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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 Winston
- 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: 255,000* (89th largest in U.S.)
- Urbanized Area: 425,000* (3rd largest in North Carolina)
- Metro Population: 685,000* (88th 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 early-June 2023: (I'm sure I missed a few! Post any that are missed in this thread)
- 500 West 5th (Twin City Quarter)
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Mayfair Apartments at Liberty (Courthouse Square) On Hold!
- Kaleideum Science Museum (Financial District)
- Artreaux Apartments (Produce District)
- Metropolitan Mixed-use (East Side)
- Liberty Park (Financial District)
- 8 W 3 (Courthouse Square)
- Theatre Alliance (West Side)
- Oliver Cycling Park (Brookstown)
- Forsyth County Courthouse (Government District)
- East Tower (Ardmore / Hawthorne Hill)
- 4th and Green Apartments & Retail (West End Village)
- Chatham Building Apartments, Hotel, & Retail (Restaurant Row)
- Stevens Center Renovation (Theate District)
- Lofts @ Whitaker Park (Tiretown)
- Muse Winston-Salem (Brookstown)
- Novant Health Critical Care Center
- Salem Bottling Works (West Salem)
- George Black House & Brickyard Museum
- Whitaker Park Hotel & Mixed-use (Tiretown)
- First Baptist Church Restoration (Twin City Quarter)
- WoodSpring Suites Extended Stay Hotel (HMB Corridor)
- Reynolda House Museum of Art Restoration (Reynolda)
- Nationwide Marketing Headquarters (Arts District)
- 1782 George Stockburger House Restoration (West Salem)
- Whitaker Park Mixed-use Project (Reynolda)
- Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Renovation
- New Downtown Elementary School (Produce District)
- Mill 800 Apartments (West Side)
- Brouwerij DuBois
- 624 North Trade (Arts District)
- Salem Cohousing (West Salem)
- Lot 63 Taproom + Coffeehouse (Old Salem)
- North Carolina History Teachers Training Center (West Salem)
- Combs Wholesale Produce Facility (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- TW Garner Campus (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- 1001 (West Salem)
- The Flats at Peters Creek (Ardmore)
- Sentinel Commons (Twin City Quarter)
- City of Winston-Salem Fiber Optic Network
- Smith Reynolds Airport Projects (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Collins Aerospace Office Building (Oak Summit)
- Moon Light Drive-in Theatre (Produce District)
- Transit, Bike, & Pedestrian Improvements (City Wide)
- Salem Parkway Bike & Pedestrian Path (Brookstown)
- New Hangars (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Downtown Streetscape
- U.S. Bicycle Route 80
- LJVM Renovation (Alta Vista)
- La TriSoccer (Waughtown)
- Salem Lake Park Improvements
- McCreary Football Complex (Reynolda)
- Hanes Park Sports Facilities (West End)
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: Novant Health
Novant Health Critical Care Center
- Developer: Novant Health
- Architects: Gresham Smith & McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture
- General Contractor: Vannoy Construction
- Structural Engineer: Fitzpatrick Engineering
- MEP Engineer: BR+A/ Dewberry Engineers
- Civil Engineer: Stimmel Associates
- Design start in 2019
- Cost: $222 million
- Size: 193,480 square-feet
- Beds: 60 critical-care beds and 36 intermediate beds
- Will also have an enhanced surgical suite, and expanded pre and postoperative space
- Will have the Triad's only obstetrics emergency department (OBED)
- Space can quickly change to meet the hospital's needs
- Demolition Start: Fall 2021
- Construction Start: March 2022
- Completion: Fall 2024
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: November 2023
- Estimated Completion: Early 2026
Credit: dtws @ WSTB
325 North Broad Street (West End Village) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Developer: Center City West Associates LLC
- Architect: ArchSTUDIO7
- Mixed Use: Retail - Office - Condominiums
- Underground Parking
- Height: 9 Storeys
First Phase:
Second Phase:
Credit: WFBH
East Tower (Ardmore / Hawthorne Hill)
- Developer: WFBH & Atrium Health
- Architect: HKS Architects
- General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie
- Engineer: WSP
- Height: 13-15 Floors
- First Phase Size: 327,174 square-feet
- Second Phase Size: 420,000 square-feet
- Cost: $450+ million
- A spire could be added to increase the height?
