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Winston-Salem Development Guide
Downtown Districts:
- Financial District
- Theatre District
- IQ District (Research & Technology District)
- Government District
- Arts District (DaDa)
- West End Village (Ballpark Area)
- Old Salem
- Northwest Industrial District
- East Side
- Produce District
- Twin City Quarter (Convention Center)
- Brookstown
- Goler Heights
- Restaurant Row
- Holly Avenue Historic District
- West Side (Central Library)
Stats & Information: (*estimated population numbers)
- City Population: 258,000* (90th largest in U.S.)
- Urbanized Area: 425,000* (3rd largest in North Carolina)
- Metro Population: 705,187 (86th largest in U.S.)
- Construction Began On The City: Nov. 17, 1753
- Winston-Salem Has Buildings From The Mid-1700s
- Founded As The State's Center of Arts & Crafts In Mid-1700s
- Largest Hyphenated City
- First Arts Council
- Best Sport Cycling City in the United States According to USA Cycling
- Home To Two of The Nation's Largest Hospitals
- Home To A Major University Medical Center
- Three Nationally Respected Art Museums
- Home To The Museum of Anthropology
- Home To First Women's College In United States
- Home To Internationally Renown Arts Conservatory
- Home To World's Third Largest Motion Picture Archive
- Americans for the Arts was chartered in Winston-Salem
- Home To Governors School and State High School For Arts
- First Classical Music Written in America in Winston-Salem (1789)
- Home To The World's Largest Collection of 18th Century Classical Music
- Thor Johnson of Winston-Salem Was The First American Born Symphony Conductor
- Winston-Salem is one of the Top-10 most technology-advanced cities of its size in the nation
- Winston-Salem has the nation's fastest growing Innovation District (Downtown's IQ District)
- Located at the foot of the mountains in North Carolina's Wine Country
- North Carolina's Festival City (Street Festivals in Spring/Summer/Fall)
- Was State's Largest City At Peak of American Industrial Revolution
- Oldest of The State's Five Largest Cities
- Popular and Common Local Nickname: Twin City
- Artist & Hipster Nickname For The City: Camel City
- Markets Itself As: City of Arts & Innovation
- City Symbols: 1853 Coffee Pot, Moravian Star, & Reynolds Building
Current Construction (Inside City Limits Only) As of mid-May 2026: (I'm sure I missed a few! Post any that are missed in this thread)
- Metropolitan Mixed-use (East Side)
- Oliver Cycling Park (Brookstown)
- Liberty Plaza Renovation (Financial District)
- Fogle Commons / IQ Infrastructure (IQ District)
- Loewy Building Apartments & Retail (Restaurant Row)
- Stevens Center Renovation (Theate District)
- WFBH Eye Institute (IQ District)
- Muse Winston-Salem (Brookstown)
- Salem Bottling Works (West Salem)
- Sandbox VR Downtown (Restaurant Row)
- Pilgrim Court Mixed-use (Boston-Thurmond)
- Event Center & Food Truck Park (Produce District)
- First Baptist Church Restoration (Twin City Quarter)
- Downtown Marriott Hotel Renovation (Twin City Quarter)
- 1782 George Stockburger House Restoration (West Salem)
- Union Cross Development (Alliance Science & Technology Park)
- African-American History Museum (Happy Hill / Liberia)
- Brown School Lofts at Legacy Heights (East Side)
- The Haven at Wake Apartments (Reynolda)
- Whitaker Park Mixed-use Project (Reynolda)
- N.C. Museum of Art - Winston-Salem Renovation
- Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Renovation
- The Grounds (LJVM Sports & Entertainment Complex)
- New Brunson Downtown Elementary School (Produce District)
- The Grounds Office Building (LJVM Sports & Entertainment Complex)
- Creekside at the Grounds (LJVM Sports & Entertainment Complex)
- 10 West Third (Financial District)
- Salem Cohousing (West Salem)
- Highland Avenue Park (East Side)
- Combs Wholesale Produce Facility (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- SEED Center
- Carolina Cat
- Interstate 74
- 1001 (West Salem)
- Learning Commons
- Park @ 74 (Union Cross)
- Patterson Avenue Substation (Industry Hill)
- Sentinel Commons (Twin City Quarter)
- Smith Reynolds Airport Projects (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Transit, Bike, & Pedestrian Improvements (City Wide)
- Twin City Trail (Brookstown)
- Smith Reynolds Airport Restoration (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Downtown Streetscape
Proposed & Construction: - BIKE COMMUTER LINE
has grade separated tracks/lanes for pedestrians, cyclists, and a grade separated rail line for "future" light rail transit (LRT) - STREETCAR ROUTE
is an approved (route) modern fixed-rail circulator through downtown and surrounding neighborhoods - CYCLE TRACKS
is a bike route grade separated from the roadway and sidewalks by a landscaped buffer - EV CHARGING
has one or more places to charge electric vehicles - UNION STATION
is a restored 1926 rail transportation center designed for future NCRR Passenger Rail, Light Rail, Streetcars, and Bus service - ENTERTAINMENT NOISE DISTRICT
is a zoned downtown district where loud entertainment is allowed at all hours.
Credit: WSTB Forum
Prism Tower (Theatre District) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Architect: Axi:Ome
- Observation and Meeting Space
- Color-changing Prism-shaped Windows
- LED Light Show at Night
- Floors: 28 Storeys
- Height: 350 feet tall (106.7 m)
Credit: STITCH Design Shop
200 West First Street
- Developer: Davidson Craven
- Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- Height: 20 floors
- Mixed-use building with residential, retail, and a rooftop pool on the fourth floor of the building's podium
- Will have a skybridge, over a bike and walking path, connecting the building to a neighboring parking deck
- Is located at a major bicycle path intersection, where east-west and north-south bike paths meet and provides access to all major bike paths
- Is located between two parks (Corpening Plaza Watergardens and Oliver Park)
Credit: WSTB
One Research Tower (IQ District) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Location: 1 North Research Parkway, on downtown's waterfront
- Developer: BioMed Realty / Wexford Science + Technology
- Tech Company Office Space
- Office Space: 308,000 Square Feet
- Retail Space: 6,500 Square Feet
- Underground Parking: 1,389 Spaces
- Floors: 15-25 Storeys
Credit: Marriott Hotels & Resorts
The Depot Hotel & Residences (IQ District) STREETCAR ROUTE - CYCLE TRACKS - * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL (LRT) *
- Developer: Coury Hospitality
- Co-developer: Front Street Capital
- Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- General Contractor: Landmark Builders
- Hotel Flag: Marriott Autograph Collection
- Uses: 5-Star Luxury Hotel & Restaurant/Bar - Retail - Meeting Space - Residential
- Height: 16 floors above Fourth Street
- 2 floors of parking below the building, retail fronting Bailey Park, five floors of hotel rooms, ten floors of residential
- Sixth floor will have a pool and amenities
- Construction Start: Summer 2024
- Estimated Completion: Fall 2026
First Phase:
Second Phase:
Credit: WFBH
Freischlag Critical Care Tower Expansion (Ardmore / Hawthorne Hill)
- Developer: Atrium Health
- Architect: HKS Architects
- General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie
- Engineer: WSP
- Current Size: 327,174-square-feet
- Proposed Size After Expansion: 420,000-square-feet
- Will add floors to the top of the building, increasing the size by roughly 90,000-square-feet
Credit: Innovation Quarter
Neuroscience Research Center (IQ District) STREETCAR ROUTE - CYCLE TRACKS - * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL (LRT) *
- Architect: Perkins & Will
- Developer: Wexford Science & Technology
- General Contractor: Whiting-Turner
- Height: 7 Floors
- Currently seeking a director for the center (as-of October 28, 2022)
- It will promote world-class research, education, and community engagement
- It will bring together different components of interdisciplinary neuroscience research, across multiple entities and areas
- These include clinical (I.E., Neurology, Neurosurgery, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Psychiatry), preclinical, basic science, community, and population health
- This will also be an educational facility, with undergraduate, graduate, medical, and post-graduate degrees offered
- They also want to be involved in partnerships with entrepreneurs and experts in public policy and philanthropy
- Uses: Research, Education, Medical, and Retail
- Construction Start: Early-2025
- Completion: 2027
Linden Center Biotech (IQ District)
- Developer: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Adaptive-reuse to flexible labs that can be subdivided
- Will have spaces for startups as well as space to scale life sciences and regenerative medicine companies
Credit: High Tide Capital
Loewy Building Apartments & Retail (Restaurant Row)
- Developer: High Tide Capital
- Renovation Architect: DJLU Architects
- General Contractor: Windsor Contracting
- Use: Apartments & Retail
- Residential Units: 56 apartments (8 will be affordable housing)
- Apartment Unit Size: Between 600 and 1,400-square-feet
- Retail: 10,000-square-feet of retail space, in four units, fronting Fourth Street
- Located in Opportunity Zone and qualifies for historic tax credits
- Last Tenant Move-out: Could be as-late-as September 29, 2024
- High Tide Capital will close on the Art Deco building on November 12, 2024
- Will have two large penthouse apartments, with 200-square-foot balconies
- Amenities: Co-working space, bike storage, storage units, gym, bar, movie screening room, and a tenant lounge
- Cost: $20 million
- Construction Start: August 2025
- Completion: August 2026
Downtown Marriott Hotel Renovation (Twin City Quarter)
- Developer: 1754 Properties
- Architect: C+TC Design Studio
- Cost: $5 million
- Renovations: Merge two meeting rooms into one larger meeting space, update the second floor restrooms, replace the ice machines, and update lighting & finishes
The Academy Hotel (Old Salem)
- Developer: Mayfair Street Partners
- Will convert the 94-year-old Salem Academy Building into an 86-room luxury boutique hotel and conference center, with a restaurant & bar
- Cost: $30 million
- Features: 250 seat auditorium, library lounge, banquet hall, and multiple meeting rooms
- Salem College is expected to own 85% of the hotel and it could make $1 million annually for scholarships and various campus projects
- Salem Academy is the oldest private school in North Carolina and the fourth-oldest boarding school in the United States
- Salem College will begin a $5 million capital campaign for the hotel
- Will seek historic tax credits and C-PACE financing in 2025
- Construction Start: Early-2026
- Completion: Late-2027
Credit: DPJ Residential
Brookhyrst Apartments (West End Village) EV CHARGING - STREETCAR ROUTE
- Developer: DPJ Residential
- Architect: Cline Design
- Investor: Chaucer Creek Capital / Don Curtis
- General Contractor: Samet Corp.
