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Phase II of the Innovation Quarter has been updated. Development is expected to commence in 2022. Featuring 10 buildings and a total of almost 3 million square feet to be built in the 28 acres along Research Pkwy mostly between E. Third Street and Salem Parkway. The new phase will feature the same ground level mixed use activation found in the existing district where over 2.1 million square feet has already been developed. In Phase II, one million of the square footage will be dedicated to clinical/lab/office space along with an additional 30,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space and up to 450 additional apartment units. The new phase is centered around Fogle Commons which is a linear park capable of hosting larger scale activities such as musical and art performances. All told, 15 acres is anticipated to be developed for new programmable green space and the extension of the existing Long Branch Trail by a half mile reaching over toward East Winston by connection with the E. Third Street bridge. innovationquarter.com/press-releases/phase-ii-new-development/

Thanks for dropping by but don’t be an enabler Nick :-)

She in fact was internationally renowned in own right. The tower is considered the most significant architectural project in the entire Triad along with the old RJR Tower from another era.

Per the WSJ, Ceasar Pelli, world renowned architect, who designed some of the tallest buildings in the world and other major urban landmarks as died at age 92. He was the architect who designed the Wells Fargo (Wachovia) Tower. The 460 foot tall skyscaper was completed in 1995 at the cost of $80 million dollars. Pelli designed the building with Moravian elements which are widely found in Winston-Salem. Notable aspects include the Moravian Arch, which was used in the dome's design and the Moravian Star which was used in the Lobby's mosaics. Pelli said the tower design resembled a rosebud about to bloom. It is sheathed in Olympic white granite and is the only granite domed skyscraper in the world. The granite comes from a single quarry in Sardinia in Italy. The dome itself rises 59 feet and houses mechanical equipment. Pelli also had another Winston project which was the Worrell Center located on the Wake Forest Campus and was built in 1993 Pelli who has been cited as one of the most influential architects of his time also designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which at 1,485 feet in one of the tallest buildings in the world.

The transformation of the old 18 story GMAC Tower has been coming on strong recently per the Winston-Salem Journal. Prominent Business leader Don Flow and Grubb Properties of Charlotte partnered up on the project back in 2017 to redevelop the tower and adjacent site into a business center with apartments and retail extending to W. Fourth Street. The property was purchased for $6.15 million, with a pledge to spend $10 million on upgrades to the building, including a recently completed street level lobby space. Teall Capital Partners, a private equity firm led by local entrepreneur Ben Sutton, the founder of sports marketing firm ISP which later became IMG College which is currently located on N. Trade Street Downtown. Sutton left his chairman emeritus role at IMG College in 2016 to establish Teall which invests in various businesses. Teall is taking over the over 18,000 sq. ft. 12th of the building to serve as a base of operations for their various businesses. Also announced recently is that Flywheel, the local provider of co-working innovation and community spaces for startups, consultants and freelancers that is currently housed in the Center for Design Innovation in the Innovation Quarter will be taking over the entire 18,035 sq. ft. 8th floor of the building in October, thereby doubling their operational space for their 135 membership entities including non profits, services, educational, corporate and startup companies. The number of employees involved range from 1-16. Their new location will triple their private office count with larger offices, increasing their co-working area by 25%. The startups involved with Flywheel that are expanding and adding jobs include OrbitalRX (software integration for hospital pharmacies); Leading Role (VR content development platform); Amporgee (operational excellence for production workers); Fluree (blockchain database platform); MedXoom (healthcare payment identify) Threadsketch (cybersecurity); One Donation ( charitable giving platform); and Wellnicity (actionable insights for self insured benefits plans) Winston Starts, a non profit group that aims to accelerate the growth of startup businesses. It is providing space to 12 tenants on the 4th and 5th floors, taking in 36,000 square feet. Other tenants previously installed in the building include: Center for Women in Entrepreneurship and Business (Salem College), Center for Private Business (Wake Forest), Kenan Institute (UNC School of the Arts) and Forsyth Country Day School on the 3rd Floor and Grubb Properties along with a 5,000 sq. ft. fitness center on the 2nd. The Flow Automotive Companies is the anchor tenant, taking in floors 14-18 and about 90,000 sq. ft. of space for its workforce of about 140. Plans are advancing forward with the residential portion of the project that will be facing W. Fourth Street. Grubb has worked out a deal with the City of Winston-Salem of having a portion of the units set aside for affordable housing.