- Received certificate-of-need (CON) from the state to add 48 new beds, including 4 burn ICU beds
- Emergency services will be consolidated into a new tower, featuring 90 private exam rooms, 40 new operating rooms, 28 new ICU rooms, pathology, radiology, and support services, like check-in, waiting areas, and pre/post-op
- Construction Start: 2022
- Completion: 2026
Credit: DWSP
MINIM (Restaurant Row)
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Developer: 4th Street Investors
- Height: 11-storeys
- Use: 15 Condominiums and Office Space
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
- Uses: Research, Education, Medical, and Retail
- Construction Start: Early-2023
- Completion: 2025
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Credit: Mayfair Street Partners
Mayfair Apartments at Liberty (Courthouse Square)
- Architect: RBA Group
- Developer: Mayfair Street Partners
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Uses: Apartments, Hotel Rooms, Conference Center, and Retail Space
- Apartment Units: 110
- Hotel Keys: 21 (Expansion of the neighboring Hotel Indigo)
- Retail: 8,500 square feet of retail space fronting Merschel Park and Third Street
- This development doesn't have any parking so the developer can add more retail space
- Will have rooftop amenity level
- Height: 9 Floors above Third Street
- Apartment entrance on Fourth Street and conference center entrance on Third Street
- Construction Start: February 2023
- Completion: November 2024
8 W 3 (Courthouse Square)
- Developer: PMC Property Group
- Architect: Garvin Design Group
- General Contractor: Triangle Construction Company
- Demolition & Abatement Contractor: D.H. Griffin Companies
- Former Wachovia Bank Headquarters at 8 West Third Street
- Adaptive-reuse: Apartments and Retail
- Apartments: 84 Apartment Units
- Will have a rooftop amenity area for residents
- Construction Start: January 2022
- Completion: First Quarter 2024
Credit: DPJ Residential
Brookhyrst Apartments (West End Village) EV CHARGING - STREETCAR ROUTE
- Developer: DPJ Residential
- Architect: Cline Design
- Investor: Chaucer Creek Capital
- 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: Early-2023
- Completion: Spring 2025
Credit: DPJ Residential
The Byrum Apartments (Industry Hill) BIKE COMMUTER LINE
- Developer: DPJ Residential
- Investor: Chaucer Creek Capital
- Units: 286 Apartment Units
- Amenities: Saltwater pool, clubhouse, dog park, fitness center, EV charging, and a pet spa
- Will replace an old warehouse
- Size: 449,009 square-feet
- Cost: $103.7 million
- Construction Start: October 2023
- Completion: Late-2025
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: April 2024
Credit: Steele Group Architects
Eleventh Street Townhouses & Apartments (East Side)
- Architect: Steele Group Architects
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Five phase apartment and townhome development that will replace a former public school building
- First Phase: 81 Residential Units
- Second Phase: 72 Residential Units
- Cost: $126 million
- Demolition Start: November 2021
- Financing Acquired: February 2022
- First Phase Construction Start: December 6, 2022
- First Phase Completion: Summer 2024
- Second Phase Start: Fall 2023
Credit: Tate Architecture
Tannery Mill Apartments
- Architect: Tate Architecture
- Landscape Architect: MLA Design Group
- Residential Units: 180
Credit: Axiom Architecture
Artreaux Apartments (Produce District) - ENTERTAINMENT NOISE DISTRICT
- Developer: DPJ Residential
- Axiom Architecture
- Investing Partner: Chaucer Creek Capital
- Opportunity Zone Project (CCC Trade Street OZ Fund)
- Apartment Units: 241 Apartments (234 apartments in a five-storey building and 7 townhouse apartments in a two-storey structure)
- Includes A two-storey co-working space with a mezzanine demonstration kitchen and coffee bar
- Also includes murals, sculpture, game room, conference center, and a terrace with a fire pit overlooking the pool courtyard connected to the mezzanine
- Townhouses will be used to hide a large parking deck
- Will have a linear pet park and pet spa
- Materials: Will use brick and metal cladding and have polished concrete floors
- Developer will restore this part of the street grid by extending Ninth Street to Oak Street
- Developer will also build new sidewalks around the building's block
- Size: 271,459 square-feet of apartments and 10,115 square-feet of townhouse apartments
- Land Cost: $2.5 million
- Building Cost: $47.5 million
- Height: 5 Floors
- Construction Start: July 2021
- Completion: June 2023
Chatham Building Apartments, Hotel, & Retail (Restaurant Row)
- Developer: GBX Group
- Co-developer: Mast General Store
- General Contractor: LMI Builders
- Conversion of an Art Deco office building from 1932 into 22 one-bedroom apartments and retail
- Will also contain a 5-key Kasa Hotel and 10,000 square-feet of co-working space
- The apartments will average 500-650 square-feet each
- All of the retail tenants, including the art-house movie theatre and small grocery store, will stay
- Construction Start: Fall 2022
- Completion: December 2023
Realty Building Apartments (Restaurant Row)
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Uses: Adaptive-reuse of a 1922 office building (Patten / Realty Building) into Condominiums and Retail
- Existing retail tenant will stay
Credit: WFBH
WFBH Eye Institute (IQ District)
- Developer: Wake Forest University / Medical Center
- General Contractor: Whiting-Turner Construction
- Architect: Perkins & Will
- Size: 185,000 square-feet
- Two floors of underground parking and 7-8 floors in height
- State-of-the-art clinical and teaching facility for the university
- Will bring around 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
- 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 have a cafeteria open to patients and their families
- Designed to be easy to navigate for the visually impaired
- Will include up to 50,000 square-feet of space for "other" tenants (To be used for future expansion)
- Height: 6 Floors on East Facade
- Will have two floors of underground parking
- Cost: $170 million
- Grading Start: July 2023
- Final Renderings Expected: June 27, 2022
- Vertical Construction: January 10, 2024
- Construction Start: May 2023
- Completion: August 6, 2025
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
Winston Underground
- Developer: RDG Acquisitions / The Loading Dock
- Architect: Alliance Architecture
- One of the first new projects announced due to the expansion of the Rails-to-Trails Bicycle Commuter Highway project and its proposed rail transit line
- Adaptive-reuse of a 1920 building for creative entrepreneurs and a launch space for startups
- Will have a 20,000 square-foot indoor retail market, co-working space, and a makerspace with small rentable (flexible 3 month terms) industrial startup spaces for creatives