- Units: 337 Apartment Units
- Will hide a massive parking deck built for the downtown ballpark
- Cost: $98.7 million
- Construction Start: ON HOLD
Credit: DPJ Residential
The Byrum Apartments (Industry Hill) EV CHARGING - BIKE COMMUTER LINE
- Developer: DPJ Residential
- Investor: Chaucer Creek Capital
- Architect: Axiom Architecture
- Units: 289 Apartment Units centered around three courtyards
- One courtyard will have the pool and grilling stations while the other two courtyards are for passive recreation
- Amenities: Saltwater pool, lounge and cantina with roll-up doors, dog park, pickleball court, fitness center & yoga room, EV charging, and a pet spa
- Will replace an old warehouse
- Size: 449,009 square-feet
- Cost: $103.7 million
- Demolition Start: June 21, 2024
- Construction Start: ON HOLD
Credit: dwell design studio
Metropolitan Mixed-use (East Side) EV CHARGING - STREETCAR ROUTE
- Developer: Liberty Atlantic Group
- Architect: dwell design studio
- General Contractor: West River Construction
- Investors: Liberty Atlantic Group - Atrium Health - APG Capital - Pinnacle Bank
- Residential Units: 324 Apartments
- First Phase Cost: $65 million
- Total Cost: Over $100+ million
- The project is being designed for entrepreneurs and remote or hybrid workers
- Uses: Office space, two pocket parks, townhouses, co-working space, a startup incubator, conference space, health care tenant, and two apartment buildings with ground floor retail
- Has a transit stop and is in walking distance of downtown's IQ District
- Atrium Health has leased the office space in this development (office space is 100% leased)
- Amenities: Electric vehicle charging stations, bike stations, and co-working space for residents
- The Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity has signed a lease for space in the development
- Demolition Start: March 2022
- Construction Start: September 22, 2022
- First Phase Completion: January 2024
- Second Phase Completion: March 2024
Entrepreneurship Building (Reynolda)
- Developer: Wake Forest University
- Will use a $30 million donation to help construct this project
- The university can double course offerings while reducing class size
- They can also expand classroom space, workshop space, and collaborative learning spaces for entrepreneurship
- This new building will include space for their early-stage accelerator program (Springboard) and Startup Lab
Credit: Steele Group Architects
Brown School Lofts at Legacy Heights (East Side)
- Formerly "Eleventh Street Townhouses & Apartments"
- Architect: Steele Group Architects
- Early Phases - General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Later Phases - General Contractor: John G. Johnson Construction
- Five phase apartment and townhome development that will replace a former public school building
- Will include $875,000 for public art/sculpture
- First Phase: 81 Residential Units
- Second Phase: 72 Residential Units
- Cost: $180 million
- Demolition Start: November 2021
- Financing Acquired: February 2022
- First Phase Construction Start: December 6, 2022
- First Phase Completion: February 2024
- Second Phase Start: April 2024
Credit: Tate Architecture
Tannery Mill Apartments
- Architect: Tate Architecture
- Landscape Architect: MLA Design Group
- Residential Units: 180
Credit: City of Winston-Salem
Heritage Park
- Developer: Grand Silo Development
- Architect: Planworx
- Apartments reaching up to four storeys in height
Credit: Davie Construction
Sandbox VR Downtown (Restaurant Row)
- Architect: Alliance Architecture of the Triad
- General Contractor: Davie Construction Co.
- Sandbox VR is an immersive experience, that allows you to enter your favorite TV/streaming shows, movies, and games
- Some of those blank walls will be removed, so the building meets the sidewalk better than it does currently
- The building will be repainted
- Completion: July 2026
10 West Third (Financial District)
- Architect: Illya Alexieff Architecture
- General Contractor: L&L Construction
- It will be renovated with new doors, new HVAC, and new electrical
- Blue Pearl Restaurant will open on the first floor and the basement
- Construction Start: November 2024
Realty Building Apartments (Restaurant Row)
- Architect: Abbotts Creek Studio
- Uses: Adaptive-reuse of a 1922 office building (Patten / Realty Building) into 11 Apartments and Retail
- Existing retail tenant will stay
- Construction Start: On Hold
Credit: WFBH
WFBH Eye Institute (IQ District) BIKE COMMUTER LINE
- Developer: Wake Forest University / Medical Center
- General Contractor: Rogers Builders
- Architect: EwingCole
- Size: Will lease 165,000-square-feet of the 242,000-square-foot space
- State-of-the-art clinical and teaching facility for the university
- Will bring over 100,000 eye patients from five states to downtown Winston-Salem's IQ District
- The new facility will have a basic-science research platform to investigate new treatments for ophthalmic diseases
- Will have a large teaching space that can seat up to 100 students and several smaller education rooms
- Designed for around 200-250 students as well as visiting students from other universities
- Will partner with the state community college system to offer advanced hands-on learning opportunities for ophthalmic technician students
- Their goal is to establish a new world-class clinical and educational Eye Institute for the region
- Clinical research will continue and expand in the new downtown building
- Plans include a surgical wet lab, 4 operating rooms, conference rooms, and simulators
- Dedicated space for clinical trials and will be a federal and industry sponsored research center
- Will include a 20,165-square-foot outpatient surgery center for ophthalmology procedures, otolaryngology, and plastic surgery
- Plans also include two minor procedure rooms, a LASIK procedure room, and 20 recovery rooms
- 71% of the patients visiting the facility to be from outside Forsyth County
- Will have a cafeteria open to patients and their families
- Will have showers, bike storage, and shared bikes for bicycle commuters
- Designed to be easy to navigate for the visually impaired
- Two operating rooms will move from Hawthorne Hill to this building's basement
- Designed to double the number of operating rooms in the future
- The first floor: Ambulatory Surgery Center and Sterile Processing Department
- Floors 2-4: Office space, exam rooms, and a pharmacy
- Building Acquisition Cost: $28.5 million
- Construction Cost: $70 million
- Construction Start: June 2, 2025
- Completion: July 2026
- First procedures starting in July 2026
Credit: Sentinel Commons
Sentinel Commons (Twin City Quarter) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Developer: Bill Benton & Leslie Baker
- Architect: Lambert A+I & Oliver Design Studio
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- The top two floors will become co-working space and office space
- Proposed as a hub for media, digital, and creative companies
- Winston-Salem Festival Ballet has leased the third floor and will have programing in the building
- Will renovate courtyard into a beer garden
- The basement will become a large food hall
- Developer is in talks to bring a downtown grocery store to the building
- The ground floor will become a bowling alley and sports bar
Credit: CPL Team
Clarkson Research Campus
- Architect: CPL Team
- General Contractor: Whiting-Turner
- Size: 200 acres
- Will enhance and expand research capabilities for three major Wake Forest University programs (Animal Research, Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and Pathology/Comparative Medicine)
- The site is currently home to 600 large animals across 35 buildings
- Research focuses on infectious diseases, Alzheimer’s, hypertension, diabetes, addiction, and radiation-related illnesses
- Will increase research capacity by 25% in the next decade and spur groundbreaking insights and discoveries, boosting comprehension of health and disease at a broader level
1782 George Stockburger House Restoration (West Salem)
- Restore 241 year old house
- Construction Start: January 2023
1769 Single Brothers House Restoration (Old Salem)
- Developer: Old Salem Inc.,.
