Projects & Construction:
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Are you ready for a MASSIVE Bailey South update, including interior views! We also have construction photographs for several projects we've never had photograph updates for!
D.H. Griffin Demolition is sending this one out to the Security Life & Trust Building:
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Wow! That looks very dated! I was born a year before that song was on the charts, so it is old. Very 80s though!
Bailey South:
A nice view from inside:
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View from the third floor:
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Remember that big staircase? They are called stadium stairs! I love these creative and tech company spaces:
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Do I see a stage at the end of the "Stadium Stairs" feature?
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The west facade, as seen from the Low Line:
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A look at the 1926 retail/restaurant building's interior and restoration progress:
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Almost finished with these windows on the top three floors of the six-storey office addition:
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A smaller, but less obstructed view:
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We should be close to seeing glazing on this part of the building!
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Main & Third:
This project is nearly completed!
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Hyatt Place Hotel:
Work has restarted at this project. Not many workers around, but a plumbing contractor is there.
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MINIM:
Mayberry Ice Cream Restaurant and Brothers Pizza have leased 100% of the retail space. Mayberry signed a five year lease at the Patton / Realty Building, which is the historic office building the developer proposed incorporating into the larger new building. The Patton Realty Building was built in 1922. This (Mayberry) location will have more than just their usual ice cream and will serve lunch and dinner. Expect a few items on the menu that aren't at their other locations, since this is downtown and is Winston-Salem's Restaurant Row.
Courtyard by Marriott - Downtown:
The signage is installed and exterior lighting is now turned-on, but the signage is still dark.
Signage installed:
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Exterior lighting around the observation deck:
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Merschel Park:
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Performance Place Renovation: Built! 
This nearly 700 seat theatre renovation project was completed months ago. We never had any construction updates on this project and I didn't know it was under construction.
Davidson County Courthouse Expansion:
Finally, an update on this project! It's a few weeks old. I think they topped-out this building earlier this month?
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East Second Avenue Apartments:
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Interstate 74:
This is a project we rarely talk about here, because I can't find any photographs of it. Interstate 74 will connect Winston-Salem to Indianapolis and Cincinnati to the north and Myrtle Beach to the south. I think there are four mainline Interstates in Winston-Salem and two three-digit spurs?
This segment is almost completed:
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Cloverdale Redevelopment:
This project has changed from the earlier renderings posted here. To prevent the City and neighborhood from stopping their plans to replace historic Art Moderne affordable apartment units with new luxury apartments, they redesigned the project to match the existing zoning and this redesign won't require any changes to the streets. They also removed the office and retail part of the project to avoid rezoning. Without a rezoning or street changes, there is nothing the city can do to stop it. This project will increase the number of apartment units at the site by 20-25%, so the new apartment development will increase density. The developers won't demolish Ardmore Terrace, at least for now, and will keep those historic Art Moderne buildings. Residents of Cloverdale Terrace must move-out by March 5, with demolition set for this spring. The developer will return all deposits and provide $200 to assist with relocation. It should be interesting to see the redesign.
The Easley Apartments:
DPJ Residential has hired RCI Demolition to clear the site. Yes, they are ready to start work!
Twin City Motors Building Adaptive-reuse:
We now have one of the four floor plans and a few renderings of this proposed project. We also know the rooftop bar's igloos will glow at night, as an art feature on the roof. Fox 8 said the developer would like to start construction next month and WXII said the developer will start construction in March?
I see multiple bars and a stage for live music on the ground floor plan (opening to Main Street):
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Sports simulators:
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Games:
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Bowling:
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Casper's Ale House Windows, to be preserved:
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International food hall, with food from six different countries offered:
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Touring the building with the developers:
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New Park Space:
The Piedmont Land Conservancy has raised the money needed to buy the development rights and preserve 92 of the 212 acres of land from future development. They still need $1.4 million to build trails in the new park, which are expected to open in Fall 2020. This massive undeveloped property, only one mile (1.6 kilometres) from downtown, makes Winston-Salem unique in North Carolina. The Piedmont Land Conservancy has never worked on an urban project like this and believe it is the only opportunity of its kind in the state. No other city in the state has anything like this, according to Kevin Redding of the Piedmont Land Conservancy. The site was originally assembled to relocate Trinity College (known today as Duke University) to Winston-Salem, but that didn't happen. It later became Davis Military Academy and when the academy closed, it became a state Methodist orphanage. That is how this massive undeveloped site near downtown came to be.