The transformation of the old 18 story GMAC Tower has been coming on strong recently per the Winston-Salem Journal. Prominent Business leader Don Flow and Grubb Properties of Charlotte partnered up on the project back in 2017 to redevelop the tower and adjacent site into a business center with apartments and retail extending to W. Fourth Street. The property was purchased for $6.15 million, with a pledge to spend $10 million on upgrades to the building, including a recently completed street level lobby space. Teall Capital Partners, a private equity firm led by local entrepreneur Ben Sutton, the founder of sports marketing firm ISP which later became IMG College which is currently located on N. Trade Street Downtown. Sutton left his chairman emeritus role at IMG College in 2016 to establish Teall which invests in various businesses. Teall is taking over the over 18,000 sq. ft. 12th of the building to serve as a base of operations for their various businesses. Also announced recently is that Flywheel, the local provider of co-working innovation and community spaces for startups, consultants and freelancers that is currently housed in the Center for Design Innovation in the Innovation Quarter will be taking over the entire 18,035 sq. ft. 8th floor of the building in October, thereby doubling their operational space for their 135 membership entities including non profits, services, educational, corporate and startup companies. The number of employees involved range from 1-16. Their new location will triple their private office count with larger offices, increasing their co-working area by 25%. The startups involved with Flywheel that are expanding and adding jobs include OrbitalRX (software integration for hospital pharmacies); Leading Role (VR content development platform); Amporgee (operational excellence for production workers); Fluree (blockchain database platform); MedXoom (healthcare payment identify) Threadsketch (cybersecurity); One Donation ( charitable giving platform); and Wellnicity (actionable insights for self insured benefits plans) Winston Starts, a non profit group that aims to accelerate the growth of startup businesses. It is providing space to 12 tenants on the 4th and 5th floors, taking in 36,000 square feet. Other tenants previously installed in the building include: Center for Women in Entrepreneurship and Business (Salem College), Center for Private Business (Wake Forest), Kenan Institute (UNC School of the Arts) and Forsyth Country Day School on the 3rd Floor and Grubb Properties along with a 5,000 sq. ft. fitness center on the 2nd. The Flow Automotive Companies is the anchor tenant, taking in floors 14-18 and about 90,000 sq. ft. of space for its workforce of about 140. Plans are advancing forward with the residential portion of the project that will be facing W. Fourth Street. Grubb has worked out a deal with the City of Winston-Salem of having a portion of the units set aside for affordable housing.

Nice comeback....

And so you've admitted that you set it up as a comparison. I rest my case with the jury

The point is if I were you with your history, I wouldn't compare. If you feel you're being misconstrued, then shut up about any comparison and no one can twist your words.

Says the Master of Deflection AlmaPinnix, there's no big fuss whatsoever. Just setting the record straight. One would think that a poster that has been identified by multiple posters over several years as being somewhat provocative regarding such contrast & compare tactics regarding neighboring cities would catch a clue & refrain, but no such luck. The point is that this Galyon station thread didn't need any mention of Union Station in order to be a fully informative post. That's the simple truth of the matter.

Unfortunately the Boi is incapable of not succumbing to resurrecting a city vs city debate because he cannot overcome his passive aggressive posture toward the Camel City. People who have not been active followers on this site for the last 8-9 years cannot truly appreciate the full & complete dialogue that has occurred regarding his exhausting need to have GSO be front & center regarding all aspects of this site as well as other sites. He had a perfectly informative post on his city's train station and even incorporated earlier stations in GSO as part of the dialogue. It was fully complete and was something that you, jthomas, as well as others could have enjoyed and found informative. But he just had to set up a compare and contrast situation with Winston's Union Station and to make sure to infer it to a smaller size, when the fact of the matter is that the Winston station is 3 stories in height, had part of its original structure destroyed when it was decommissioned as a train station and thus is not that much "smaller" than the Galyon station. And then when it is brought up, he gets all indignant & gets a persecution complex. It truly is sad. I too was bewildered by the photo dump of the Elm Street storefronts. Those should have been set up as a separate topic IMO to allow posters to weigh in on the particulars of that topic. Could have been a pretty vibrant thread. It's great that both cities have invested in their vintage train stations and have them in a position to maximize the transportation potential sometime in the future.