- Cost: $628,956 for structural stabilization, masonry repair, and conservation of original materials
- Will use a matching grant from the National Park Service to fund the restoration
1803 Distillery Restoration (Bethabara Park)
- Developer: Bethabara Park
- This is one of the oldest distilleries in the United States at 222 years old!
- Use: The roof will be replaced and the building will become a museum
- The roof alone will cost $85,000
1782 Potters House (Bethabara Park)
- Restoration Architect: Michael Graves
- Developer: Bethabara Park
- Received a $500,000 grant from the National Park Service's Semiquincentennial Grant Program
- It will require additional donations and grants
AI generated rendering of what it could look like, when finished:
Credit: bethabarapark
1753 Hans Wagner Cabin Reconstruction (Bethabara Park)
- Developer: Bethabara Park
- Reconstruct the original cabin the Moravians stayed in, 272 years ago, while constructing what is now Bethabara Park
- Funds are being raised to reconstruct the cabin
- Hans Wagner and this cabin were there before the Moravians arrived
Credit: Second Serving Studios
Second Serving Studios (Restaurant Row)
- Developer and Executive Director: Jake Camp
- Location: 411 West Fourth Street
- Use: A production studio specializing in cooking shows, food documentaries, culinary education shows, and programming for food brands
- Cost: $3.8 million
- Includes a 1,000-square-foot studio designed for food and cooking productions, with an audience space, where cabinets and set pieces can be quickly customized
- It will also include a full prep kitchen, a podcast studio, a green room, editing bays, live control room, and audio mixing room
Credit: WFIQ
The Railyard - Innovation Quarter (IQ District)
- Developer: Front Street Capital
- Planned as an attraction for pedestrians and cyclists in downtown
- Will be constructed on the city's bike path network, connecting to many neighborhoods and attractions around the city
- Uses: Downtown retail, restaurant, and entertainment center, with art galleries and a climbing wall
Credit: Cross Street Partners
1001 (West Salem) CYCLE TRACKS
- Developers: Cross Street Partners | Black Pine Development
- Architect: CJMW
- General Contractor: Rehab Builders
- Adaptive-reuse of the 1924 Bahnson Company Building
- Space for startups, artists, makers, engineers, clothing designers, growers, restaurateurs, entrepreneurs, and retailers
- Find Stemz will move their headquarters to this building
- GAIA Conceptions, an organic clothing company, will relocate their headquarters, design center, and manufacturing operations to Winston-Salem in a space in this building
- Includes a 200 seat black box theatre and The Craneway arts venue space leading into the black box theatre
- Interval, a tenant, will be a space for visual, musical, dance, and overlaps and intersections among arts and artists
- The black box theatre and The Craneway can host a variety of arts and film programing
- UNCSA will open a Film Lab in the building, Sawtooth Arts Center will open a collaborative Textiles Lab in the building, and the Kenan Institute will open an expanded Creative Community Lab
- The building will host several community arts programs in dance, music, and theatre for people of all ages
- Is seeking National Register of Historic Places designation and tax credits
- Construction Start: Stemz will start construction on their space in Spring 2024
One of three buildings to be renovated into a mixed-use development:
Credit: GSV
Canal Drive Apartments (Northwest Industrial District)
- Developer: Eagan & Sons (David Eagan / CMC)
- Buildings to be demolished: 1040 and 1064 Northwest Boulevard and 1149 Canal Drive
- Closing: Late March 2018
- The developer will demolish the three existing buildings at the site and build a new construction mixed-use building
- Will have underground parking, ground floor retail, 100 apartments on the upper floors, a pet spa, bicycle storage, a dog park, and resident storage lockers
- Site is located between Hanes Park and West End Millworks
1010 Northwest Apartments (Northwest Industrial District)
- Developer: Ampere Capital Group
- A car-free market-rate apartment development
- Adaptive-reuse of an existing 1950s office building
Credit: SBER
1007 South Marshall (West Salem) CYCLE TRACKS
- Developers: Cross Street Partners
- Architect: Foundry Architects
- Original 1927 Architect: Northup & O'Brien
- Cost: $14 million
- Adaptive reuse of the former Atlantic Greyhound Bus Garage, built in 1927, into a Fresh Food Hub & Retail Space
- Will have outdoor dinning space fronting the city's pedestrian and bicycle path network and have an access to it
- The developer will restore the original skylights and add solar panels to the roof
- Is seeking National Register of Historic Places designation and tax credits
- Construction Start: June 2024
- Completion: late-Fall 2024
3401 Indiana Avenue (Reynolda)
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Adaptive reuse of the former Dudley Theatrical Equipment Company Building
821 East 25th Street
- Developer: Dancy/RDG Acquisitions
- Uses: Co-warehousing and maybe a makerspace
- This project will likely require City assistance (loan to be repaid)
Credit: visitthegrounds
The Grounds Office Building (LJVM Sports & Entertainment Complex)
- Architect: Nelson Worldwide
- Developer: Front Street Capital / Carter USA
- General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie
- Size: 131,174-square-feet of office space
- Cost: $80 million
- Location: 511 Deacon Boulevard
- 400 employees are expected to work here
- Height: 6 floors, including mechanical floor
- Office space is fully leased to Wake Forest University
- Infrastructure Completion: August 2025
- Construction Start: December 2025
- Office Building Completion: July 2027
Credit: Urban Development Group
Salem Crest
- Developer: Urban Development Group
- Apartments: 135 units in two buildings
The Residences at Indiana Avenue
- Developer: Wynnefield Properties
- Apartments: 180 units
- Amenities: Storage spaces for residents
Pilgrim Court Mixed-use (Boston-Thurmond)
- Architect: Alliance Architecture of the Triad
- General Contractor: Magnolia Construction
- One of the two office buildings will become Sunbird-branded self storage
- The other office building will remain office space
- Undeveloped office lots will become residential and retail, with 121 townhouse units
- Construction Start: December 2024
The Lofts at Motor Road
- Developer: Wynnefield Properties
- Architect: Martin Riley Associates
- Apartments: 216 units
- Cost: $42 million
Link Apartments Research Parkway (IQ District) STREETCAR ROUTE - CYCLE TRACKS - * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL (LRT) *
- Developer: Grubb Properties
- General Contractor: Samet Corporation
- Uses: Apartments - Retail
- Will be used to hide a massive public parking deck for neighboring downtown science/research buildings
- Units: 300
Credit: stitchdesignshop
Salem Cohousing (West Salem)
- Architect: Stitch Design Shop
- Uses: Communal living
- It is designed to address housing affordability issues in Winston-Salem
Credit: Front Street Capital
Union Cross Development (Alliance Science & Technology Park)
- Developer: Front Street Capital
- Size: A 300,000-square-foot speculative (spec) building and two smaller buildings
- Advanced Manufacturing Site
- Requirement from the City to lease to tenant(s) generating the most jobs
- Construction Start on 300,000-square-foot building: September 2025
- Completion on the 300,000-square-foot building: Second Quarter 2026
Credit: Novant Health
Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Renovation
- Developer: Novant Health
- Cost: $181.4 million
- Novant Health will renovate patient rooms and construct new patient rooms, make sustainability improvements to building systems, and a major renovation of the Women & Children's Institute & Innovation Center
- This project also includes expansions to neurology and stroke care, heart and vascular center, and oncology
- They will build an obstetrics emergency department
- They will expand the medical center's kitchen
- They will build a new central energy plant
- Construction Start: August 2020
- Women & Children's Institute & Innovation Center Completed: August 2023
- Work Starting on Cancer Institute: August 2023
- Full Completion: 2027
North Carolina High School for the Arts Dorm (Sunnyside)
- Developer: State of North Carolina
