Projects & Construction:
Foothills Brewery Expansion:
Foothills brewing has almost completed a multi-million dollar expansion to its production brewery and will soon add Georgia distribution, in early 2016. Jamie Bartholomaus said "There's been so much growth, we are really just grabbing hold of it in our current markets. We're adding a significant amount of equipment this year to make sure we're staying ahead."
Kimpton's The Cardinal Hotel & Residences:
I found a photograph of a completed hotel room in the building. We now also know the name of the hotel's restaurant. The restaurant will be called Empire. According to Kimpton "on the first floor of the iconic building will be a chef-driven destination restaurant, with vibrant bar and outside patio dining space." For those who don't know, this building is officially recognized by the Empire State Building as "The Father of the Empire State Building." “This is a dream project. A building with this kind of history in this kind of market,” Tom Riley, Kimpton's Vice President of Development, said. Kimpton is a “proven player” when it comes to large, mixed-use projects that include hotel rooms, residences and restaurants. He said the hotel will feature a “killer restaurant.” “Every restaurant concept we do is unique for the market we’re in. We’re one of the largest multi-concept restaurant operators in the U.S.,.” Kimpton strives to find restaurant concepts that are not yet offered in the project’s market.
If you decide to live in this building's residences, you will have a 10th floor amenity area for residents only. You also have access to all of the hotel amenities.
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Pillows and Fabric: The hotel rooms will have a North Carolina theme, as the Kimpton Hotel for the state.
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Winston-Salem was settled by imagrants from the Czech Republic and Austria. North Carolina was settled by imagrants from Scotland and Ireland.
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Screen for Kimpton's Empire Restaurant & Bar:
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I love this company's work! Are they driving these down in a truck from Pennsylvania?
These stools have one of the screen pieces near them... are they part of the Empire Restaurant & Bar?
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Company Relocates to Downtown Winston-Salem:
An e-commerce art and design company has moved from West Palm Beach, Florida to downtown Winston-Salem. The owner said it was difficult to recruit talent in its Florida location, but that isn't an issue in downtown Winston-Salem. In fact, the company has doubled its work force in their new downtown Winston-Salem location. Many of those employees are students or recent graduates from local colleges, such as Forsyth Technical College and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. The company moved to newly renovated space at 206 West Fourth Street. No incentives were involved. We could see at least two more e-commerce companies relocate to downtown Winston-Salem from other states.
Wake Forest School of Medicine:
An update on the university's downtown medical school.
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Building under-construction on the right: (a view of the building we don't see often)
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Other Cities Touring Downtown Winston-Salem:
The city of Aiken has toured Winston-Salem, looking for downtown ideas. Andrew Siders said “There are lots of ideas about financing, there’s lots of ideas about innovation and land and building use that we can definitely take back." Will Partin, BioMed Realty’s associate director, said revitalization of the historic properties spurred the development of green space and parks, pulling in a crowd to not only visit the historic district, but to also live there. Several Aiken community members asked how developers were able to maintain a balance between keeping the historic nature of the buildings, yet turning them into usable and modern spaces. Dr. Eric Tomlinson said it’s all about “thinking like a community and continuing to act like a community.” The trip participants from Aiken are taking part in panel discussions and tours to study what other cities did to create a strong workforce, to integrate the college community into their downtown, and to find how to continually grow their city, while preserving its historic character.
If you're looking for ideas on adaptive-reuse, Winston-Salem is the city to visit.
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Theatre District Hotel & Condos:
Work is expected to move forward on several Theatre District development projects in 2016. One of those projects is an 18-storey 160 room hotel with 40 condos, 40 artist lofts, and 50,000 square feet of retail. The skyscraper would face a large park space and a new construction performing arts center. I now have enough renderings, studies, and information to make a 3D Model and diagram for this proposed building. It appears to be an all glass structure.
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Tall building on the left:
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Downtown Hampton Inn & Suites:
Everything is in place to begin demolition soon at the site and prepare for construction. The Northwestern Bank Building, built in 1964, and a collection of Streamline Moderne retail and office spaces, from 1949, will be demolished for the new hotel. These spaces were in use, when the hotel developer purchased them. The regional opera company, a beverage company, and an insurance company leased the former bank building and a radio station and real estate office leased the 1949 structure. Will an 8-storey hotel contribute more to Third Street than these other tenants? I guess we will see.
