Projects & Construction:
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Are you ready for an awesome update! There are new projects announced for downtown Winston-Salem in today's update that will add apartments, co-working space, retail, and a conference center! And developers of several more projects announced their proposed projects won't be delayed and are still moving forward, as these developers talk of how strong downtown Winston-Salem is. They think there is demand for more development and are interested in more projects! Yes, there is a cancelled hotel and a few delayed projects, due to COVID-19, but there is so much to be excited about right now! Yes, even in this recession, the boom continues!
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Bailey South:
Completion is set for the middle of next month. Roughly four weeks away. Office tenants will move-in at the end of next month. The three signed retail tenants will move-in by the end of the Summer.
Welding stairs inside the 1926 power plant building:
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Lobby (Wednesday 5/6):
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Applying a finish coat on the 1926 power plant building's concrete facade:
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Retail expansion - brick cladding (Wednesday 5/6):
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View from the Low Line (Wednesday 5/6):
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Installing cabinets (Thursday 5/7):
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Reception Area for Front Street Capital Headquarters:
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West facade brick progress - nearly completed! (Tuesday 5/12):
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Working on the first floor retail spaces:
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I see they installed the pendant lights around the stairs:
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The brick on the two-storey retail projection is lighter than the brick on the office building:
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Hyatt Place Hotel:
Investors want to move forward, but a feasibility study is required. Hotel Equities is an investing partner in this 132-key hotel and office project. Before COVID-19, they planned to move forward this month, but now this project could be delayed until September 1, 2020? We'll see what happens.
Moxy Hotel - Downtown: Cancelled 
This proposed project is officially cancelled and will be replaced with a residential proposal. The hotel project is a victim of COVID-19. This project's cancellation may allow a proposed similar hotel in the neighboring IQ District to now move forward?
110 South Broad Street:
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Merschel Park:
The sewer lines under the park are in rough condition and need to be replaced. They can't start building the park until the sewer lines under the site are replaced and retaining walls for the Hyatt Place Hotel are completed. Cost over-runs led to a redesign and part of this redesign has reduced the number of parking spaces under the park to just 48 spaces, using the automated lifts (car elevators). COVID-19 has delayed construction until September 1, 2020.
Courtyard by Marriott - Downtown:
Some have asked about the Courtyard's courtyard... This is the entrance (far right side):
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View from the Top of 4th bar on the sixth floor:
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Hotel Indigo Expansion:
No start date for this 54-key hotel expansion. They are planning to move forward with it. Hotel Equities will likely be involved in this project as an investor and they will be the operator.
Morris Building:
This will be 100% retail/restaurants/entertainment. No delays are expected, due to COVID-19. The developer is working with a partner to bring national restaurant/retailers to this project. We should see the final details at the end of the year.
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Efird Block Restoration:
Nationwide Marketing will move their corporate headquarters to this building. They leased all of the office space, the storefront at 609 North Liberty (stone facade building), and will have a rooftop amenity space for employees. There was some confusion that it was a Nationwide Insurance office, but it's not. This company works with independent retailers in home furnishings, appliances, and consumer electronics. They make collective purchases, to save retailers money, and offer services like accounting, advertising, HR, website building, leadership development/team training, and insurance. The building will be completed in July.
8 West Third Street:
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850 North Trade Apartments and Co-working:
We finally have more details on this project. DPJ Residential will be the developer and Chaucer Creek Capital will finance the project. The existing produce warehouses will be demolished for a five storey luxury / high-end apartment building with 244 apartment units, a hidden parking deck, and a large co-working space with a conference center. Ground breaking is scheduled for Fall 2021, with completion set for Fall 2023. It's said to be the highest point in downtown and will have awesome mountain views. This building is located across the street from Fiddlin' Fish (beer) Brewing Company (to the south of the new building) and across the street from the award-winning Wise Man (beer) Brewing Company (to the east of the new building), so this is a beer drinker's dream live-work address! The developer has hired a company to assist with finding a name and to work with the developer in deciding what the building should look like. They are looking at projects in Portland's Pearl District (which they think is similar to downtown Winston-Salem's Industry Hill) for ideas and would like to see brick and metal cladding, with polished concrete floors to match the surrounding neighborhood. Downtown Winston-Salem is DPJ Residential and Chaucer Creek Capital's most profitable apartment market and this is their third project here in the past three years. All are upper-end luxury units. Yes, this is the same partnership constructing The Easley Apartments, discussed in this update post. This developer expects the economy to return to where it was, very quickly, and COVID-19 isn't delaying any of their projects in Winston-Salem.
500 West 5th:
An Ohio tech company will move their headquarters to this skyscraper in downtown Winston-Salem. Not many details at this time. In other tenant news, CloudLink is the newest headquarters in this skyscraper.
According to insurance-tech tenant Agribusiness Risk Underwriters, the building reopened on May 11.
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Courthouse Parking Deck:
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311 East Third:
Research & Innovation office space developer Wexford Science & Technology and the company financing their projects have decided to pause all of their projects on the drawing board for capital conservation, due to COVID-19. You may have noticed this with their projects in other cities' threads. This project will be constructed, but this may delay the start of construction on this 11-14 storey building in downtown's IQ District? We will know more next month. You may remember, this building's lead tenant has leased temporary space while they wait on this new building, to be custom-built for their organization.
Joyner's Bar:
An update on the conversion of this flatiron building, from the 1800s, into a bar by a team from New York and Los Angeles that have worked on impressive projects on both coasts. It already has the gold lettering on the windows.