- High School Dormitory for the state's best young artists
- Will replace a building from 1965
- Units: 200
- Cost: $24.5 million
- Design Start:
- Construction Start: Fall 2027
Credit: C.A. Harrison Companies
Whitaker Park Hotel & Mixed-use (Tiretown)
- Developer: Frye Properties
- A $25 million, 125 key Marriott flag hotel
- 150-200 new construction apartments
- 25,000 square feet of retail
- A grocery store is planned
- Multi-phase project
- The full project could cost up to $100 million
- Construction Start: Fall 2024
- Full Completion: 2026
Credit: HKS Architects
Brenner Childrens Hospital Outpatient Center
- Developer: WFBH
- Architect: HKS Architects
- Will have comprehensive pediatric clinics and services, including imaging, over a dozen specialties and subspecialties, lab and pharmacy services
Credit: WPDA
Whitaker Park Mixed-use Project (Reynolda) * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL (LRT) *
- Landscape Architect: Stimmel Associates
- Adaptive Reuse of 1.7 million square feet of buildings
- Total square-footage, including new construction, could exceed 2.5 million square-feet
- Brennan Investment Group will build a new 130,000 square-foot building
- Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology & Molecular Materials will move to the 630-2 Lab Building
- Workplaces, 10 Retail Spaces, a possible hotel, and Around 300-350 Residential Units are planned
- Street changes planned
- Could Attract 15,000 New Jobs
- Project could cost $500 million
- Phase I is completed
Credit: visitthegrounds
The Grounds (LJVM Sports & Entertainment Complex) * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL *
- Developer: Carter / Front Street Capital partnership
- Architect: Nelson Worldwide
- General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie
- Cost: Could reach $1 billion when completed
- Replace parking lots and outdated buildings with a mixed-use entertainment & retail district
- First Phase Mixed-use, including 25 condominiums, 42,000-square-feet of retail/restaurant space, 130,500-square-feet of office space, and entertainment
- Planned for streets around the existing football stadium, University Corporate Center, coliseum, tennis complex, annex, and baseball stadium
- Will include a new pedestrian greenway connecting to the Wake Forest campus
- A retention pond water feature will be constructed along the greenway
- Changes will be made to the street grid around the sports facilities
- Will include a rail stop on the proposed North-South Passenger Rail line
- Developer has 10-year option to purchase the development
- 67 acres or more in size (Possibly 178 acres?)
- Received $35 million from the State Budget in 2023
- First Phase Construction Start: December 7, 2024
- Second Phase Construction Start: Summer 2025
- First Phase Completion: Summer 2026
- Second Phase Completion: Summer 2027
Credit: Nelson Worldwide
Creekside at the Grounds (LJVM Sports & Entertainment Complex) * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL *
- Developer: Carter / Front Street Capital partnership
- Architect: The Preston Partnership
- General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie
- Cost: $215 million
- This Second Phase will include 229 furnished apartments with 521 beds
- Construction Start: August 2025
- Completion: Fall 2027
Learning Commons
- Developer: Forsyth Tech
- Architect: Smith Sinnett Architecture
- General Contractor: Balfour Beatty
- Cost: $30 million
- Uses: New library and classroom structure
- Requires the demolition of six existing out-dated buildings
- Will include a courtyard/park with an outdoor event space with seating, a visible educational stormwater feature, and a half mile of walking paths
- The college of 13,500 students is currently planning their next growth phase
- Construction Start: Summer 2024
- Completion: Fall 2026.
Credit: Stimmel Associates
First Baptist Church Restoration (Twin City Quarter) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Landscape Architect: Stimmel Associates
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Construct a 4,200 square foot multi-function space and an outdoor chapel where the 1954 and 1961 expansions are currently located
- Demolition Start: June 4, 2018
- First Phase Completion: January 2020
- Second Phase Construction Start: December 2025
Credit: MUSE Winston-Salem
Muse Winston-Salem (Brookstown)
- Architect: Michael Graves Architecture
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Proposed city history museum for downtown
- Muse Winston-Salem will be the
Museum of
Understanding,
Storytelling, &
Engagement
- The museum will lease and renovate 13,000-square-feet of a former Federal Building at the proposed Oliver Park
- The museum will have several galleries used for changing exhibits, hands-on activies, spaces for performances and lectures, and it will feature augmented and virtual reality
- The museum will include a recording studio to record oral history
- The museum will take advantage of the pedestrian and bicycle paths at their front door to offer walking tours
- The pedestrian and bike paths that intersect in this location create a bike and pedestrian cultural corridor, connecting several museums, universities, parks, and attractions
- Exhibits include a 1905 horse-drawn fire engine; The Safe Bus immersive experience; and a visiting exhibit space that can be rented (and has the stained-glass window from the airport on display)
- Will have The Sounds of Winston-Salem music listening room, featuring local music that includes everything from Moravian music to today's rock and hip-hop artists
- Museum Office Move-in February 2020
- Completed Museum Space: September 2026
Credit: Glenn Fulk
African-American History Museum (Happy Hill / Liberia)
- Developer: Triad Cultural Arts
- Architect: Glenn Fulk
- Renovate two historic shotgun houses into a new African-American history museum
- Will collect and share the stories of neighborhood residents
- Also includes a community center, observation deck, and pavilion
- Second shotgun house will remain and become a ghost structure
- Observation Deck designed to be seen from I-285 and WSSU
- Construction Start: April 2024
- Shotgun House Completion: February 27, 2025
Credit: Liberian Organization of the Piedmont
Liberian Student Dormitory (Happy Hill / Liberia)
- Developer: Liberian Organization of the Piedmont
- Architect: Michael Graves/Walter Robbs
- A 20 bed dormitory for students from Liberia who are studying at colleges in Winston-Salem
Performing Arts Center (Theatre District)
- Arts Council of Winston-Salem
- Includes 700 seat replacement theatre for the Little Theatre
- Cost: $19 million
- Underground Parking
Credit: Robert A.M. Stern Architects LLP
Stevens Center Renovation (Theate District) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Architects First Phase: Steinberg Hart / Little Diversified
- Architects Second Phase: Steinberg Hart / Jenkins Peer Architects
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction and W.C. Construction
- Mixed-use Development, With Graduate Student Housing, Guest Artist Residences, Retail, and Performing Arts Uses
- Larger lobby (three times larger) and renovated performing arts center on the ground floor
- Latest technology and repair of the historic facade
- Will add a third seating level to the theatre
- The top two floors of the tower will have lights and will glow on the skyline at night
- After renovation, this is expected to become a major regional cultural attraction
- New Theatre Marquee & Side Canopy (designed based on the original 1920s marquee & side canopy)
- Will recreate the original 1928 blade sign on the corner of the tower
- A redesigned proscenium will enhance acoustics and the venue will also have immersive video and sound
- This side of downtown will become a new arts-based entrepreneurs quarter, similar to the Innovation Quarter, creating arts-based start-ups
- Cost: $100 million
- State Funding: $87.8 million
- First Phase Construction Start: November 15, 2023
- Second Phase Construction Start: February 2027
- Completion: 2029
N.C. Museum of Art - Winston-Salem Renovation (Reynolda)
- Developer: State of North Carolina
- Architects: Szostak Design and STITCH Design Shop
- Landscape Architect: Mud Landscape Architecture
- The N.C. General Assembly provided $15 million to renovate Winston-Salem's N.C. Museum of Art
- Will improve accessibility, upgrade museum technology, create flexible learning experiences, add in-house residency facilities for regional artists, and improve outdoor spaces