1964 Northwestern Bank Building to be demolished for Hampton Inn & Suites:
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Two-Storey Publix With Parking Deck:
The steel frame is rising, but I still want to see photographs of the parking deck under the store. This will be the only grocery store in North Carolina with parking under the store (it will have a shopping cart escalator and elevators), which is the only reason we are following it in this thread.
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SciWorks Downtown:
This was talked about on WSTB, but I don't think we've talked about it here? SciWorks is working on a plan to move to a new construction building at Third Street and The Strollway (bike & walking path). The new building would have 80,000 square feet of space and would need $25 million from Forsyth County (bond vote?). SciWorks could also partner with another museum on the project. County Commissioners could see the funding request in Spring 2016.
SciWorks is no longer involved in the Bailey Power Plant project.
National Center for Design Innovation: Built!
This project was actually completed a month or more ago, but it finally had its official grand opening in downtown's IQ District. I said, if I find more photographs, I'll post them. Here they are! So, what is the CDI? It's an interdisciplinary center for art and design, technology and science. The building includes The CUBE, design studios and maker labs, an electronics lab, a digital manufacturing shop, and a multi-purpose activity floor called the LaunchPAD. Pamela Jennings, the center's executive director, said "This world-class facility is an engine for incubating North Carolina's discovery economy." Among the center's multiple design studio spaces, you'll find a large-scale experimental space called The CUBE that is "an audio, visual, and computational 'building as instrument'" that supports research and creative productions in areas such as immersive performance, data visualization, 3D cinema, augmented reality, and motion capture. The center is equipped with 10-gigabit Internet capabilities. The building is seeking LEED Silver designation. This is a lab, workshop, and meeting space, a home to entrepreneurs, inventors and designers. The building also has a catering kitchen, data center, and staff and administrative offices. The design space was created for such features as flexibility, technology and collaboration.
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Do you want to see the inside of the CDI? Attend the Creative Corridors October 6th fundraiser. It's open to the public.
Undergraduate Science Center:
An update on BioMed Realty's Undergraduate Science Center project in downtown's IQ District.
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Part of the original 100+ year old brick building survives!
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The 100+ year old brick building discussed above:
Credit: Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Library
Yes, that is an apartment building between the power plant and factories. The area that is now Bailey Park once had retail, electrical structures, and some residential. Terrain on the block Bailey Park is located on was very steep and difficult to develop. A steep ridge, around three storeys tall, had to be removed to build the Art Moderne Biotech Place building in the 1930s.
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Graylyn International Conference Center & Hotel:
We have lightly covered this project over the past year or two. The Graylyn Estate has now completed its expansion into Winston-Salem's luxury boutique hotel field. The property now has 98 luxury boutique hotel rooms and an upscale restaurant. Repositioning Graylyn to become not just a conference center but also a luxury boutique hotel required several changes in 2014 and this year, including the addition of high-end amenities that leisure travelers expect (room service, dining, bicycles for exploring the property) and two new positions: director of room operations and director of food and beverage. This was North Carolina's first conference center and had rooms for conference guests for decades. Several celebrities and world leaders have stayed here, but you had to be here for a conference/event. Now anyone can stay at Graylyn, even if you're not there for a conference/event.
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Central Library:
Exterior demolition has begun! Yes, that is architect Bertram Goodhue's Centennial Church, in the background! Centennial Church in Winston-Salem looks very similar to Chicago's Rockefeller Chapel, also designed by Bertram Goodhue.
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West Salem Modern:
These are modern designed homes under construction in the historic West Salem Neighborhood. Very nice and high quality infill!
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Centennial Cold Brew:
The Winston-Salem-based hipster clothing company is planning a bar in their downtown building. It's great to see this mixed-use building add new uses.
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Off-Subject:
Winston-Salem's old downtown:
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A look at the Yadkin River:
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View from Music Floor at the Arts Library:
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Welcome Eva Draw to Winston-Salem:
Winston-Salem's newest celebrity resident is Eva Draw. She is a world famous dancer and dance teacher. Draw trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow and was the principal dancer for the Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet Theater from 1979 to 1990, according to her biography. In 2009, she joined the faculty at Royal Danish Ballet School in Copenhagen, Denmark, and she has choreographed ballets throughout her career. In 2015, she moved to Winston-Salem. #CityOfArtsAndInnovation