Projects & Construction:
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I'm posting a BIGGER update than usual this week. More of everything you love about this thread.
Bailey South:
As you know, this multi-tenant office/retail building is the new headquarters for The Variable. The Variable is on Fast Company's 2020 Top 100 Best workplaces for Innovators. This list of the world's most forward-thinking organizations celebrates companies creating bold experimentation and innovation and empowering employees at all levels to develop new ways of doing business.
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Outdoor dining area:
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These restaurants/bars should be awesome places to watch the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic and concerts in the park from:
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Lighting at night:
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Drum circle and dancing with Bailey South in the background:
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Trendy string lights above the second floor restaurant's outdoor seating area.
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Construction fence is now removed (Thursday 7/23):
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Work starting on landscaping -
see larger images and thank the photographer at WSTB Forum (Thursday 7/23):
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Interior (stadium stairs) of The Variable's headquarters:
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The desk lifted into the building with a crane:
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Hyatt Place Hotel:
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Merschel Park:
It does appear as if the Hyatt Place developer may back-out of the park and the City will complete it? Nothing is confirmed at this time.
The weed-covered mound at this stalled-out park construction site is becoming a joke on social media:
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Kaleideum Science Museum:
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Tech Company Moving to Winston-Salem:
Drive Key is moving their headquarters from Romania to downtown Winston-Salem. They like Winston-Salem's entrepreneurial ecosystem. No incentives are involved.
Morris Building:
As work nears completion at Bailey South, attention is moving toward this building. The developer hired a company to talk with notable national chains to lease space in this building. COVID-19 made signing leases more difficult, but we should have more information very soon! It will be retail with no expansions.
Brick building on the left:
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Link Apartments 4th Street:
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Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Renovation:
Work is now starting on this project, beginning with renovations to the 1964 tower and 1976 tower. The renovations will cost nearly $20 million. Still waiting on news for the new tower. It appears as if they are enlarging rooms and will need more space in their proposed new tower to keep their current bed count. Vannoy Construction is the general contractor for this project.
401 West End Blvd:
Construction progress at this adaptive-reuse project, converting an abandoned structure into a conference center with retail spaces. The back of the structure is next to a waterway (former canal) and the developer will take advantage of this view with the building renovation.
Our first look at this project's progress:
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Notice the wide stepped sidewalk & terrain. Sadly, the original real rock facade & windows were removed. Workers are preparing to reclad the structure:
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Pouring the sidewalk (notice the construction worker with hardhat on the second floor):
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1001:
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ForEveryone Home:
Oakland-based Grounded Solutions Network has selected Winston-Salem, Indianapolis, and San Antonio to develop housing policies for lasting affordability, displacement prevention, and neighborhood preservation. Urban Planner and Policy Analyst Matt Weber prepared an existing conditions report he presented last week.
Cloverdale Redevelopment:
These 1940s apartments are now vacated, as workers prepare to demolish them for a larger luxury (gentrification) apartment development.
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St. Pauls Restoration:
The scaffolding is down... is this project completed?
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Elevated Wake Park: Built! 
This is an awesome project I didn't know about. If I knew about it, we would've followed its construction in this thread. This 30-acre park is now completed and open, as a big tourist attraction. Wakeboarders are pulled around the doughnut-shaped lake, one of only a few in the world like it, using an elevated cable system. For advanced riders, there are rails and features for aerial tricks. If you're a beginner, they have an easy way to learn, with 30-minute lessons, and speed is adjustable. You can bring everything yourself or rent it at the park. They also have an area to watch, with a restaurant, snacks, and places to sit and eat. An all-day pass is just $50. This is another fun outdoor attraction in the Winston-Salem area.
A construction photograph from March, as work was nearing completion:
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The completed wakeboarding park:
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Interstate 74:
The bridges, deceleration lane, and the ramp on the far right are part of the new Interstate 74:
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Mixed-use Adaptive-reuse:
Developer HEM + SPIRE is still looking around downtown Winston-Salem. I still haven't heard what building they are interested in?
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Amazon Fulfillment Center: Built!
This project is now completed. Amazon is currently working on a Forsyth County Last-Mile facility, on a neighboring property, that will hire hundreds more workers and open later this year.
The Easley Apartments:
"The Easley, a new 300-unit rental community with unobstructed views of baseball stadium and the downtown skyline. Units available in Spring 2022!"