- Will add a "glass cafe" to the Hanes House and construct a trail network on the property
- Will open a downtown location, on Fourth Street, and the 'People's Collection' (State Art Collection in Raleigh) will rotate through their Winston-Salem museum
- Will open a downtown museum, to be upfitted by Frank L. Blum Construction, at 400 West Fourth Street
- Construction Start: February 1, 2027
- Completion August 1, 2028
- Downtown Museum Start: February 2026
Williams Auditorium (Columbian Heights)
- Developer: State of North Carolina
- 1,600 seat auditorium
- Cost: $57 million
- Completion: 2028
Pegram Hall Renovation
- Developer: State of North Carolina
- Renovate the building and install a new elevator
- Cost: $16 million
- Completion: 2028
Eller Hall Renovation (Columbian Heights)
- Developer: State of North Carolina
- Renovate the building and install a new elevator
- Cost: $10.8 million
- Completion: 2028
Credit: Michael Graves Architecture & Design
New Brunson Downtown Elementary School (Produce District)
- Developer: Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- Architect: Michael Graves Architecture & Design / Walter Robbs
- General Contractor: Shelco
- Landscape Architect: Stimmel
- Engineering: SKA Consulting
- MEP Engineer: WGR Engineers and Consultant Engineering Services
- Size: 103,500-square-feet / 500 Students
- To be clad in brick and metal panels
- Land Cost: $2.2 million
- Construction Cost: $39.4 million
- Is a brownfields project and will reuse the Thomasville Furniture Factory site
- Will have a $75,000 sculpture in the lobby
- Demolition Start: First Quarter 2023
- Construction Start: September 2024
- Ground Breaking: Late-February 2025
- Completion: December 2026
Credit: Walter Robbs
Ram's Point Apartments & Retail (East End)
- Developer: MTB3 Properties
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Size: 33,000 square-feet
- Use: 28 Apartments and 11,000 square-feet of Retail
- Amenities: Fitness center, granite counter tops, and a rooftop green space with a view of the skyline
Wachovia Residences (West Salem)
- Developer: Reich Brothers
- Adaptive-reuse of a 1910 neighborhood grocery building into residential units
- Units: Four apartments
- No parking spaces / car-free
Crystal Towers Renovation (West Side)
- Developer: HAWS
- Architect: Steele Group Architects
- General Contractor: Whiting-Turner
- Will replace elevators, update building systems, and renovate the Mid-Century Modern exterior
- Elevator replacement alone will cost around $1 million
- The exterior will be restored and modernized
- Plans and cost estimate for renovation expected: Summer 2024
City Training Center (East Side)
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Cost: $5-6 million
- The City will build a training center to help fill vacant job positions
- Degrees, certifications, and endorsements will be offered
- After completing/passing the educational program, the City will hire you
- Will partner with multiple educational organizations to provide the training
College Academic Commons (Reynolda) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Developer: Wake Forest University
- A new humanities building with academic departments and 17 classrooms, the Program for Leadership and Character, the Office of Academic Advising, and the university's scholarship offices
- The building will be designed with removable walls and the ability to change the size of the classrooms from small spaces to 100 student spaces to one-tiered lecture halls to guest speaking venues
- Will have a new fresh-food dining hall
Freestanding ER (University)
- Developer: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
- Size: 11,532-square-feet
- Cost: $33.2 million
- Will operate 24/7
- Will have 8 exam rooms, 2 patient observation rooms, a fixed X-ray unit, a mobile X-ray unit, a CT scanner, 2 mobile ultrasound units, emergency laboratory and pharmacy services, and family waiting areas
- Construction Start: July 2026
- Completion: January 2028.
Health Simulation Lab (Old Salem)
- Developer: Salem College
- Salem College is planning a Health Simulation Lab for students to experience the clinical environment
Salem College Sports (Old Salem)
- Developer: Salem College
- The college will construct three new beach volleyball courts, along with pathways and a wash station
Salem College Innovation Lab (Old Salem)
- Developer: Salem College
- This proposed space is described as something similar to a makerspace, with options such as 3D printing and laser cutting, as examples
May Dell Amphitheater Renovation (Old Salem)
- Developer: Salem College
- Project includes new paving, boardwalk paths, and a covered stage
- Cost: $250,000.
Belews Creek Nuclear Power Plant
- Developer: Duke Energy
- North Carolina's first nuclear power plant in 36 years
- Announcement Expected: August 2023
- Early Site Permit from Nuclear Regulatory Commission: June 2025
- Used nuclear fuel will be cooled in enclosed steel-lined concrete pools for 7-10 years and then stored on site in concrete storage containers that can withstand extreme events
- GE Hitachi has agreed to invest in the technology with Duke Energy
- This project will seek Federal funding
- Construction Start: 2030
- Reactor Operational: 2034
- Emission-free Operation: 2036
DTE Renewable Energy Power Plant
- Developer: DTE Renewable Energy
- A renewable energy power plant project
- Will sell renewable energy to other power companies
NextEra Energy Water Recycling Plant
- Developer: NextEra Energy Resources
- A wastewater recycling plant, capable of recycling over 60 million gallons a year
Hanes-Lowrance Building
- Adaptive-reuse project will create 100,000 square-feet of tech office space
- 1920's building will be converted into an educational-tech office building
- Will include a model classroom, allowing educators to see and use the tech in a classroom setting
Credit: STITCH Design Shop
Downtown Amphitheatre (Twin City Quarter)
- Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- Partners: Special Event Services & Live Nation
- Size: 5,048 seat amphitheatre (200 seats in VIP box suites and 4,848 seats in three tiers)
- Six food truck spaces inside the gates (with utility connections)
- A sizeable grass site with shaded seating and beer vendors
- Can host large downtown concerts under the stars
- Cost: $25 million
- November 17, 2025: Grading and erosion control measures
- July 2026: Construction Start
- May 2027: Completion/First Show
Credit: John Coyne / TDC
Skateboard/BMX Park
- A feasibility study will be conducted for a national competition level Skateboard and BMX park in downtown Winston-Salem
- It will be designed to host major national-level competitions
- A playground and a running/walking track will also be studied as a separate project
Winston Square Park Amphitheatre Renovation (Theatre District) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Enlargement - Sculpture - Lighting
Winston Lake Park Renovations
- Golf Course Renovation Cost: $11.5 million, including $3.8 million to rebuild all 19 greens
- Golf Renovation Includes: New tee complexes, new cart paths, a new irrigation system, and new grasse
- Will remove trees to improve and restore the course
Miller Park Renovations
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Design & Engineering: STEWART
- Will renovate the existing trails/walkways and restrooms
- This includes cross slope grading for the trails, work on erosion controls, and tree removal around the trails
Event Center & Food Truck Park (Produce District)
- Developer: KB Holdings Development
- General Contractor: Now Pro Construction
- Location 1243 North Patterson Avenue
- Adaptive-reuse to an 8,000-square-foot event center and a commissary kitchen for food trucks
- They are collaborating with Winston-Salem Filipino Chef Joe Olson, of Kuya Bear Foods, to bring their vision to life
- The space next to the building will become a food truck park for 20 food trucks, as well as vendors
- The developer will add picnic tables, live music, movies, a beer garden, and games, such as pickleball courts
- It will also become a pick-up location for home delivery services
- Developer is considering other projects at neighboring sites
- Will use Opportunity Zone financing
- First Phase (Food Trucks & Games/Entertainment) Completion: September 2024
- Event Center Completion: December 2024
- Commissary Kitchen Completion: February 2025.