Gold lettering on the windows:
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It's the building on the far right:
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Kaleideum Science Museum:
Frank L. Blum Construction has applied for a demolition permit, on Friday (5/15), to demolish the 1975 Winston-Salem Savings & Loan Building. Yes, work is about to start on the site of this proposed downtown science museum!
Moon Light Drive-in Theatre:
TwinCity was first to report this, last year, and now it is under construction! A rough-looking vacant lot, next to an automobile museum, is being graded for a small drive-in theatre. Yes, it is downtown, in the Industry Hill Neighborhood. No demolition is involved. This is a vacant site. If it can open during social distancing, it could become very popular. Plans included an outdoor grass area where walk-in visitors or cyclists could sit and enjoy a movie. It's another entertainment option. It also fits with the tourist attraction automobile museum on the site.
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East Second Avenue Apartments:
Balcony installation:
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Salem Paper Mixed-use:
The site has contaminants and they are applying for the brownfields program. I'm not sure how long this may delay the project for?
Stevens Center Renovation:
This is one of the biggest construction projects impacted by COVID-19. It could be a year or two delay before the next phase begins?
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410 North Liberty Micro Apartments:
Developer Mayfair Street Partners has proposed converting two historic buildings into micro apartments. These units will be around 400 square feet in size. ArchStudio7 is the architect. No General Contractor is selected at this time. This isn't the project's official name and will change when the developer releases the official name. The developer would like to create a national brand of micro apartments, they will build in other large cities, and this will be the first test project for this national micro apartments brand idea.
Link Apartments 4th Street:
Excavating for the underground parking:
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First Baptist Church Restoration:
I see part of the original design is obscured by a boxy addition:
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Twin City Motors Building Adaptive-reuse:
The developer will acquire financing through Allegacy Credit Union at the end of this month. Abatement / interior demolition will also begin at the end of this month. We do have tenant news for this project! The event space on the Main Street ground-level entrance will be used by the developer's two hotels (Hotel Indigo and Hyatt Place). Sports Community Consultants, LLC., has leased a floor for a speakeasy bar and social club, called Roaring Social, which will have a Roaring 20s theme. They will also have a golf simulator called Fairway Social, with six "Full Swing" simulators and also 12 lanes of bowling. Full Swing is a company Tiger Woods is involved in. It allows you to play 80+ world famous golf courses. They are also working on a rooftop bar with live music and a restaurant. Yes, the lighted igloos are still happening at the rooftop bar! From what I understand, Fairway Social will also have simulators for other sports, too, in what they call "competitive socializing." The Liberty Street entrance will have an Italian restaurant that will replace the pizza restaurant and the floor's food hall is 67% leased. You can look at past updates to read about the craft beer brewery and other attractions previously announced for this project.
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The Easley Apartments:
The developer has secured $45,554,000 in financing from Pinnacle Bank, to start construction. It's not everyday you see a developer demolishing a one block segment of a street to build a massive apartment building. Cyclists didn't like this, but the city allowed it. The developer gave cyclists a bike path through the property, as a cut-through, and the site will have a small City park. Completion is set for March 2022. In downtown Winston-Salem, developers often build the parks and pedestrian/bike paths, including some City parks/paths, which is interesting. They can construct them as amenities for their developments. Yes, this apartment developer will build the new City park.
One block of Brookstown Avenue was demolished for this massive apartment building and City park:
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Again, this is a high elevation. You can see the tops of the neighboring structures in the background.
Demolishing one block of Brookstown Avenue to merge two sites into one large site:
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Salem Parkway:
I can now confirm, the street lights are working.
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Milling pavement on streets near the ramps:
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Concrete base form for an overhead sign at I-285 and Salem Parkway interchange:
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Hyphen Hops Brewing Company & Mixed-use:
The design is complete and ground breaking is scheduled for this Summer. The project will be completed in Spring 2021. (Brewing = Craft Beer)
St. Pauls Restoration:
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Extra Space Storage - Downtown with Retail:
I'm guessing this developer may sell the site and we could see something else proposed here (likely apartments)? People in the neighborhood are angry over this site's condition and the lack of progress on this project. The proposal contains a large amount of retail space and is a good project, but it seems to be stalled-out.
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Link Apartments Innovation Quarter:
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A rare view of the shorter north facade:
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View from the Low Line:
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Alternative Transportation:
Green Street Pedestrian Bridge:
This suspension bridge project is still on schedule. They are waiting for the hangers (cables) to arrive, which is scheduled for mid-May. They will have them installed and tensioned by early-June.
Salem Parkway Bike & Pedestrian Path:
Transparent noise wall for pedestrians and cyclists on the bridge:
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The transparent noise wall is only on the side with the pedestrian and bike path.
The bridge has a solid concrete wall with guardrail between the cars and cyclists:
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Now that is a protected bike lane!
Oliver Cycling Park:
This project may not fully open until November? Do you remember the Portrait Project? This is the proposed location of the project's sculpture.
Low Line:
This will open at the end of next month.
This is the awesome team creating and installing the stairs from the Low Line to the Coal Pit:
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Searching for gritty areas to share:
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Sad to see everything empty:
https://theurbannews.com/lifestyles/...virus-journal/
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Military fly-over above Winston-Salem's two massive medical centers and the downtown medical school:
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An unusual solar electric bicycle found at the Bailey Power Plant bike rack:
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