Goose & The Monkey Brew House:
An update on this new craft brewery.
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West Academy Apartments:
Remediation work is completed and EME Industrial was hired to demolish the hotel at the site. Work on demolishing the structure started January 7. PCCI is the apartment developer.
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Egger North American Headquarters:
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Muse Winston-Salem:
The museum is preparing to install signage and museum office workers will move-in next month, but the museum won't open until next year. Construction on museum exhibits is set to start around April 2020. The museum will have several galleries used for changing exhibits, hands-on activities, spaces for performances and lectures, and it will feature augmented and virtual reality. Also, look for a recording studio to record oral history.
Radar Brewing Company: Built!
This craft brewery was posted as completed in the last update, but I wanted to show the sign installation:
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Salem Parkway:
Salem Parkway will connect downtown Winston-Salem with Chicagoland / Lake Michigan to the north and the Wilmington area, on the North Carolina coast, to the south. The NCDOT installed signage and announced the new highway's exit numbers.
Signage:
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Wyndham Garden Hotel - Airport:
The 9-storey building at 531 Akron Dr., at Smith Reynolds Airport (INT), will be renovated into a Wyndham Garden Hotel and Conference Center. This is a significant renovation, but few details are available at this time. Completion is set for October 2020.
Woodruff Aviation College:
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Efird Block Restoration:
The developer secured all permits needed. We should see progress, soon!
Link Apartments 4th Street:
When demolition workers attempted to pull-down a wall of steel on the former Security Life & Trust Building, things didn't go as planned and stone and (some said) glass on a neighboring skyscraper was damaged. It's a reminder of how dangerous demolition can be.
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It damaged the stone cladding and exposed the structural steel on the neighboring skyscraper:
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Notice the damaged area is now covered (I don't see any covered windows?):
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Stevens Center Renovation:
This backstage area will be expanded to the north in the proposed renovation:
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Sentinel Commons:
Progress at the new Gemcap Headquarters. They have already started moving-in.
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Link Apartments Innovation Quarter:
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A night view of the under construction storefronts:
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Alternative Transportation:
Salem Parkway Bike & Pedestrian Path:
It's clearly visible under the small arch:
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This is where the bicycle flyover ramp is shown in NCDOT renderings:
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Bike & Pedestrian Land Bridge:
Work is slowing on this project, as the NCDOT focuses on finishing Salem Parkway. It is likely this project won't be completed until after Salem Parkway opens.
Land Bridge and Oliver Cycling Park projects:
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Green Street Pedestrian Bridge:
An update on this suspension bridge project:
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Hanger One - Aerospace Innovation Hub:
As part of a goal of establishing 250 thriving startup businesses, Winston Starts and Venture Cafe will create a new aerospace innovation hub called Hanger One. This hub is part of their effort to narrow the city's focus areas for new startups and build on the city's existing assets and what makes Winston-Salem different from other North Carolina metro areas. Aerospace is one of five areas they are focusing on. As part of this, they will recruit startups in these five focus areas, including aerospace, to create the five emerging innovation hubs. A big part of this will be equity-free grants to relocate early-stage businesses, their founders, and a majority of their employees to Winston-Salem. At this time, I don't know if they will build a new hanger or renovate an existing hanger for Hanger One, but this is an exciting project to follow! And the tech boom continues!
Low Line:
Installing the handrails (Friday 1/10):
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Off-Subject:
Winston-Salem is Second in North Carolina in Research / Tech Concentration:
As complex economic activities, such as research, innovation, and advanced industry, concentrate disproportionally in just a few cities, Winston-Salem appears to be emerging as one of those leading cities, in a recent Nature study on human behavior. Notice many of the people behind the big developments above say downtown's IQ District was the reason for their big investments and the locations they selected.
Winston-Salem Leads North Carolina in Home Price Growth:
According to CoreLogic, Winston-Salem had the highest increase in home prices and led the state in home price growth. There is concern Winston-Salem's rapidly rising home prices may prevent some millennials from being able to afford a house, but it does create a downtown apartment boom that we've seen in this thread.
Home Price Growth:
Winston-Salem: 5.7%
Charlotte: 5.2%
Raleigh: 4.1%
Durham: 3.9%
Greensboro: 3.1%
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