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Tech Company Moving to Winston-Salem:
Tech company Winning Wise is moving from Chicago to an office building on West Fifth Street in downtown Winston-Salem. This company is involved in career development. No incentives are involved.
Hanes Park Sports Facilities:
Since several former residents would like updates on this... The mid-century modern gym was demolished and work is starting on the new gym. This project also includes a football stadium. Due to site restrictions, the number of seats at the football stadium had to be scaled-back. These are very high quality sports facilities. Hanes Park is often viewed as Winston-Salem's Central Park.
Renderings and site work for the new football stadium:
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Site work for a new gym:
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Salem Parkway:
Paving was completed early yesterday morning, before 6 a.m.,.
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Twin City Motor Building Adaptive-reuse:
Justin Draughn Construction could be the General Contractor for this project?
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You can see parts of the Ford automobile assembly lines on the floor:
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Window restoration and you can see the concrete repair work:
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Window restoration:
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Rooftop Bar:
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Carolina University Downtown Dormitory:
This 7-storey dormitory and university office development has changed its name. It will be constructed next to the new Green Street Pedestrian Bridge.
Robert Hall Hotel and Conference Center:
According to the developer, Coe & Hartman was the largest sign company in the southeast. The developer was told about a few signs in the basement, but they were surprised by the massive number of signs they found. All of them from Winston-Salem and many of them are neon.
This developer could build a Winston-Salem neon museum in downtown. I think he plans to use these signs in his multi-building development, so you will have to visit the hotel, restaurant, bar, and conference space to see these.
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The truck taking them for restoration:
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First Baptist Church Restoration:
The brick wall on the lower left is new and has different brick from the original 1925 building:
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Mill 800 Office & Retail:
This project seems to have stalled-out, with the developer working on other projects? I guess the developer is waiting to see what happens with COVID-19?
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McIntyre Headquarters:
McIntyre Group has purchased a 275,000 square foot vacant industrial building to convert into their new headquarters, in an adaptive-reuse project. They want to bring the building "back to its former glory." Other, smaller buildings, on the site will be renovated and leased to other tenants. This project will be completed in phases, with full completion set for possibly 2024?
Nationwide Marketing Headquarters:
They still haven't started on the storefronts...
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Office cubicles:
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500 West 5th:
Work starting on Renfro Headquarters space:
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These now completed stairwell murals are for Art Starts:
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Link Apartments Innovation Quarter:
Does anyone know if this project is now completed? It appears to be completed, with only retail upfits still under construction.
Opened Fifth Street Sidewalk:
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Alternative Transportation:
Green Street Pedestrian Bridge:
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In this photograph, from Tuesday (7/28), the jacks and beams are removed from this suspension bridge:
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Oliver Cycling Park:
Workers are pouring the walkway:
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Bike & Pedestrian Land Bridge:
You can see the outward angle of the side for the land bridge, which will have trees/landscaping along the sides to hide the highway from pedestrians and cyclists:
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You can see the landscape beds for trees and other highway blocking landscape, along the land bridge, leading into the under construction Oliver Cycling Park:
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Downtown Streetscape:
Amy Crum will brief the Planning Board on the Downtown Winston-Salem Streetscape Master Plan. A public hearing is scheduled for August 13th. It would've been great if they could've started construction on this a few months ago.
Salem Parkway Bike & Pedestrian Path:
For bicycle commuters, this will connect the university medical center, Ballpark & Village District, historic West Salem, historic Ardmore, and historic West End to downtown and the IQ District, while also connecting to other bike paths. Tunnels, bridges and ramps reduce the number of stops and make bicycle commuting safer and faster. The city's bicycle commuting community worked hard to make this bicycle super highway happen.
It's on the right side:
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Tunnels and ramps for this bicycle commuter super highway:
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Rail Streetcar System:
This project is shown in Winston-Salem's Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) for July 16, 2020, as a $179 million planned project. These projects are a priority for the next few years for the Winston-Salem MSA.
Low Line:
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Off-Subject:
Looking for rough and gritty areas to show, too:
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New Mural at Cheesecakes by Alex opening on Trade Street in downtown's Arts District:
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1929 house in Winston-Salem's Buena Vista Neighborhood, designed by renowned architect Lorenzo Winslow:
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Winston-Salem's High Line: (Take this downtown path to reach the park in the next photograph)
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This city park is just a short bike ride from downtown:
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The Boom Observation Pier:
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