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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: 254,000* (89th largest in U.S.)
- Urbanized Area: 425,000* (3rd largest in North Carolina)
- Metro Population: 702,500* (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 late-August 2024: (I'm sure I missed a few! Post any that are missed in this thread)
- Metropolitan Mixed-use (East Side)
- Theatre Alliance (West Side)
- Oliver Cycling Park (Brookstown)
- Liberty Plaza Renovation (Financial District)
- East Tower (Ardmore / Hawthorne Hill)
- 4th and Green Apartments & Retail (West End Village)
- Chatham Building Apartments, Hotel, & Retail (Restaurant Row)
- Fogle Commons / IQ Infrastructure (IQ District)
- Stevens Center Renovation (Theate District)
- Lofts @ Whitaker Park (Tiretown)
- Muse Winston-Salem (Brookstown)
- Novant Health Critical Care Center
- Salem Bottling Works (West Salem)
- Cloverdale Surgery Center (Ardmore)
- Whitaker Park Hotel & Mixed-use (Tiretown)
- Event Center & Food Truck Park (Produce District)
- First Baptist Church Restoration (Twin City Quarter)
- WoodSpring Suites Extended Stay Hotel (HMB Corridor)
- 1782 George Stockburger House Restoration (West Salem)
- 1913 Lord & Burnham Conservatory Restoration (Reynolda)
- 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)
- Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Renovation
- New Brunson Downtown Elementary School (Produce District)
- Tanglewood Championship Course Clubhouse (Tanglewood)
- Hoots Live Music Venue (Northwest Industrial District)
- Truist Stadium Upgrades (West End Village)
- Allegacy Stadium Renovations (Alta Vista)
- Mission Mobile Medical Headquarters
- Carolina University New Campus
- Pace of the Triad - West
- Salem Cohousing (West Salem)
- Wachovia Residences (West Salem)
- Highland Avenue Park (East Side)
- Combs Wholesale Produce Facility (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Ziehl-Abegg North American Headquarters (Union Cross)
- TW Garner Campus (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- 1001 (West Salem)
- Learning Commons
- The Flats at Peters Creek (Ardmore)
- Sentinel Commons (Twin City Quarter)
- Smith Reynolds Airport Projects (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Moon Light Drive-in Theatre (Produce District)
- Transit, Bike, & Pedestrian Improvements (City Wide)
- Salem Parkway Bike & Pedestrian Path (Brookstown)
- Smith Reynolds Airport Restoration (Smith Reynolds Airport)
- Downtown Streetscape
- U.S. Bicycle Route 80
- LJVM Renovation (Alta Vista)
- Salem Lake Park Improvements
- 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.
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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)
![](https://i.imgur.com/Dt7faJ0.jpg)
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)
![](https://i.imgur.com/ATdTp1f.jpg)
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
![](http://i.imgur.com/Yf8exus.jpg)
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/wvZbSAX.jpg)
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
![](http://i.imgur.com/J5yrOFS.jpg)
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:
![](https://i.imgur.com/3dyi3hn.jpg)
Second Phase:
![](https://i.imgur.com/5k6aN5Y.jpg)
Credit: WFBH
East Tower (Ardmore / Hawthorne Hill)
- Developer: WFBH & Atrium Health
- Architect: HKS Architects
- General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie
- Engineer: WSP
- First Phase Height: 10 Floors
- Second Phase 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
- First Phase Topped-out: March 5, 2024
- Emergency Department Opening: June 2025
- First Phase Completion: 2026
![](https://i.imgur.com/2n8BPDf.jpg)
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
Loewy Building Apartments & Retail (Restaurant Row)
- Developer: High Tide Capital
- Use: Apartments & Retail
- Residential Units: 50 apartments (42 market rate / 8 affordable)
- Located in Opportunity Zone and qualifies for historic tax credits
- Last Tenant Move-out: Could be as-late-as September 29, 2024
- Closing: July 31, 2024
- Construction Start: Early-2025
![](https://i.imgur.com/Hw7wdlt.jpg)
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: Summer 2024
- Completion: Summer 2026
![](https://i.imgur.com/kmUaH1c.jpg)
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: January 2025
- First Residents Move-in: December 2025
- Completion: Spring 2026
![](https://i.imgur.com/rNZJGLr.jpg)
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
- Third Phase Completion: Summer 2024
![](https://i.imgur.com/a6pkR3R.jpg)
Credit: Steele Group Architects
Brown School Lofts at Legacy Heights (East Side)
- Formerly "Eleventh Street Townhouses & Apartments"
- Architect: Steele Group Architects
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum 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
![](https://i.imgur.com/AcrW1f1.jpg)
Credit: Tate Architecture
Tannery Mill Apartments
- Architect: Tate Architecture
- Landscape Architect: MLA Design Group
- Residential Units: 180
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Credit: City of Winston-Salem
Heritage Park
- Developer: Grand Silo Development
- Architect: Planworx
- Apartments reaching up to four storeys in height
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: Early-2024
![](https://i.imgur.com/ax8nUEm.jpeg)
Credit: PACE of the Triad
Pace of the Triad - West
- Developer: Pace of the Triad
- Architect: LS3P
- General Contractor: Landmark Builders
- Construction Start: July 2024
- Completion: Summer 2025
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
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: Summer 2024
![](https://i.imgur.com/7HoBxT0.jpg)
Credit: WFBH
WFBH Eye Institute (IQ District)
