hospitals and over 1,300 care centers in multiple states.

Major Tomms Oddity Shop:


Credit: penny.converse

U.S. Court of Appeals:

Our first photograph of this construction project is a blurred dumpster and construction fence, seen from a restaurant across the street:

Credit: eatyamas4thstreet

Whitaker Park Mixed-use Project:
There are potential plans for a new hotel at Whitaker Park and a data center may lease space there. Still waiting for more details.

Winston Junction:

The market part of Winston Junction is extremely popular:

Credit: lavenderandhoneykitchen

Casper's Alehouse, Bar, Apartments & Office Space:
West & Stem is the architect for this project.

Link Apartments Innovation Quarter:


Credit: halespearce


Credit: wakedowntown

A look at the COR-TEN Steel cladding installed on the northeast corner:

Credit: linkaptsiq



Alternative Transportation:

Union Station & Streetcar Yard:
These are old photographs from a person who worked on the clocks.

This is the clock above the "To Trains" doors, before it was painted black:

Union Station Winston Salem Bronze skeletal 36-inch diameter clock by Karen Macartney, on Flickr

The clock hands and numbers for the clock above the ticket windows. She added the hands and numbers to a round piece of marble:

Union Station Winston Salem White Powdercoat dial 30-inch diameter clock by LUMICHRON ® TOWER CLOCKS by Karen Macartney, on Flickr

The finished clock above the ticket windows, on a 36-inch (diameter) piece of round marble:

Union Station Winston Salem Marble 36-inch diameter clock by LUMICHRON ® TOWER CLOCKS by Karen Macartney, on Flickr

Green Street Pedestrian Bridge:
Demolition has started! We can now add this to our first post construction list, as work begins on this project.


Credit: winstonwatchman


Credit: winstonwatchman

East-West Expressway Demolition:

Constructing bridges to reconnect downtown to the southern neighborhoods:

Credit: its_pronounced_hawryluk

They are finding old street pavers, like this brick paver from 1908 they are sending to a museum:

Credit: NC DOT

Low Line:
Wexford Science & Technology is pulling permits for this project to remove the rail ties and start construction.

U.S. Bicycle Route 80:
It's very similar to the renderings, but it appears to have brick walls with concrete accents instead of all concrete? This will look amazing when it's completed!


Credit: NC DOT



Off-Subject:

Winston-Salem Has Second Highest Job Growth:
Over the past year, Winston-Salem was second in North Carolina in net job growth. Most of this job growth in Winston-Salem was in office jobs, which explains the boom in office space construction & office space proposals in downtown. In the first two months of this year, Winston-Salem added nearly 2,000 net jobs.

Job Growth in the Past Year (net job growth):
Charlotte: 24,700
Winston-Salem: 5,700
Raleigh: 5,700
Durham: 1,300
Greensboro: -300 (loss)

A storefront in downtown Winston-Salem:

Credit: penny.converse

Yes, this is downtown Winston-Salem's IQ District:

Credit: mdscheidt

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