- Will be temperature controlled, with workspace for kitting & fulfilling orders, all needed equipment and people who can help you learn how to use it, and daily pickups for UPS, USPS, and FedEx
- Construction Start: 2023
Nissen Wagon Works Mixed-use:
- A plan to convert 96,300 square-feet of this historic wagon and horse-drawn carriage factory into a mixed-use project centered on co-warehousing
- Will also have a food truck commissary, a cafe, makerspace, co-working space, and outdoor performance space
- Their plans will preserve the original 1834 star smokestack
Credit: brr Architecture
WoodSpring Suites Extended Stay Hotel (HMB Corridor)
- Developer: Concord Hospitality
- General Contractor: Path Construction
- Architect: brr Architecture
- Height: Five storey building
- Rooms: 124-keys
- Construction Start: Spring 2023
- Completion: Summer 2024
Credit: OM Design Solutions
Homewood Suites Hotel (HMB Corridor)
- Developer: BPR Properties
- Architect: OM Design Solutions
- Size: 108-key / room Homewood Suites by Hilton hotel
- Height: 69 Feet / 21 Metres Tall
- Floors: 5 Floors
- Will have a nice outdoor area
- Is located on an unusual triangular-shaped lot
- Construction Start: Spring 2022
- Completion: Early-2024
Credit: Steele Group Architects
The Flats at Peters Creek (Ardmore)
- Architect: Steele Group Architects
- Uses: Apartments, Retail, and Office Space
- Retail Space: Nearly 5,000 square feet
- Amenities include outdoor space, fitness center, co-working space
- Apartment Units: 62 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartments
- Site Demolition Start: November 2019
- Construction Start: Spring 2023
- Completion: Summer 2024
University of Strasbourg Downtown Campus (IQ District)
- Developer: University of Strasbourg
- The University of Strasbourg is planning an educational and research collaboration that may result in a new Innovation Quarter building
- Focus on robotics and simulators
- Has potential to boost education and scientific discovery in downtown Winston-Salem and the world
1782 George Stockburger House Restoration (West Salem)
- Restore 241 year old house
- Construction Start: January 2023
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Renovation (Reynolda)
- Architects: Anna Impson and EMBER Audio + Design
- Renovate a 1929 Norman Revival building to include a café and retail space
- Workers will preserve the hand-carved crown molding, marbled fireplaces, and vintage French wallpaper
- State may change the art museum's name to "N.C. Museum of Art - Winston-Salem" and increase its budget
- The renovation will add new furnishings from mid-century icons to works by emerging contemporary designers and lighting
- “We hope to play against the stuffy connotations sometimes associated with historic places and cultivate a vibe unlike anything else in the area; layered and design-forward, cool but comfortable.”
- Construction Start: Summer 2023
Credit: Walter Robbs Architects
Theatre District Hotel & Condos (Theatre District) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Architect: Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce
- Height: 18 storeys
- Hotel Rooms: 160
- Condominiums: 40
- Artist Rental Lofts: 40
- Parking Deck: 450 Spaces
- Retail: 50,000 Square Feet
- Cost: $50 million
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
- Leases: Chad's Chai will lease the cafe space
- 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
- 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
- Construction Start: April 2020
- Some businesses will open in 2020
- Full Completion: January 2024
Credit: Meridian Realty
Nationwide Marketing Headquarters (Arts District)
- Developer: GBX Group / Capitol Places
- Architect: Evergreen Hill Studio
- General Contractor: LMI Builders
- Restore 601, 609, & 615 North Liberty Street to their original 1920s appearance
- Uses: Office & Retail (includes rooftop bar/amenity space)
- Nationwide Marketing leased all of the office space in this development for their headquarters
- The historic Efird Building was built in 1925 as a grocery store with offices on the upper floors
- 609 North Liberty was built in 1927 for the Morris-Early Furniture Store
- Completion: First Quarter 2023
Credit: Charlie Fulk
624 North Trade (Arts District)
- Developer: GBX Group
- General Contractor: LMI Builders
- Restore two buildings into a retail development
- Will convert a former alley/laneway into an elevated outdoor space and a second outdoor dining space at street-level
- GBX Group has a preservation easement for 626 and 632 North Trade Street
- Construction Start: May 2021
Commercial Finance Building
- Developer: Mayfair Street Partners
- Located at 623 North Liberty Street
- Will become two floors of office space
- Outdoor Space: Beer garden, dog park, and outdoor theatre for live music and other performances
- The Bunker will be a new 40+ seat esports center with state-of-the-art gaming technology and an immersive gaming environment
- The Bunker will host regular tournaments and leagues as a premier destination for esports gaming and entertainment
- Cevushi will open in this development as a fusion concept that blends the flavors of Japanese sushi and Latin American ceviche
- A neighboring building will have a variation of the U.K.'s Puttshack
- Beer Garden Completion: mid-March
- Construction Completion: July 2023
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: CJMW
- Cost: $14 million
- Adaptive reuse of the former Atlantic Greyhound Bus Garage, built in 1940, 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
- Construction Start: May 2023
- Completion: Fall 2023
3401 Indiana Avenue (Reynolda)
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Adaptive reuse of the former Dudley Theatrical Equipment Company Building
Credit: LTP
321 South Liberty (Brookstown)
- Developer: Arden Group
- Uses: Retail/Office
Credit: Forsyth County
Forsyth County Courthouse (Government District) CYCLE TRACKS - * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL (LRT) *
- Location: 175 North Chestnut Street
- Developer: Forsyth County
- Design Architect: CBRE Heery
- Project Architect: CJMW
- General Contractor: Samet / Balfour Beatty
- Size: 239,656 square feet
- The county may add another floor before construction begins, increasing the size to 306,000 square feet
- A skybridge will connect the new courthouse to the Forsyth County Government Center
- Cost: $116 million (limited obligation bonds)
- Courtrooms: Can hold up to 24 courtrooms
- Multi-escalator space between the two court towers provides dramatic views of the city
- The building will feature an amazing waiting space for jurors to make their service a much better experience
- Will have an iconic piece of artwork at the entrance and they would like to have artwork throughout the courthouse
- A multi-block linear park will create a dramatic entrance to the courthouse and create a view corridor from the city's tallest skyscraper to the courthouse
- The new courthouse will front a cycling path and cycling/pedestrian bridge leading to a future Light Rail Transit line
