Thank you for the replies.
The neighborhood is currently under the leadership of Eric Tomlinson PhD. It appears as if the art gallery in the power plant was his idea. Eric was the worldwide head of advanced drug delivery research at Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom and now he is in Winston-Salem, living in the Gallery Lofts. You can see the direction the east side of downtown is moving-in (pharmaceutical and tech companies) and the reason so many UK inspired proposals are appearing in the neighborhood during the past year. The Tate Modern inspired idea in the power plant and the Bicycle Superhighway are good examples. He will soon announce a new name for the neighborhood and an effort to make that name well-known. It will likely have something to do with innovation? He seemed to stress that.
This is the Bath Waterway (photograph below). Lauren was 100% against crossing the construction line taped-off area or the barricades to reach the waterway, so I didn't go over there, but someone has posted the Bath Waterway with the Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine construction site around it at Winston-Salem's forum. Thank you to rmhpmi for this image. Compare the size of the waterway to the size of the construction vehicles. They have to grade the land around it level. It was extremely rough terrain before.
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Many years ago, this was the area where trucks would load and unload at the port, with long buildings containing walls of docks lining it. Sometime in the late 1960s/early 70s, Greyhound bought much of the land you see above for a major bus hub and used the highway ramp serving the port. You can see this hub over Winston-Salem in old Greyhound maps. All of that was demolished so they could construct research labs. On the other side of the ridge with the highway in the background, you'll find an old graveyard (stones dating back to the mid-1700s) and construction on the shared research campus for Salem College, UNCSA, and Winston-Salem State University. Salem College is expected to double in size.