Projects & Construction:
I want to thank the photographers and local businesses, sharing updates on projects, who make this thread possible. Without you, these updates won't happen.
Yes, this is the city ranked among the safest, with a job growth outlook among the best nationwide. It's also ranked as one of five surprising cities set to become boomtowns in 2022!
More new downtown apartments are proposed in this update! Over the past eight months, this city has seen over 1,000 new downtown apartments proposed and some of these projects have already started construction!
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Roar:
This is a 1920s Ford Assembly Plant & Showroom converted into a food hall, restaurants, rooftop bar, bank office, performance, and entertainment venue. Live music has already started at Roar. They appear to have live music every night, with no cover charge. Did you know: Each floor has a 90+ tap beer wall!
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Bowling (This was the Ford assembly floor - notice the gears on the ceiling and car factory photo above the far left bowling lanes):
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Great Gatsby Golf Club (You can play several different sports on these simulators):
Credit: roar.ws
Credit: roar.ws
You can see it's still under construction:
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Credit: roar.ws
A look at the bar:
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You can take selfies in this car:
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"Put some spring in your step as The Festival of the Wild Geese makes its United States debut"
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Second & Brookstown Apartments:
Are you ready for more apartments? Chaucer Creek Capital and DPJ Residential are proposing a $60 million apartment building on 4.2 acres at 920 Brookstown Avenue. This is across the street from the downtown ballpark. It will replace two large lots and three small buildings. The site is under contract. Over the past few months, over 1,000 apartments were proposed for downtown Winston-Salem. Including around 550 apartments over the past two or three months. We don't know the apartment building's name at this time and I need a name to enter it into our list, so Second & Brookstown Apartments is a temporary "working name" until we know the final name.
The new apartment building will be constructed in the gap between these two apartment buildings:
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Ronnies Downtown Grocery Store:
And work has started on this project! The architect has discovered the building has retained many of its original details, such as the original ceiling (hidden under a drop ceiling), some of the original walls, and historic flooring. The architect, Latent Designs, will retain these historic details and incorporate the building's connection to the Civil Rights Movement in the restoration and conversion to a downtown grocery store with farm-fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats. If we can find photographs, we will follow this project on this thread. If you're working on this project, please share photographs we can use here.
What is the building's connection to the Civil Rights Movement, you may ask? While sit-ins date back to the 1930s (in the Washington D.C., area) and maybe before then, this downtown Winston-Salem building was the site of the first sit-in victory in 1960. Yes, all of the lunch counters in Winston-Salem desegregated after the sit-in in this building. All of them! It was a big turning point in the nonviolent effort. This important historic building was almost lost to demolition in 2019, when an Atlanta-based developer proposed a 12-storey Moxy Hotel at this site. I think they proposed saving just the lunch counter area and demolishing the rest of the building? The same developer is now reusing all of the building for this downtown grocery store.
The original building was constructed in 1880 as a department store and was renovated to three storefronts and upstairs offices in 1915:
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The 1915 renovation from a department store to retail and office space removed the grand staircase, some of the windows (seen in the photograph above), and some or maybe all of the skylights?
Site of the first Sit-in victory in 1960 (Woolworth Lunch Counter):
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Lunch counter flooring:
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Lunch Counter Entrance from Fourth Street (Look at that ceiling):
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Second Floor (doesn't look as interesting):
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Bailey Power Plant Tenants:
Six Hundredº at Bailey South is still not open...
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Credit: SixHundredº
Credit: SixHundredº
Credit: SixHundredº
Tucker's Tap Yard:
Do you remember this project from October of last year? It's now officially announced. The downtown dog park and bar, proposed at 1010 North Liberty, also has a new and official name, opening date, and details. Tucker's Tap Yard will open in Summer 2022, with craft beer, wine, and cocktails. "Come enjoy a cold beer or cocktail while your dog runs off-leash in over 10,000 square feet of indoor-outdoor play areas."
Park at 74:
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STITCH Design Shop Headquarters:
Development and architecture firm STITCH Design Shop is said to be considering developing a new ground-up construction office building for their headquarters. If they move forward with the project, they will acquire a site near the downtown ballpark (Burke Street area) and design and build a new office building with ground floor retail for that site. There isn't much to report at this time.
New Downtown Elementary School:
The furniture company building they are planning to demolish for this project is interesting. They actually preserved their original building when they expanded and it can be see, even today, on the corner of the mid-century structure. Below is a 1950s photograph, showing the company's original building on the corner and the newer building constructed around it.
Building to be demolished:
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Kaleideum Science Museum:
Yes, work is happening at this site. No, nothing is rising above the dirt pit at this time. Still waiting for the first steel to rise! Collins Aerospace has donated money to support the museum’s engineering and innovation initiative and will take part in Winston-Salem's Engineering Festival on February 26, 2022. Collins Aerospace is among Winston-Salem's largest employers.