- Floors: 8
- Height: 140 feet / 42.7 metres
- Construction Start: February 2021
- Completion: June 2023
- Grand Opening: Fall 2023
Credit: Bradley & Ball
500 West 5th (Twin City Quarter) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Developer: Don Flow
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Architect: Bradley & Ball Architects
- Interior Design: Mona Associates
- Restaurant Developer: Parry Restaurant Group
- Uses: Headquarters for Flow and Renfro Corporation, along with a ground floor coffee shop and a 3,880 square-foot restaurant called Downtown Grille
- The second floor will have a fitness center and a community gathering space
- Will have office space for tech companies (Flow is in leasing talks with 4-5 companies for this space)
- The first seven floors will be used for retail and startup spaces, with all retail on the ground floor
- Salem College will move their Center for Women in Business and Entrepreneurship Program to this building
- The North Carolina Center for Cybersecurity will move their headquarters to this building
- The lobby will be expanded at the main entrance on the north facade
- Select Bancorp will open an office in this building to offer loans for startups and small businesses
- Creative CoWorks will open in this building as a place where professional & student artists can gather, collaborate, and workshop ideas
- New HVAC will be installed
- Winston Starts incubator space
- Flywheel Co-working space
- New Ventures Accelerator
- A venture capital company's headquarters
- Free co-working space
- Floors: 21
Credit: Windsor Commercial
4th and Green Apartments & Retail (West End Village)
- Developer: Brown Investment Properties
- General Contractor: Windsor Contracting
- Architect: SGA | NarmourWright Design
- Uses: Apartments and Retail, with Parking Under the Building and a Second Floor Courtyard
- Size: 224,230 Square-Feet
- Apartments: 100 Apartment Units
- Amenities: Fitness Center, Club Room, and Yoga Room
- Height: 6 Floors
- Construction Start: Fall 2022
- Completion: Summer 2024
9th Cube
- Developer: Drew Gerstmyer
- Apartment Units: 10
- Contemporary/Modern architecture units for downtown workers
- Located on Ninth Street, between Wiseman Brewing and MIXXER's service entrance
- Height: 35 feet / 10.7 metres
- Size: 11,520 square-feet
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
Union Cross Development (Alliance Science & Technology Park)
- Developer: Front Street Capital
- Size: 850,000 Square Feet
- Advanced Manufacturing Site
- Requirement from the City to lease to tenant(s) generating the most jobs
1834 Nissen Wagon Works (Waughtown)
- Plans to convert the site to a "green" warehouse site
- Solar panels will supply electricity for the warehouse lights
- May include a future Forsyth County Public Library branch
Ronnies Downtown Grocery Store (Courthouse Square)
- Architect: Latent Designs / Mona Art
- Developer: Mayfair Street Partners
- Use: Downtown Grocery Store
- Developer will open a fresh fruit, vegetable, and meat grocery store with a breakfast and lunch restaurant included
- Will add upscale offerings, like high end coffee, breads, and additional hams not previously offered
- The grocery store will be four times larger in this new location
- Out-of-state customers will be able to order online and have their rare items delivered
- Construction Start: Summer 2023
- Completion: Early 2024
Woolworth Museum & Events Center (Courthouse Square)
- Architect: Latent Designs / Mona Art
- Developer: Mayfair Street Partners
- The lunch counter was the site of the nation's first sit-in victory - A major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement
- The original lunch counter will be restored as a museum
- The remaining space will become an events center that can host around 500 people
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 expand the medical center's kitchen
- They will build a new central energy plant
- Construction Start: August 2020
- Completion: 2027
Credit: West & Stem Architects
TW Garner Campus (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: Front Street Capital
- Architect: West & Stem Architects
- General Contractor: Landmark Builders
- Multi-building campus near the airport for TW Garner
- TW Garner will keep their headquarters in downtown
- Will be constructed in phases
- First phase is 165,000 square-feet
- Completed multi-building project will have over 600,000 total square-feet
- Construction Start: August 2021
- First Phase Completion: September 2022
Carolina University Downtown Dormitory (West Salem) CYCLE TRACKS
- Developer: Carolina University
- General Contractor: Meadowlark Developers
- Height: Possibly a signature building with Seven Floors
- University dormitory, office space and possible hotel proposed across from Truist Stadium in downtown (200 South Broad Street)
- The university will renovate the existing hotel building into a downtown dormitory for their students
- If the university builds new at the site, they may include other uses in the project
- Construction Start: First Quarter 2025
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: Tise Kiester Architects
Mill 800 Apartments (West Side) * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL (LRT) *
- Developer: Belmont Sayre
- General Contractor: Landmark Builders
- Architect: Tise Kiester Architects
- Phase II of a 350,000 Square Foot Project
- Phase II includes 46 two-storey residential units
- Phase II has parking under the building
- Retail Space: 4,500 Square Feet
- Phase II Cost: $10.5 million
Credit: walter PARKS Architects
Lofts @ Whitaker Park (Tiretown)
- Developer: Frye Properties
- Architect: walter PARKS Architects
- General Contractor: Weaver Cooke Construction
- Units: 163 Apartments (1, 2, and 3 bedroom units)
- Apartments will have 14-20 foot high ceilings and some units will have two levels
- Size: 241,047 square-feet
- Cost: $32 million
- Amenities: Tennis Courts, Bowling Alley, and Rooftop Pool & Rooftop Amenity Center
- Rooftop Amenity Center: 5,000 square-feet with a gym and views of the skyline and Blue Ridge Mountains
- Adaptive-reuse of buildings built between 1922-1937
- Construction Start: January 6, 2021
- First Building Completion: March 2023
- Second Building Completion: June 2023
Credit: C.A. Harrison Companies
Whitaker Park Hotel & Mixed-use (Tiretown)
- Developer: Frye Properties
- A $25 million, 125 key Marriott flag hotel
- 150 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: Spring 2023
- Full Completion: 2025
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) *
- Developer: Whitaker Park Development Authority (WPDA)
- Developer: Brennan Investment Group
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Architect: CJMW
- 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
- Workplaces, Retail, and Residential are planned
- This project could include a new hotel
- A data center could be in talks for space here?
