WINSTON-SALEM | Development Guide

[WSBornNBred]

Agreed with your thoughts on the Inmar building, Matthew. I think we'd all rather see a new build to jump start Phase II, but there are positives to the Inmar building. The fact that it is much closer to the Bailey Power Plant and the rest of downtown is obviously the primary positive. I would assume it would also be a quicker project, and certificates of occupancy would be granted much sooner than a new build. So, more people downtown sooner - this is a good thing.

If the Inmar building does happen, we need to revisit all of the angst from the old board when "Wake Forest" came off Innovation Quarter brand. If you would have told us then that a few years later, WFUHS would have bought the medical school building and opened a world class eye care center in the Inmar building, we would have been thrilled (and, of course, without the benefit of foresight, would be asking "what happened to Inmar??").