You can see the following construction sites - Kaleideum science museum, Merschel Park, and the Liberty Park Sensory Garden:
Credit: akikochiba_md
Artreaux Apartments:
This project is an apartment building, townhouses, co-working space, and a parking deck. The photographs are a few weeks old. We can now see that work has started on the townhouses.
Credit: Harold K Jordan & Co., Inc.
Credit: Harold K Jordan & Co., Inc.
Ninth Street will be restored (grid restoration) in the area where the construction trailer is:
Credit: Harold K Jordan & Co., Inc.
The blue tarps are covering the pad sites for the now under construction townhouses:
Credit: Harold K Jordan & Co., Inc.
Dave McNair Mastering:
Tom's Guitar Service will move into this building, when it's completed. I'm guessing this will be the retail space tenant?
Windows are finally here!
Credit: TGS
Of course they replaced the original steel casement windows with these modern house windows. Maybe they had to, to reduce noise in the building? It will be a recording and mastering studio and is expected to bring famous recording artists to downtown Winston-Salem. I did notice some of the windows are fake and blocked-in with CMUs. Those are likely the recording studios?
Lesser-Known Beer Company:
An update on this craft beer brewing company, with restaurant and offices. An apartment developer is in talks to acquire the land around this brewery project for... you guessed it... apartments & retail! So, the view from the windows of this brewery will be more new apartments. And those apartments aren't counted in the over 1,000 downtown apartments proposed over the past eight months, since this developer is still in talks to acquire the land and it's not in the area I define as downtown. It's a neighborhood bordering downtown, in my definition. I'm sure the brewery and restaurant love seeing hundreds of new apartments proposed around their building.
A look at the craft beer brewery:
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Credit: lesserknownbeerco
Credit: lesserknownbeerco
4th and Green Apartments & Retail:
The developer has an easement agreement with Duke Energy for this mixed-use project.
The proposed development site is the fenced-in pit in this photograph:
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Link Apartments 4th Street:
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Grant Park Expansion Phase II:
An impressive picnic shelter:
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WFBH ED/OR/ICU Tower:
Work on the helipad and elevator is completed. Parking Deck B is now permanently closed, with its demolition scheduled for the first week of March 2022. Completion is still scheduled for 2026.
Site demolition has already started and should accelerate by next month:
Credit: winston_360
Massing study of a $450 million 12-15 storey building with spire proposed for this site:
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The Legacy Apartments:
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The Easley Apartments:
Opening Summer 2022, according to the architect. Workers have installed the signage, along Second Street, but I don't have a photograph of it.
Interior Designer, Madi Cannon, at The Easley construction site:
Credit: ClineDesignNC
Credit: ClineDesignNC
Alternative Transportation:
Creative Corridors:
March 11 is the extended deadline to submit your art proposals for Salem Parkway's bridges and bike and walking path.
Off-Subject:
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Strong Job Growth Outlook and Among the Safest Cities:
Winston-Salem was ranked by Planner at Heart as the 16th safest city in the United States. They said Winston-Salem's rankings for job growth outlook and safety are among the best nationwide. Very impressive! Winston-Salem was the only city in the Carolinas in their rankings.
5 Surprising Cities Set To Become Boomtowns in 2022:
GO BankingRates rated Winston-Salem one of five cities set to become boomtowns in 2022. It has "a myriad of lifestyle activities catering to the under-40 community" and "has a talent pool of more than 2 million people, access to 30+ colleges and universities, and multiple airports.”
Charles Lindbergh in Winston-Salem:
On his 82 city tour of all 48 states, in 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew into Miller Airport (now Smith Reynolds Airport) and took a car to Hanes Park to speak. This was followed by a dinner at the Balinese Roof (food and dance venue 13 floors above downtown Winston-Salem) and he spent the night, before flying-out the next morning. Notice the billboard ad for Winston-Salem department store chain Gilmers at the start of the film and Reynolds Auditorium and the West End Neighborhood at the end of the film. It's from October 15, 1927, when Winston-Salem was the largest city in the Carolinas.
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The 5 Royales Statue:
There is growing talk of creating a statue of The 5 Royales in the downtown area. Not many details at this time. A funding source has been identified. The 5 Royales took the unique Winston-Salem sound to the pop charts and influenced rock-n-roll and r&b music for decades. They are in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame. They wrote and performed several songs that became hits in the 1950s and became hits again when others performed/covered them from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Random Photographs:
Credit: winston_360
Winston-Salem's Piedmont Wind Symphony performing at a downtown Winston-Salem structure designed by Bertram Goodhue's firm:
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Those bricks are from 1868:
Credit: bestofwinston
Yes, this is inside the Winston-Salem city limits and you can bike there from the downtown bike paths:
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