- Street changes planned
- Could Attract 15,000 New Jobs
- Project could cost $500 million
- Phase I is completed
Credit: City of Winston-Salem
LJVM Entertainment District (LJVM Sports & Entertainment Complex)
- Replace parking lots and outdated buildings with a mixed-use entertainment & retail district
- To include apartments, retail, bars, restaurants, office space, and hotels
- Planned for streets around the existing football stadium, coliseum, annex, and baseball stadium
- 67 acres or more in size
Credit: JD Clark
Credit: FBC
First Baptist Church Restoration (Twin City Quarter) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Restoration Architect: Joe Bircher
- Demolish 1954 and 1961 expansions
- Restore 1925 Building
- Construct a 4,200 square foot multi-function space and an outdoor chapel where the 1954 and 1961 expansions are currently located
- Construction Start: June 4, 2018
- First Phase Completion: January 2020
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Coptic Orthodox Church of Winston Salem
- Few details at this time
Muse Winston-Salem (Brookstown)
- Proposed city history museum for downtown
- Muse Winston-Salem will be the
Museum of
Understanding,
Storytelling, &
Engagement
- The museum will lease and renovate 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
- Fundraiser for the upfit will be held in 2020
- Museum Office Move-in February 2020
Fishel Steel Building (Arts District)
- Developer: The Pope Companies
- Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- Adaptive reuse of an old industrial building into modern office space
Credit: Reciprocity
Goler-Depot Super Energy Efficient Solar Condos (Goler Heights)
- Architect: Reciprocity
- Condos will produce more energy than they use!
- Will use new construction materials and techniques used in Europe.
Carolina Air & Auto Museum (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Museum for Aircraft - Motorcycles - Automobiles
- Future Home Base for The Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation
- Berlin Airlift Display Includes: Boeing C-97G and a C-54
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Moon Light Drive-in Theatre (Produce District)
- Developer: JKS Incorporated
- Will include space for pedestrians and cyclists to sit on a grass hill and watch a movie
- Uses LED screen
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: Theatre Alliance
Theatre Alliance (West Side)
- Developer: Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance
- Architect: Thomas H. Hughes Architecture
- General Contractor: Omega Construction
- The first floor (first phase) will have a mainstage theatre, box office, scene shop, dressing rooms, restrooms, and lobby space
- The second floor (second phase) will have a black box theatre, rehearsal space, costume shop, storage for props, meeting space, and restrooms
- The first floor theatre will be nearly twice the size of their current theatre
- This project is the adaptive reuse of a 70+ year-old former Blue Bird Cab building
- Design Completion: Fall 2020
- First Phase Completion: August 20, 2021
Credit: Robert A.M. Stern Architects LLP
Stevens Center Renovation (Theate District) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Architect: Steinberg Hart / Little Diversified
- 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
- 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: $83.3 million
- Construction Start: November 15, 2023
- Completion: Between Summer 2025 and Spring 2026
Credit: Gensler
Kaleideum Science Museum (Financial District) CYCLE TRACKS
- Design Architect: Gensler
- Project Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- Exhibit Design: Roto Studio
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- SciWorks and the Childrens Museum have merged and will build a single downtown museum
- To be located at Third Street, on the Strollway
- Size: 72,000 Square Feet
- 13,000 square foot Two-storey rooftop playground
- Flexible Exhibition Space: 40,000 Square Feet
- Height: 4-Storeys
- Cost: $44 million
- $11 million fundraiser planned, for January 2018 to October 2020, to buy exhibits
- Rooftop Adventure will have two floors of rooftop space for people of all ages, with exhibits, a zip-line, cocoon swings, one-of-a-kind structures, and a skyline view
- Will have an In-Motion Exhibit, an engineering exhibit, a Digital Dome on the 2nd Level, and Storytelling area & Wonders of Water on the 3rd level
- Planetarium, Gift Shop, Cafe, Classrooms, Makerspace for Kids, Over 80 Indoor Animal Exhibits, and Transformative Lobby
- Neighboring Liberty Park, to be built with this museum, could have a water feature, playground area, and sensory garden
- Will have parking under the building for employees and connect to a neighboring parking deck, to be renovated
- Will have space for traveling exhibits and group learning space, on the second floor
- Building will be constructed to high-level LEED standards
- Design Start: Spring 2017
- Site Demolition: June-September 2020
- Construction Start: August 19, 2021
- Completion: Fall-2023
- Grand Opening: Early-2024
Reynolds Auditorium Renovation (West Highlands)
- Renovate a 100 year old building
- Renovations to the stage floor, updated house lights and aisle lighting, repair spalling on the balcony, and replace the carpet
- Construction Start: Summer 2023
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
New Downtown Elementary School (Produce District)
- Developer: Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- Size: 500 Students
- Land Cost: $2.2 million
- Construction Cost: $34.6 million
- Is a brownfields project and will reuse the Thomasville Furniture Factory site
- Demolition Start: First Quarter 2023
- Construction Start: Fall 2023
- Completion: August 2025
Credit: TCA Architects
Seasons at Water's Edge (Winston Lake)
- Architect: TCA Architects