Performing Arts Park (Theatre District)
- Developer: Arts Council of Winston-Salem
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Water Feature
Credit: Creative Corridors
Oliver Cycling Park (Brookstown)
- Landscape Architect: Walter Hood
- A park where two bike & walking paths intersect, near Liberty & Cemetery streets
- Will feature heritage landscaping, civic and arts space, contemplative space, and an outdoor museum, with art installations and interpretive elements
- The Pavilion is 1.278 acres and 55,656-square-feet in size
- Will have a legacy wall with the Oliver family history
- Cost for Current Phase: Estimated at $10 million
- Construction Start: June 2025
Credit: Innovation Quarter
Fogle Commons / IQ Infrastructure (IQ District)
- Architect: Stimmel Associates
- Developer: Wexford Science & Technology
- General Contractor: Whiting-Turner / W.C. Construction Company
- Space for live music, arts, performances, academic, and corporate events
- Will have programed entertainment and events
- Construction Start: September 2023
- Completion: October 2024
Cloverleaf Park (IQ District)
- Design: Stimmel Associates
- Will include a bike and walking path
- Construction Start: 2024
Horizons Park Renovations
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Trails for pedestrians and horses will be constructed
- An area for horse trailers will also be constructed
Credit: ArchSTUDIO7 / OSSA Studio
Liberty Plaza Renovation (Financial District)
- Developer: Mayfair Street Partners
- General Contractor: OmniVerus
- Clean and paint the exterior of the building to modernize it
- Create an outdoor dining transition area between Liberty Park Sensory Garden and the ground floor restaurants
- Renovate the ground floor lobby and the elevator lobbies on each floor
- Work started: July 2023
Corpening Plaza Water Gardens & Park Renovation (Financial District)
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- A renovation of the park and water features
- Cost: $4.2 million
Credit: CBRE Heery
Government District Linear Park (Government District) CYCLE TRACKS - * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL (LRT) *
- Developer: Forsyth County
- Would create a view corridor to the new courthouse
Credit: NCDOT
Interstate 285 (IQ District)
- Developer: NCDOT
- Upgrade the John Gold Expressway into an Interstate
- 6-lane Interstate (3 in each direction)
- Right-of-way acquisition: 2027
- Utility Relocation: 2028
- Construction Start: 2029
- Creative Corridors will add lighting, artwork, decorative features, brick, and more to the project
- New Third Street and Fourth Street bridges will be upgraded with protected bicycle lanes and an enhanced pedestrian experience
- Fifth Street will become a transit priority route and won't have bike lanes, but will have an enhanced pedestrian experience
- To upgrade U.S. 52 to Interstate Standards, they must raise the downtown bridges to meet Interstate clearance requirements
- Metropolitan Drive and Earline Parmon Drive will both close between Fourth and Fifth streets, due to raising the bridges
- The speed limit will decrease on Third Street from 35 mph to 25 mph
- Seeking a $586,960 planning grant from Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods for the three downtown bridges (local match is required)
Interstate 74
- Developer: NCDOT
- Completion: Fall 2026
Interstate 274
- Developer: NCDOT
- Half of this project could be under construction by 2032
- Construction Start: 2030
Shallow Ford Historic Site
- Developer: The Conservation Fund of Arlington, Va., and Sons of the American Revolution
- They are raising money to convert this into a North Carolina State Park
- The Shallow Ford was a river crossing for the Yadkin River in the 1700s
- It's where the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road crossed the Yadkin River
- This is where Lord Charles Cornwallis led British troops across the Yadkin River into Winston-Salem / Forsyth County in February 1781
- They would like to have the park completed and interpreted in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution
- They would like to add historic signage, trails along the Yadkin River State Trail, and an access for river canoeing
Morris Building (IQ District) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Developer: Front Street Capital
- Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- General Contractor: Landmark Builders
- Renovation Cost: $8 Million
- Developer is working to bring national restaurant/retailers to this project
- Uses: Retail/Restaurants/Entertainment
- Signed an option to purchase with a required closing date of January 30, 2026 or earlier
Salem Bottling Works (West Salem)
- Developer: Jared Rogers / QAH Group
- Architect: CJMW Architects
- General Contractor: LMI Builders
- Will renovate the 1920s Coca-Cola Building into a restaurants with apartments, an event space, and hotel rooms on the top floor
- Outdoor courtyard will have spaces for live music and entertainment
- May have a carousel
- Will have a 1,000 square-foot balcony with skyline views
- Will have outdoor and rooftop seating with skyline views
- Front door will be restored as the main entrance
- Look for a bakery, chocolatier, pizzeria, a find dining restaurant, and a ramen restaurant
- Look for charred and chilled seafood, salads, and soft-serve ice cream
- Bobby Boy Bakeshop has leased here and will have their commercial kitchen in this building
- Will be landmarked and restored to its original 1929 appearance with the 1940s wings restored to their original appearance
- A 1956 Coke vending machine in the building will be restored and displayed
- Construction Start: March 2023
- Partial Opening: April 2025
- Grandpa John’s Pizzeria and Gelato will open in early-July 2025
- Completion: late-April 2026
Alternative Transportation Options: (Bus - Pedestrian - Bicycle - Rail):
Source: HDR & City of Winston-Salem
Rail Streetcar System Discuss in the Streetcar Thread By Clicking On This Link 
- Labeled As "Streetcar Route" On Projects Listed On This Thread
- Contractor: Edilon)(Sedra
- Vehicles: 8 Streetcars
- Track: 8 miles (13 Kilometers)
- Final Cost: $179 million
- Currently seeking funding sources
- City needs $52 million
- Construction Start: In the next six years
Credit: Stimmel Associates
Credit: Design Collective
North-South Rail Transit System
- Public-Private Partnership between IQ District developers & universities and the city
- Labeled As "Future Light Rail" On Projects Listed On This Thread
- The project may have to use streetcars/trams instead of LRT, depending on the route
- First Phase connecting WSSU, the LJVM Sports Complex and Wake Forest University to downtown's IQ District
- Second Phase to Baptist Health University Medical Center, Forsyth Medical Center and Hanes Mall
- Dedicated Right of Way in all phases
- Will be double-tracked for most of the route
- First Phase will reuse the former Norfolk & Western rail line
- WSP Engineering hired to research and design the first phase of the project
- Length of First Phase: 5.4 miles / 8.7 kilometres
- First Phase Cost: $235 million
- A small segment was completed in downtown in April 2018, as part of another project, but won't be used until entire system is completed
Regional Commuter Rail
- Not Labeled
- Dedicated Right of Way
- Still in Vision Stage
- Senate Bill 520 would start the early processes to study, design, and build a Commuter Rail System in Winston-Salem
- Rails Preserved by Regional Transit Authority
Amtrak at Union Station (Columbian Heights)
- Winston-Salem is one of 10 or 12 cities being considered for passenger rail expansion through the USDOT Federal Railroad administration's Corridor Identification and Development Program
- The train station is already completed and ready and would rank among the top historic Amtrak stations in the Carolinas
- The 20% match for an 80/20 federal grant to complete the Winston-Salem to Raleigh route is $85,328,800
- Currently in Study Phase and could enter the State TIP in 5-10 years (2031-2036)
Rails-to-Trails Bicycle Commuter Highway Expansion
Winston-Salem's High Line (IQ District)
- Landscape Architect: Stimmel Associates
- Architect: Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc.
- Engineering: HDR
- Will expand an existing elevated bike and pedestrian landscaped path from downtown's IQ District to Smith Reynolds Airport
- Rail line will be preserved for a future Light Rail Transit (LRT) line
- The City was awarded a RAISE Grant for this project
- City wants to explore extending the path north of Twenty-Fifth Street
- Residents along the path are twice as likely to commute by bicycling or walking and four times as likely to commute by public transportation
- Design Start: September 2024
- Design Completion: Fall 2024
- Construction Start: Fourth Quarter 2024
- Completion: Fall 2026
Credit: Stimmel Associates
Rail Valley Pedestrian Bridge (IQ District) BIKE COMMUTER LINE - STREETCAR ROUTE
- Design: Stimmel Associates
- Connects Future Amphitheatre And IQ District Rail Station To Government District
- Shortcut To Streetcar Stop
- Construction Start: Summer 2024
- Completion: Summer 2025
Twin City Trail (Brookstown)
- General Contractor: Smith-Rowe Construction
- Labeled As "Cycle Tracks" On Projects Listed On This Thread
- Formerly "Salem Parkway Bike & Pedestrian Path"
- Will put cyclists on an equal footing with automobiles
- Includes pocket parks, bridges, and a tunnel
- Connects university medical center to the IQ District
- Includes a 400 foot/122 metre long bicycle flyover ramp
- Width: 12 feet wide (3.7 meters wide)
- Bicycle and Pedestrian Use
- Grade Separated
- Design & Engineering: RS&H Inc.