- Developer: Wake Forest University / Medical Center
- General Contractor: Whiting-Turner Construction
- Architect: Perkins & Will
- Size: Will lease two-thirds of the 242,000 square-foot space
- 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
![](https://i.imgur.com/cyWMWOp.jpg)
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/wIFNBQJ.jpg)
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/bXggTna.jpg)
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/w5ZSAhq.jpg)
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
- Total Size: 84,191 square-feet
- Amenities include outdoor space, fitness center, co-working space
- Apartment Units: 62 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartments
- Secured affordable housing tax credits: February 2024
- Site Demolition Start: November 2019
- Construction Start: April 2024
- Completion: Spring 2025
- First Residents Move-in: July 2025
![](https://i.imgur.com/qg5Zplt.jpg)
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
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
1802 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
![](http://i.imgur.com/I7d5fLS.jpg)
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/dgmWaak.jpg)
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/oyUa4NE.jpg)
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
- 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: Stemz will start construction on their space in Spring 2024
One of three buildings to be renovated into a mixed-use development:
![](https://i.imgur.com/N6lqToQ.jpg)
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/nhHmXxK.jpg)
Credit: SBER
1007 South Marshall (West Salem) CYCLE TRACKS
- Developers: Cross Street Partners
- Architect: Foundry Architects
- 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: June 2024
- Completion: late-Fall 2024
3401 Indiana Avenue (Reynolda)
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Adaptive reuse of the former Dudley Theatrical Equipment Company Building
![](https://i.imgur.com/Dqr0Lm8.jpg)
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 5,313-square-feet of 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, Valet Trash, Pet Spa, Yoga Room, and an Outdoor Lounge with a Fire Pit
- Apartments have quartz countertops, smart thermostats, keyless entry, Energy Star lighting, and windows & doors with thermal and sound insulation
- 24-hour package concierge system and controlled building access
- A business center with coffee bar and private offices
- 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
![](https://i.imgur.com/BOOrTa5.jpg)
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)
- One of the two office buildings will become self-storage units
- The other office building will remain office space
- Undeveloped office lots will become residential and retail, with 121 townhouse units
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/Y18hvGV.jpg)
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
Woolworth Museum & Event 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
- Will become event center for Hotel Indigo (across the street)
- The original lunch counter will be restored as a museum
- The entire interior will be restored to its original 1960s appearance
- The remaining space will become an events center that can host around 500 people
![](https://i.imgur.com/jMrwN6m.jpg)
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
![](https://i.imgur.com/9hDBKn1.jpg)
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
STADLER America (North American Headquarters) (Union Cross)
- Developer: Front Street Capital
- Location: 3089 Centre Park Court
- Will have roughly 11,000-square-feet of office space and roughly 11,500-square-feet of industrial space
- The building will have another roughly 5,500-square-feet on a second floor
Carolina University New Campus
- Grow enrollment from 1,068 to 7,000 students
- Size: 117-acre campus
- Gain Hispanic-Serving Institutions designation
- Library and classroom Completion: December 2024
- Residence Hall Completion: August 2025
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
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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
- Has seven penthouses, ranging in size from 1,257-to-1,403-square-feet
- Lease Rates: $1,192 for the smallest one bedroom unit to $4,507 for the largest penthouse unit
- Project has seven penthouse units
- Adaptive-reuse of buildings built between 1922-1937
- Construction Start: January 6, 2021
- Pre-leasing Starts: March 15, 2024
- First Tenants Move-in: June 1, 2024
- First Building Completion: June 2024
- Second Building Completion: August or September 2024
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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
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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
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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
- Workplaces, 10 Retail Spaces, a possible hotel, and Around 300-350 Residential Units are planned
- 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
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Credit: City of Winston-Salem
Deacon Boulevard Redevelopment Site (LJVM Sports & Entertainment Complex) * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL *
- Developer: Carter / Front Street Capital partnership
- Architect: Nelson Worldwide
- Cost: $500 million project
- Replace parking lots and outdated buildings with a mixed-use entertainment & retail district
- Mixed-use, including residential, 40,000-square-feet of retail/restaurant space, hospitality, 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
- 67 acres or more in size (Possibly 178 acres?)