- Developer: GRE
- Mixed-use: Retail & Residential
- Residential Units: 420
- Retail: 102,000 square feet
- Designed around the city's four distinct seasons
- Will have views of and will be next to a golf course
- A bicycle friendly development, with bike paths connecting everything and two connections to city bike routes
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
Credit: Flagship Properties
Silas Pointe Office Building
- Developer: Flagship Properties
- Features include large elevators and large floor plates
- Construction Start: Fall 2021
- Completion: 2023
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
Credit: BGP
310 West 7th Apartments (Arts District)
- Developer: Easter Creek Partners
- Units: 26
- Height: 3-4 storeys
- Parking will be under the building
Ambulatory Surgical Center (Ardmore) STREETCAR ROUTE - CYCLE TRACKS
- Developer: Wake Forest Baptist Health
- Size: 75,000+ square feet
- Operating Rooms: 8
- Skybridge to connect it to surrounding buildings
- May contain an endoscopy center
- Could be a much larger project - Still waiting for more details
- Cost: $40+ million
- Will be built to add more floors to the roof in the future
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
Reynolda House Museum of Art Restoration (Reynolda)
- Roof replacement and general restoration work
- Construction Start: July 2021
Building 90 Lab Conversion (IQ District) STREETCAR ROUTE - BIKE COMMUTER LANE
- Developer: Wexford Science and Technology
- General Contractor: Whiting-Turner
- Developer will convert Building 90 from office space to lab space
- Size: 242,742 square-feet
- National demand for lab space has become greater than the supply of lab space
- Construction Start: 2023
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
- Construction Start: November 2023
- Completion: September 2025
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 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
Credit: GSV
North Carolina History Teachers Training Center (West Salem) CYCLE TRACKS
- Developer: State of North Carolina
- General Contractor: McNair Construction Company
- A summer training center for history teachers in North Carolina
- It will have visible collections and an education facility
- View and learn about Old Salem's stored objects
- Will have a significant space for educational programs
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
- Construction Start: Fall 2023
- Completion: Fall 2024
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
Downtown Amphitheatre (Arts District) ENTERTAINMENT NOISE DISTRICT
- Developer: Perkins / East Coast Capital
- Location: Tenth Street at Patterson Avenue
- 21 acre site with historic 300,000 square foot former Thomasville Furniture Factory on the north end and a large space for a massive downtown amphitheatre to the south
- The amphitheatre site's terrain is a natural half-bowl, perfect for this use
- Can host large downtown concerts under the stars
- Zoning to Noise / Entertainment District Zoning was approved In December 2018
Winston Square Park Amphitheatre Renovation (Theatre District) STREETCAR ROUTE
- Enlargement - Sculpture - Lighting
Performing Arts Park (Theatre District)
- Developer: Arts Council of Winston-Salem
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Water Feature
Credit: Gensler
Liberty Park (Financial District)
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem and Kaleideum Science Museum
- Architect: Surface 678
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Will replace a concrete plaza and the one-storey Brutalist office building below it, with a new downtown park
- The park will become a grand entrance to the Liberty Plaza office tower and Kaleideum Science Museum
- Will have playground equipment and a sensory garden
- Demolition Start: June 2020
- Construction Start: February 2021
- Completion: November 2023
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, a gathering space, and a pavilion
- Cost for Current Phase: Estimated at $10 million
- The City would like to line the path with art
- Construction Start: 2025
Salem Lake Park Improvements
- Architect: Norwood Architecture & Design
- General Contractor: Barr Construction
- This project will add a two-storey open-air pavilion with offices and boat storage on the lower level, a new launch area for boats, a new floating dock with 12 boat slips, and a soft launch area for canoes and kayaks
- Also includes shoreline bulkhead repair, new paths and sidewalks, lighting, a new safety surface for the playground, park furniture, new landscaping, and new picnic shelters
- Construction Start: September 2021
- Completion: Second Quarter 2023 (Parts of the project could open early)
Credit: Perkins & Will
Fogle Commons (IQ District)
- Architect: Stimmel Associates
- Developer: Wexford Science & Technology
- General Contractor: Whiting-Turner
- Space for live music, arts, performances, academic, and corporate events
- Will have programed entertainment and events
- Construction Start: Fall 2023
- Completion: Fall 2024
1913 Lord & Burnham Conservatory Restoration (Reynolda)
- Developer: Reynolda House
- Will restore the Lord & Burnham conservatory, built in 1913, to its original condition
- Construction Start: 2023
Cloverleaf Park (IQ District)
- Design: Stimmel Associates
- Will include a bike and walking path
- Construction Start: 2023
Credit: Gateway Nature Preserve
Gateway Nature Preserve Observation Platform (Washington Park)
- Developer: The Gateway Nature Preserve
- Will be a $33,000 330 square-foot creek observation platform
- Will have signs telling the history of Salem Creek, the various animial species in and around the creek, and the signs will describe the creek's geology
Granville Park Renovation (Granville Park)
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- General Contractor: Ramey Inc.