- Landscape Architect: Stimmel Associates
- Developer: NCDOT
- Cost: $15 million
- Construction Start: November 2018
- New Eastern-half Plans Finalized: Summer 2022
- Western-half Design Start: August 2022
- Western-half Plans Finalized: January 2024
- Construction Restart (Eastern-half): July 2, 2024
- Completion (Eastern-half): August 2025
- Construction Restart (Western-half): 2026
Salem Creek Greenway Extension
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Connect Forsyth Tech to Marketplace Mall and Downtown
- Distance: 1.17 miles
- Will include a tunnel under the parkway for cyclists and pedestrians
- Part of city project to connect all college & university campuses by bicycle and connect those campuses to downtown
- Federal funding covers 80% of total cost
- City will spend $200,000 to study extended the trail to become part of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail
Strollway-Long Branch Trail Connector (Financial District)
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Would connect The Strollway to Long Branch Trail
- Option 1: Town Run Lane to Third Street to Fogle Street
- Option 2: First Street, with a bridge connecting it to Long Branch Trail
- Option 3: Town Run Lane to Third Street to Main or Liberty Street to Fifth Street Street to Patterson Avenue to Seventh Street
- First Street to Patterson Avenue to Third Street and finally Fogle Street to connect to the Long Branch Trail
- All routes will be walked and biked to see the advantages and disadvantages of each.
The Grounds Long Branch Trail Connector (Produce District)
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- A bike and pedestrian path connecting the Long Branch Trail to the Midtown at Wake Forest development
Smith Reynolds Greenway:
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Seeking $300,000 for a greenway feasibility study
- The greenway would connect Bowen Boulevard to Lansing Drive.
Peters Creek Parkway Bike Path
- Connect Salem Parkway Bike & Pedestrian Path with Salem Creek Greenway Extension
- Will be constructed as grade-separated bicycle infrastructure beside Peters Creek Parkway
Credit: City of Winston-Salem
Downtown Streetscape
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Construction Drawings: Davenport Engineering
- General Contractor: Sharpe Brothers
- Design Team: San Francisco-based MIG (Moore Iacofano & Goltsman), Urbane Environments, Retail Advisory Services, and ColeJenest & Stone
- Completely redesign the streets, sidewalks, street furniture, lighting, signage, landscaping, etc.
- The city will also change several streets into two-way streets and will improve cycling infrastructure as part of this project
- City workers are installing protected bike lanes, using the sidewalk as a concrete barrier between cars and cyclists
- The historic Old Salem Neighborhood will have its streets restored to their original appearance
- Northwest Boulevard upgrades include landscaping, public art, bike lanes, and pedestrian safety upgrades
- Main and Liberty streets will have two-way Class IV Protected Cycle Tracks installed as part of this project
- Downtown Streetlight Installation: Summer 2026
- MLK Phase Design Completion: Early-2023
- MLK Phase right-of-way acquisition: September 30, 2024
- MLK Streetscape Improvements Construction Start: 2026
- Northwest Boulevard Improvements Construction Start: Summer 2026
Credit: City of Winston-Salem
Transit, Bike, & Pedestrian Improvements
- Consultant: ALTA Planning & Design
- Increase walking, cycling, and transit usage by 10%
- Improve safety for walking and cycling
- The City will soon begin work at 89 city intersections and the City will add more crosswalks
- RATP Dev USA will take-over operations of WSTA in 2025 with a five year contract
- WSTA is studying micro transit and may go beyond fixed-route services
- Better position transit stops
- 33 miles / 53 kilometers of funded bicycle infrastructure
- 6 funded Greenway projects
Yadkin Valley Regional Bicycle Plan
- Encourage bicycle tourism and economic development in Metro Winston-Salem
- Will connect all of the Yadkin River Valley counties with separated bicycle paths
- Would like to convert Norfolk-Southern L-Line in downtown Winston-Salem to a rail with trail project
- For every dollar spent on bike paths, that community gains $1.72 in economic benefits
L-Line Bike Path
- Plans to convert the Norfolk Southern L-Line into a bicycle and walking path
- Would connect downtown and West End to Hanes Mall and Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center
- Preserves the rail line for future rail transit or use by Norfolk Southern
- Requires approval from Norfolk Southern
Smith Reynolds Airport Projects (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: Airport Commission of Forsyth County
- Attract low-fare carriers to the airport
- Seek 'Legacy Airport' designation to gain more Federal funding
- Relocate Taxiway A 30 feet / 9.15 metres west and work on Taxiway F
- Remove terrain obstructions from one of the runways
- $6 million taxilane and ramp to the new aviation college
- A new study will find the best uses for airport-owned land
- They would like to build a hanger for electric VTOL aircraft
- Add a new hangar for single-engine planes, helicopters and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft
- Develop 64 acres on the eastern side of the airport for an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) project
- Use land at Akron Drive and Liberty Street for a new building with flexible uses, including an aviation business incubator
- The State will create an airport zone to reduce both City and County taxes by 50% for the UAS/eVTOL industry
- Construction Start: Summer 2016
Credit: C Design
Smith Reynolds Airport Restoration (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: Airport Commission of Forsyth County
- Architect: C Design / Michael Graves Architecture & Design
- General Contractor: I.L. Long Construction
- Engineering: AVCON, Inc.
- Restore the airport to its appearance when it was the state's busiest airport
- Working to add the structure to the National Register of Historic Places
- City leaders are studying intermodal rail-to-air service
- Telecommunications will be upgraded
- An area for food trucks may replace the proposed Piedmont Airlines DC-3 exhibit
- Will demolish the 1963 departure lounge, a rental car wing, and an air cargo building
- The city is planning a major streetscape project between the airport and downtown's IQ District and between the airport and Whitaker Park
- A Savoia-Marchetti S.56c will hang from the ceiling of the waiting room and a DC-3 in Piedmont Airlines livery will be displayed outside
- The Air Traffic Low Altitude surveillance system (ATLAS) will be turned-on April 15, 2025 for using and testing autonomous aircraft and equipment
- The tower will close for two months in Fall 2025 for a $2 million renovation (FAA-funded)
- Terminal Restoration Cost: $21 million
- Total Cost: $86 million
- Construction Start: March 2022
- Terminal Building Completion: August 11, 2025
- Tower Construction Start: Fall 2025
- Full Completion: Early-2026
Winston-Salem Aerotropolis (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Plan: Aerotropolis Business Concepts
- Developer: Mark Owen
- Will connect airport to rail and Interstate, which connect to multiple water ports
- Aerotropolis will also connect to downtown's Innovation Quarter, Whitaker Park, and Wake Forest University
- Is expected to have a similar economic impact as downtown's Innovation Quarter
Credit: Greater Winston-Salem
AeroX Innovation Hub (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developers: Winston Starts and Venture Cafe
- Use: One of five planned emerging innovation hubs in the city, this hub is for aerospace startups
- Equity-free grants to relocate early-stage businesses
- Create flex-space for UAS and eVTOL research startups
- Part of a goal to establish 250 thriving startup businesses
- Creating a national model ecosystem for advanced air mobility
- Developing a low-altitude air traffic control system at Smith Reynolds Airport
- Will create a UAS technologies testbed in Winston-Salem for startups and established companies
- Will have a first-of-its-kind specialized FAA certification acceleration office for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft industries
- Forsyth County may make changes to the weather equipment and radar at Smith Reynolds Airport, as part of this project
- Smith Reynolds Airport is holding 64 acres for UAS development
- Partnering with Elizabeth City State University to offer four-year aviation science degree at Smith Reynolds Airport for 100 students
- May include development projects and leases signed at Winston-Salem locations away from the airport?
Credit: AeroX
ECSU Airport Campus (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: University System of North Carolina
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- ECSU is planning a new campus at Smith Reynolds Airport
- The new campus will offer a four-year aviation science degree and start with 100 students
- ECSU plans to work together with the neighboring Woodruff Aviation College
Credit: Walter Robbs / Lindsay Architecture
New Hangars (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: Airport Commission of Forsyth County
- Architect: Lindsay Architecture
- General Contractor: Samet / Gilgeours Construction
- Will build a new 20,000 square-foot hangar at the airport
- Also $4 million to replace a Quonset hangar with a new hangar
- Seeking $3.5 million in State budget for hangar renovation in 2025
- 20,000 Square-foot Hangar Cost: $15 million
- Construction Start: April 2024
- Completion: September 2025
North State Aviation Hangar (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: Forsyth County
- Cost: $14.9 million
- North State Aviation is the tenant and will create 325 new jobs at the airport when the hangar is completed
Sports Facilities:
Strikers Soccer Center
- Strikers Soccer Center is interested in opening a location in Winston-Salem at 6010 Gun Club Road
- They will reuse the 1960 building, if they can
"Noteworthy-Only" Metro Projects:
Credit: Unknown?