- Received $35 million from the State Budget in 2023
- Construction Start: December 2024
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.
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Credit: JD Clark
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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
- Construction Start: Spring 2023
- Completion: Summer 2024
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
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Credit: Preservation Forsyth
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 will include an events center
- Construction Start: April 2024
- Completion: 2025
Fishel Steel Building (Arts District)
- Developer: The Pope Companies
- Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- Adaptive reuse of an old industrial building into modern office space
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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
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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
- An outdoor stage, with a control booth for the director, will be constructed
- 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
- Plans include an outdoor stage
- Design Completion: Fall 2020
- First Phase Completion: August 20, 2021
- Second Phase Start: Fall 2023
- Second Phase Completion: Summer 2024
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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
- 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
Reynolds Auditorium Renovation (West Highlands)
- Renovation Architect: Ersoy Brake Appleyard Architects
- 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
Forsyth Tech Transportation Center Expansion
- Developer: Forsyth Tech
- Expansion Size: Nearly 30,000 square-feet
- Will also renovating existing space
- Cost: $7-7.5 million
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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
- 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: $52.4 million
- Is a brownfields project and will reuse the Thomasville Furniture Factory site
- Demolition Start: First Quarter 2023
- Construction Start: February 14, 2024
- Completion: December 2025
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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
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Credit: AtriumHealthWakeForestBaptist
Cloverdale Surgery Center (Ardmore) STREETCAR ROUTE - CYCLE TRACKS
- Developer: Wake Forest Baptist Health
- General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie / Frank L. Blum Partnership
- a.k.a., Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Outpatient Surgery – Cloverdale
- Size: 78,000+ square-feet
- Operating Rooms: 8
- Skybridge to connect it to surrounding buildings
- May contain an endoscopy center
- Will have otolaryngology, general surgery, orthopaedics, urology, and plastic surgery
- A robotic surgery training center is included in this project
- Could be a much larger project - Still waiting for more details
- Cost: $74+ million
- Will be built to add more floors to the roof in the future
- Final Approval: Jan, 28, 2024
- Construction Start: early-2024
- Completion: May 31, 2025
- Opening: July 1, 2025
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
High Point University Winston-Salem Campus
- Developer: High Point University School of Health
- HPU signed a seven-and-a-half-year office lease at 125 Sunnynoll Court
- They have the option to renew the lease twice for three years each, which could bring the lease to thirteen-and-a-half-years
- This would be a new university campus in Winston-Salem for those wanting to take medical classes and enter the health field at the many hospitals in Winston-Salem
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
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
- Federal funding could be available
- Construction Start: 2030
- Completion: 2035
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
Nissen Wagon Works Warehousing:
- Developer: M Group Companies and Land South
- Use: Warehousing
- Construction Start: Summer 2023
- Completion: Spring 2024
Winston Junction Expansion (Produce District)
- Architect: Evergreen Hill Studio
- Size: 13,750-square-feet
- Location: 951 North Trade Street
- Will replace a demolished a cold storage building
- This is a spec project, with no tenants at this time
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
- Feasibility study to find a location and study the economic impact
- Size: 5,000+ seat amphitheatre with additional grass seating
- Can host large downtown concerts under the stars
- Zoning to Noise / Entertainment District Zoning was approved In December 2018
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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
Event Center & Food Truck Park (Produce District)
- Developer: KB Holdings Development
- Location 1243 North Patterson Avenue
- Adaptive-reuse to an 8,000-square-foot event center and a commissary kitchen for food trucks
- 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
- First Phase (Food Trucks & Games/Entertainment) Completion: July 2024
- Event Center Completion: December 2024
- Commissary Kitchen Completion: February 2025.
Hoots Live Music Venue (Northwest Industrial District)
- Developer: Hoots Beer Co.
- 200-person capacity live music venue and a bar that will serve cocktails, wine, and beer from other breweries
- Completion: September 2024.