- Construction Start: January 2023
- Workers will repair historic arched stone bridges and repair paths in the park
- Work also includes new lighting, tree removal, reconstruct the tennis courts, improve handicapped accessibility, and work on storm drainage issues
Source: WSTB
Bailey Park Phase III (IQ District) STREETCAR ROUTE - BIKE COMMUTER LANE
- Design: Stimmel Associates
- Privately Developed and Paid For By: BioMed Realty Trust and WFIQ (no city money involved)
- Historic electrical pylons, saved from site during demolition, to be reused as art
- Includes seating areas, walking trail, interactive water feature, and large concert/event area
- Will install a new Glice ice rink in November 2023, to operate each year between November and February
Credit: ArchSTUDIO7
Liberty Plaza Renovation (Financial District)
- Developer: Mayfair Street Partners
- 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
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
LGBTQ Monuments
- Developer: New York City-based New Museum
- Museum will work with local artists to find locations and create monuments for Winston-Salem's LGBTQ community
- Contact them if you would like to be a part of this effort
Brouwerij DuBois
- Build a new taproom and craft beer brewery as part of an adaptive-reuse project
- Planned for Country Club Road
- Construction Start: June 2023
- Completion: October 2023
Lot 63 Taproom + Coffeehouse (Old Salem)
- Developer: Aaron Wall and Eric Peck
- Adaptive-reuse of an 1867 building for a craft beer brewery
- Will also have Moravian baked goods and classic Moravian coffee
- Look for new and a unique beers inspired by the rich history of Winston-Salem's historic Old Salem and Moravian/German brewing traditions
- Construction Start: April 2023
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 with Keith Durst / FOC to bring national restaurant/retailers to this project
- Uses: Retail/Restaurants/Entertainment
Salem Bottling Works (West Salem)
- Developer: Jared Rogers / QAH Group
- Will renovate the 1920s Coca-Cola Building into a food hall with office space and apartments on the top floor
- A craft beer brewery is in talks to locate here
- Outdoor courtyard will have spaces for live music and entertainment
- May have a carousel
- Will have outdoor and rooftop seating with skyline views
- Front door will be restored as the main entrance
- Bobby Boy Bakeshop has leased here and will have their commercial kitchen in this building
- Will be landmarked and restored to its original 1928 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
- Completion: 2025
Alternative Transportation Options: (Bus - Pedestrian - Bicycle - Rail):
Source: HDR & City of Winston-Salem
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- 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
Rails-to-Trails Bicycle Commuter Highway Expansion
Winston-Salem's High Line (IQ District)
- Landscape Architect: Stimmel Associates
- Engineering: HDR
- Will expand an existing elevated bike and pedestrian park 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
- 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 Completion: Summer 2024
- Construciton Start: Fall 2024
- Completion: Fall 2025
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
Salem Parkway Bike & Pedestrian Path
- General Contractor: Flatiron Constructors & Blythe
- Labeled As "Cycle Tracks" On Projects Listed On This Thread
- 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 375 foot / 114.3 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: December 2023
- Construction Restart (Eastern-half): Spring 2023
- The Western-half will start as the eastern-half finishes construction
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
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
- Old Salem Phase Start: August 2020
- MLK Phase Design Completion: Early-2023
- First Phase Construction Start: October 2020
- First Phase Completion: January 2023
- Second Phase Construction Start: April 2023
- Full Completion: Fall 2023
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
- 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
Credit: NC DOT
U.S. Bicycle Route 80
- Follows US-421 and will connect to existing and under construction Cycle Tracks in Downtown Area
- Will be completed from the university medical center to the county line by 2025
- Construction Start: late-Summer 2020
Interesting Fact: Winston-Salem is the only major city in North Carolina without an outer-loop/beltway, due to decades of environmentalist and anti-sprawl lawsuits.
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
New WSTA Office Building
- Developer: Winston-Salem Transit Authority (WSTA)
- Architect: Morris Berg Architects
- Replace an outdated and too-small 1977 office building with a new office building
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: Mark Saunders
Smith Reynolds Airport Restoration (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: Airport Commission of Forsyth County
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- 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
- May create an area for food trucks
- Will demolish the 1963 departure lounge 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
- Terminal Restoration Cost: $21 million
- Total Cost: $86 million
- Construction Start: March 2022
- Completion: Fall 2024
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
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 75 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
New Hangars (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: Airport Commission of Forsyth County
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- General Contractor: Shelco
- Will build two new 20,000 square-foot hangars at the airport
- Also $4 million to replace a Quonset hangar with a new hangar
- The first hanger is for MRO Holdings and will bring 325 new jobs to the airport
- First Hanger Cost: $15 million
- Second Hangar Cost: $15 million
- First Hangar Construction Start: March 2022
- First Hangar Completion: Summer 2023
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
Quonset Hut Hanger Restoration (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Developer: Airport Commission of Forsyth County
- Will restore an original historic Quonset hut hangar with new doors, energy efficient lighting, and new roofing
- Construction Start: December 2021
- Completion: June 2023
Sports Facilities:
Credit: bloggersodear
Credit: WFU
LJVM Renovation * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL *
- Architect: CBRE Heery
- New $17.5 million veterans memorial plaza
- Corner Video boards
- New LED lighting
- New 360 ribbon boards
- More club-level seating
Credit: Kuo Diedrich Chi Architects
Tanglewood Championship Course Clubhouse (Tanglewood)
- Architect: Stitch Design Shop and Kuo Diedrich Chi Architects
- General Contractor: Samet Corp.