Vade Mecum Springs (Hanging Rock)
- Developer: State Park System
- Landscape Architect: OBS Landscape
- State Bond Money: $2.9 million
- Spring resort built in the 1800s (over 120 years old)
- The last Victorian spring mountain resort in metro Winston-Salem and among the last in the state
- The state could restore the hotel, cabins, and other buildings into a vacation resort
- Will include restaurant and space for weddings
Credit: Arden Group
Welden Village
- Developer: Arden Group
- General Contractor: Parr Construction
- Traditional neighborhood designed around short walks to everything
- Designed to reduce car usage
- Front porches and wide sidewalks to encourage interaction
- 12 miles of bike & walking trails
- Townhouses: 200 town homes
- Apartments: 500 apartment units
- Welden Park Apartments breaks ground in Summer 2017 with 306 apartment units
- Includes 30 acre commercial village
Credit: R IV Architecture
Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott
- Developer: Clarendon Properties
- Architect: R IV Architecture
- 1490 Glenn Center Drive
- Size: 58,460-square-feet
- Rooms: 99-key hotel
- Height: 56 feet tall
Exposition Center
- Developer: Forsyth County Commissioners
- Architect: Michael Graves Architecture
- General Contractor: Shelco
- A new 25,940-square-foot facility on 186.38 acres for conventions, trade shows, concerts, and events
- The building will have offices, demonstration kitchens, a warming kitchen, and event center seating
- Will be clad in stone, metal panels, and cement fiber board siding with a faux wood appearance
- The Forsyth County Agricultural Extension Service Office will move into this building
- This is a multi-phase project, starting it's first phase in Spring 2024
- Construction Start: October 2024
- Completion: Early-2026
Dan River Educational State Forest
- Developer: The Piedmont Land Conservancy
- Size: 848 acres
- Location: Along the Dan River in metro Winston-Salem
- Will become the Triad's first educational state forest
- Will serve the educational and recreational needs of metro Winston-Salem, while protecting the waters of the Dan River and its wildlife habitat
- A large number of rare aquatic species can be found in this stretch of the river
- The Mountains-to-Sea Trail will pass through the site and it will provide river access to the Dan River State Trail for canoers and kayakers
Credit: Sunhouse Development and Interior Image Group
The Balladeer Hotel
- Developer: Sunhouse Development
- Architect: Rowhouse Architects
- General Contractor: Christman Construction
- Adaptive-reuse of former Spencer's Mill into a 77-key upscale boutique Marriott Tribute Portfolio hotel
- This hotel is named for the region's history in bluegrass and Americana music
- Has a music studio for hotel guests to record their own music
- Winston-Salem Chef Freddy Lee will open a steakhouse called Fablewood in the hotel
- Will include a market center, courtyard with water feature, outdoor event lawn, pocket park with splash pad, taproom/coffeehouse, and spa
- Convention & Meeting Space: 44,000 square-feet of convention space and 26,500 square-feet of additional flexible space to be called Velora Willow
- This project will have a rooftop lounge
- The project will use historic tax credits.
- Construction Start: Spring 2024
- Completion: May 2026
Stokes County Courthouse Expansion
- Architect: Peterson-Gordon Architects
- Developer: Stokes County
- Will add a two-storey expansion to the front of the 1982 courthouse building
- Plans also call for a renovation of the existing 1982 building
- Cost: $11 million
- Size: Roughly 18,000-square-feet
Credit: Project Delta
Data Center (Project Delta)
- 1,844.9-acre data center, next to Belews Creek Steam Station
- Several 1-2 storey buildings, totaling 5-million-square-feet
- Will use hundreds of megawatts of power
- Will have its own temporary (natural gas) power generation, at the campus, while they wait on upgrades to Belews Creek Steam Station
- Will cost $10 billion dollars to build and is expected to generate $40+ million in county taxes
- Will create 250-500 high-paying jobs ($100,000+)
- Will use a closed-loop cooling system that recirculates the same water continuously
- Construction Start: Summer 2027
- Completion: 2030-2032
Credit: Forsyth County
New Data Center
- Developer: Drox Group
- Engineer: Thomas & Hutton
- Cost: $3 billion
- Tax Revenue: $60 million
- Size: 1,378,600-square-feet with 6-acre substation
- Will have four two-storey buildings that could reach up to 75 feet/22.8 metres in height
- Will have 200 air-cooled chillers, in addition to water cooled chillers, heat exchangers, and generators
- Could employ 250-500 people in jobs paying $100,000+
- Location: Rural Hall
New Gas-powered Power Plant
- Developer: Duke Energy
- Size: Two 1,600-acre sites in Davidson and Davie County, across the Yadkin River from each other
- According to an FERC filing, Duke Energy would like to build a large combined-cycle gas-powered turbine power plant
- Could generate enough electricity to power over 2 million homes
- The site has access to a gas pipeline, the Yadkin River, and there are transmission lines on the north end of the Davie County property
- If built, this power plant would pay $5.1 million in taxes and create 40 new jobs
Conrad Hill Mega Site
- Convert the Conrad Hill Gold Mine into an 800 acre mega site
- More land can be acquired to potentially double the site's size
- It has two power line easements, environmental studies, and easy access to water/sewer and gas
- Will become the only mega site in North Carolina's Urban Crescent, far from hurricanes and near multiple Interstates and urban labor pools
Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd.
- Cost: $233 million
- Use: Advanced manufacturing facility to make lithium-ion battery pouches for electric vehicles
- Will create nearly 400 new jobs
Credit: AU Architecture Unlimited
Southmont Community Center
- Architect: AU Architecture Unlimited
- Engineering: Providence Partners
- Cost: $65 million
- Use: Sports Complex, including a water park and a helipad
- Construction Start: December 2026
- Aquatic Center completion: Memorial Day 2027
John Deere Electric Powertrain North American Headquarters
- Developer: John Deere
- Size: 380,000-square-feet
- Cost: $70 million
- Will create at least 150 or more new jobs
Credit: Blum Construction
Granstone Conference Center
- Architect: Workplace Architecture + Design
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Use: Convention Center and Large-Scale Event Space
- Construction Start: November 2025
CenterPoint 85 Industrial Center
- Developer: Davidson Craven
- Land Area: 328-acres
- Use: Industrial Park
- Will have roughly 3 million square-feet of space
- A 272,000-square-foot building is under construction at the site, to open in Fall 2025
- The developer selected the name "CenterPoint" due to its location half-way between Atlanta and Washington D.C.,
Edgewood Lofts
- Developer: Warfford & Co., and Red Link Realty
- This is the renovation of the 26,000-square-foot former Edgewood Apparel Factory at 205 East 2nd Avenue into 33 apartments
- The project includes 3,000-square-feet of office space
- A second building, with 90 units, will be constructed as part of this project
- Completion: summer 2027
Gateway Apartments
- Developer: Tony Alford
- Architect: ERSKINE-SMITH Architecture
- General Contractor: Fourth Elm
- Cost: $10.5 million
- Units: 65 apartment units
- Amenities: Rooftop lounge, pickleball courts, retail space, self-storage
Shore Road Industrial Park
- Developer: Stoltz Building & Development Company
- General Contractor: ITAC
- Size: 147 acres (built in two phases)
Credit: Shook Kelly
Depot District
- 125 acres across 35 city blocks
- Multimodal transportation facility for bus & rail, amphitheatre, residential, retail, and restaurants
- Bull City Ciderworks relocated most of their operations to this project in March 2016
- An indoor hydroponic hemp-growing facility will open at Depot District in 2022
- Received $24.9 million grant from the USDOT in September 2020 for the multi-modal transportation facility to be completed in Fall 2028
- Tesh Realty will add a food hall, distillery, pocket park, retail/restaurant spaces, apartments above the storefronts, and 8 townhomes, with construction starting in late-2025
I-74 Corporate Park
- Developer: CIP
- Could Have Over 2,500 Jobs by 2021
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