Shiny Happy Brewing
- Starting the process of creating a craft brewery
- Already have several beers planned for the new brewery
Performing Arts Park (Theatre District)
- Developer: Arts Council of Winston-Salem
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Water Feature
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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
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Credit: STITCH Design Shop
Belews Lake Park
- Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- General Contractor: BAR Construction
- Developer: Forsyth County
- Multi-phase park development, covering 216 acres
- Will include trails, a shelter, a playground, and natural areas
- Will also include a 150 person capacity picnic facility with restrooms, a new walking path with five picnic pads (table and grill), and a floating fishing dock
- Construction Start: February 2023
- Phase I Completion: September 2024
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Credit: Forsyth County
Highland Avenue Park (East Side)
- Architect: STITCH Design Shop
- Landscape Architect: MLA Design Group
- Developer: Forsyth County
- Will have basketball and pickleball courts, along with ping pong and game tables
- Includes a playground and restrooms, grilling station, picnic tables, and two large lawns
- This project also includes a sensory climbing dome and movable picnic tables, which allow a lighted bandshell to accommodate events
- Will preserve many of the site's trees
- Construction Start: September 2024
- Completion: Summer 2024
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)
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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
1913 Lord & Burnham Conservatory Restoration (Reynolda)
- Developer: Reynolda House
- Cost: $4 million
- Will restore the Lord & Burnham conservatory, built in 1913, to its original condition
- Work includes glass replacement, structural repairs, new HVAC, and ADA upgrades
- Florist Workshop will be restored and converted into a Welcome Center
- Construction Start: Summer 2023
- Completion: June 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
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
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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 2024, to operate each year between November and February
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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
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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
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: May 30, 2025
- Construction Start: September 15, 2026
- Creative Corridors will add lighting, artwork, decorative features, brick, and more to the project
- Bridges will be upgraded with bicycle lanes and an enhanced pedestrian experience
- Seeking a $586,960 planning grant from Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods for the three downtown bridges (local match is required)
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 31, 2025 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, and a ramen restaurant
- 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
- Completion: July 2025
Alternative Transportation Options: (Bus - Pedestrian - Bicycle - Rail):
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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
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Credit: Stimmel Associates
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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
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 Start: Spring 2024
- Design Completion: Summer 2024
- Construction Start: September 30, 2024
- Completion: Fall 2025
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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: Smith-Rowe Construction
- 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 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
- 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
- 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.
Midtown-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
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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
- Main and Liberty streets will have two-way Class IV Protected Cycle Tracks installed as part of this project
- MLK Phase Design Completion: Early-2023
- MLK Phase right-of-way acquisition: September 30, 2024
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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
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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: 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
- Terminal Restoration Cost: $21 million
- Total Cost: $86 million
- Construction Start: March 2022
- Completion: February 2025
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
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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?
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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
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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
- 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:
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Credit: bloggersodear
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Credit: WFU
LJVM Renovation (Alta Vista) * 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
- Renovated womens basketball locker room (LS3P is the architect for the locker rooms)
Allegacy Stadium Renovations (Alta Vista) * FUTURE LIGHT RAIL *
- Workers will renovate the West Concessions, 1834 Market, and Deacon Market at Allegacy Stadium
- Construction Start: Spring 2024
- Completion: Late-Summer 2024
Wake Forest University Crew Building
- Developer: Wake Forest University
- General Contractor: Frank L. Blum Construction
- Size: 1,820-square-foot boat storage structure on Salem Lake
- Cost: $237,633 project.
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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
- The North Carolina General Assembly approved $4 million for construction in the State Budget
- Approval of $15 million from Forsyth County in December 2023 allows the project to move forward
- Basement will be used for golf cart storage, it will have a pro shop, kitchen/bar, and meeting rooms
- Construction Start: May 14, 2024
- Completion: late-Summer 2025
- Ready for tournaments: Fall 2025
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Credit: RjReynoldsHomeFieldAdvantage
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
- Football stadium named M. Douglas Crater Field and Stadium
- Construction Start: July 2020
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Credit: Pendulum
Truist Stadium Upgrades (West End Village)
- Developer: City of Winston-Salem
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- Cost: $5.1 million
- 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
- Upgrades may include additional seating to expand capacity
- 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
- West & Stem Architects are designing Lost Worlds Beer Garden for Lost Worlds Brewing Company at the stadium
- 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: October 2023
- Completion: July 2024
"Noteworthy-Only" Metro Projects:
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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
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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
Exposition Center
- Developer: Forsyth County Commissioners
- Architect: Walter Robbs
- 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: May or June 2024
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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
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Credit: Sunhouse Development
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
- 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
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Credit: HDR
Siemens Mobility Eastern U.S. Passenger Rail Facility
- Developer: Siemens Mobility
- Architect: HDR
- General Contractor: Graycor
- 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
- It will use the latest technology, including 3D printing
- Construction Start: March 2023
- Official Groundbreaking: August 2023
- First Phase Completion: Fall 2024
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
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
Nucor Steel Mill
- Developer: Nucor
- General Contractor: Delta Fab
- Concrete Contractor: Wayne Brothers Construction
- Multi-building steel mill development
- Nucor announced, in June 2024, they would add a $20 million rebar fabrication facility, bringing the total investment to $370 million
- N.C.R.R. will build a new rail spur and loading docks for the project that will use the Winston-Salem Southbound Railroad
- This will be a "green steel" plant using modern efficient electric furnaces and sustainable electricity
- Nucor has set a goal to be carbon free by 2050
- Cost: Nearly $500 million
- Construction Start: August 2023
- Completion: April 2025
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
Shore Road Industrial Park
- Developer: Stoltz Building & Development Company
- General Contractor: ITAC
- Size: 147 acres (built in two phases)
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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
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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