- Developer: Forsyth County
- Will replace an outdated building with major structural issues that was designed for the 1974 PGA Championship
- Workers have finished renovating the Championship Course
- The new clubhouse will be designed so they can host a PGA pro event in the future
- Construction Start: Fall 2022
Credit: Deacon Club
McCreary Football Complex (Reynolda)
- Developer: Wake Forest University
- A nearly $40 million addition to their football complex
- Size: 60,000 square-feet
- Will add a new football locker room, taping & training, a nutrition station, hydro therapy, training rooms, a recovery area, an entertainment/lounge area, and team meeting space for 200 people
- Also includes an equipment center and loading dock
- Construction Start: December 2021
- Completion: Summer 2023
Hanes Park Sports Facilities (West End)
- Developer: Home Team Advantage
- Architect: West & Stem Architects
- Demolish an existing Mid-century Modern gym and build a new gym and football stadium
- Construction Start: July 2020
Truist Stadium Upgrades (West End Village)
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction and W.C. Construction
- The Chicago White Sox want upgrades to Truist Stadium
- Major League Baseball stadium report completion: December 2021
- The City will have three years to complete the upgrades
- Requested Upgrades: Private locker rooms for female coaches, staff, and umpires; laundry, equipment, and commissary upgrades to the home team clubhouse
- More Upgrades: Larger visiting team clubhouse with upgrades to the commissary, shower & toilet facilities, training room, coaches' locker room, and a separate office for the visiting manager
- Also Requesting: Changes to the bullpen mounds; changes to the wall height in the right field corner; improved field drainage; a lighting review; and adding a second enclosed hitting/pitching tunnel
- 712 Vodka will create a new-construction bar, using recycled cargo containers, called The 712 Vodka Speak Easy
- The team is requesting (and the team will pay for) office space and outfield restrooms
- Will use $5 million in limited obligation bonds
- Construction Start: Fall 2022
"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
Greenworks AgTech Innovation Center
- Developer: Southern Cross Management
- Architect: Workplace Architecture + Design
- Three-storey 64,000 square-foot agricultural lab & research facility
- 20,000 square-foot Flywheel Co-working Center
- 24,000 square-feet of research labs with space for startups
- Includes a conference center, demonstration rooms, education space, a greenhouse, a vertical growroom, commercial kitchen, and advanced processing and extraction equipment
Exposition Center
- Developer: Forsyth County Commissioners
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- General Contractor: Shelco
- A new facility for conventions, trade shows, concerts, and events
- Construction Start: Summer 2022
- Completion: Fall 2023
Credit: West & Stem Architects
Körner’s Folly Visitor Center
- Architect: West & Stem Architects
- General Contractor: Wilson-Covington
- Size: 5,600 square-feet
- Wolfe Visitors Center is named for John and Bobbie Wolfe who helped save the 1880 structure
- Collection Storage: Over 1,300 square-feet of collection storage
- The visitor center will have a community room, rotating exhibition space for historical artifacts, meeting space, research library, offices, gift shop, activity lawn porch, and media room
- Construction Start: February 2023
- Completion: January 2024
Credit: Little Diversified
City Centre Building
- Architect: Little Diversified
- General Contractor: Balfour Beatty
- Will become Lexington city offices
- A reclad and reuse of the former Lexcom Headquarters Building
- Construction Start: Summer 2022
- Completion: Summer 2024
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
Macy Grove Industrial Park
- Developer: NorthPoint Development
- Land: 155 acres near Salem Parkway
- Size: 1.4 million square-feet
- Construction Start: Fall 2021
Credit: Sunhouse Development
Spencer's Mill Hotel
- Developer: Sunhouse Development
- General Contractor: J.G. Coram Co.
- Adaptive-reuse into a 77-key upscale boutique Marriott Tribute Portfolio hotel
- Will include a market center, courtyard with water feature, outdoor event lawn, full-service restaurant, bar, 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
- This project will have a rooftop lounge
- The project will use historic tax credits.
- Construction Start: Fall 2022
- Completion: Fall 2024
Siemens Mobility Eastern U.S. Passenger Rail Facility
- Developer: Siemens Mobility
- Cost: $350 million
- Jobs: Over 1,000
- Will be "carbon neutral"
- Will make 264 new passenger rail cars a year in 2024
- Will become their largest North American facility
- Will build new passenger rail coaches for intercity and regional rail services as well as overhauling locomotives and passenger coaches
- Will become their base for manufacturing and maintenance east of the Mississippi River
- Includes a first of its kind overhauling operation for locomotives and passenger coaches
- Will make rail vehicles that can run on hydrogen or battery power
- Clients include Amtrak, Canada's VIA Rail, and over 40 mass-transit systems in the U.S., and Canada
- Construction Start: March 2023
- Official Groundbreaking: Summer 2023
- First Phase Completion: 2024
Nucor Steel Mill
- Developer: Nucor
- Multi-building steel mill development
- N.C.R.R. will build a new rail spur and loading docks for the project that will use the Winston-Salem Southbound Railroad
- Cost: $350 million
- Construction Start: Fall 2022
- Completion: Spring 2024
Credit: State of North Carolina
EGGER North American Headquarters
- General Contractor: Gray Construction
- Cost: $700 million
- Three Phases
- 770 New Jobs
- Will include a total of 4.5 million square feet of space
- Includes office space, a showroom, and training center
- First Phase Construction Start: March 2018
- First Phase Completion: December 2019
- Second Phase Construction Start: Fall 2018
- Second Phase Completion: 2020
- Third Phase Construction Start: Fall 2022
- Third Phase Completion: First Quarter 2023
Credit: McCulloch England Associates
Kernersville Medical Center Expansion
- Developer: Novant Health
- Architect: McCulloch England Associates
- Will add a fourth floor to the existing building, with a catheterization lab, maternity center, and 13 new beds
- Cost: $50 million
- Construction Start: February 2022
- Completion: April 2024
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 2026
I-74 Corporate Park
- Developer: CIP
- Could Have Over 2,500 Jobs by 2021
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