Now is the first time I have had the opportunity to respond to this post that you have revised numerous times from your original comment, which again long time posters to this space as well as City Data will be all too familiar with. I can assure you that I too have had quite a few PMs from people over the years that don't agree with you and also don't want to get caught up in your manufactured drama . For the record, there have been plenty of posters from places other than Winston that have publicly called out your behavior, Raleigh, Charlotte & even Wash. DC posters come to mind. So the questioning of the motives behind your supposedly "innocuous" comments have been pointed out from across the land. The actual true point of the matter is there was no general negative reaction in this thread other than you took a statement from another site that was never written on Urban Planet; a statement that I myself found a bit too strong and inserted in this thread in order to purposely resurrect a feud of your own making that dissipated quite sometime ago to once again passive aggressively take a swing at people that you harbor a grudge that are not participants on this site. It's unfortunate. I've seen snarky comments between RDU & Charlotte posters regarding the oneupsmanship of their respective cities and have noticed that no one seems to take as thin skinned a reaction as you tend to do. It is indeed puzzling and you should just try harder to leave the your perceived slights out of the public domain. My recommendation is that you should rest in the comfort that there are many great things happening in your favorite Triad downtown and there will be more to come. God Bless!

Classic Passive Aggressive Boi Behavior. You could have taken that position several posts back. RichardC gave a personal opinion regarding the aesthetics of the Carrroll SOB project. You offered a different point of view. Check/CheckMate. Yet you could not pass up the opportunity to disparage/denigrate bloggers from Winston-Salem from a totally different forum that's not even a part of this dialogue. This project has not even been a topic of discussion there. Someone WHO LIVES IN CHARLOTTE referenced this project in a post of a different topic. You apparently have been a pretty busy Peeping Tom over there. You chose to use that one off comment to yet again further perpetuate this False Narrative of your own creation that bloggers from Winston have this overarching "Hatred" and "Envy" of GSO which is ridiculous. Long time observers of Urban Planet as well as City Data have experienced your history of transference, gaslighting & expertly playing the victim. You among all the posters on these sites seem to have the most issues with a good number of other posters. At some point I believe most people would take a moment or two of self reflection to ponder why that is. But not you. With regards to the Carroll SOB, it has the earmarks of a good project. I agree the tower portion of this iteration is much improved over the previous tower although if the tower remains at 180,000 square feet @ 20 stories, that going to be a pretty thin 9,000 sq. ft. per floor plate. Love the ground floor retail.

Here's the rendering of what the final product will look like. It really will enhance the vibrancy of the central district of the Innovation Quarter along with the adjacent Bailey Power Plant project.

Construction has commenced on Grubbs Properties second LInk Apartments project in the Camel City. The $43.5+ million project is located across from the Bailey Power Plant project & Bailey Park in the Heart of the Innovation Quarter. It consists of 344 apartment units wrapping around an 872 space parking garage, the spaces of which will be utilized by IQ district buildings in addition to the apartment units. Included in the project are 2 retail spaces totaling 5,000 sq. ft. fronting on East Fifth Street. The number of units makes this the largest apartment complex in Downtown so far unseating Plant 64 ( 243 units). The retail portion will further invigorate the area creating a synergy with the Bailey Power Plant mixed use development across the street offering possible additional street front dining options depending on who leases the space. It also does an awesome job in increasing the density of the downtown urban grid by occupying an entire city block. The photos show the project looking toward the west and south along with the rendering of what the project will look like upon completion. https://twitter.com/fkricka Looking toward the west: Looking south:

Looks like Zimmerman can pull his sign down. http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/trader-joe-s-says-greensboro-not-currently-on-our-list/article_f72b7951-4d77-5d8c-a24d-067f0337ad57.html Regarding the Ballpark Office Bldg. that structure looks really great & is a great addition to DT GSO.

A very interesting article about Wake Forest's partner in the development of the IQ. An exciting part of the article is the mention of the next step for the district: Wexford and Wake Forest—which currently controls 130 acres of land in Winston-Salem—are now huddling about their next redevelopment project: the creation of a second downtown on 45 acres between two highways that, if realized, would double the size of the Innovation Quarter. Tomlinson calls Wexford “an amazing partner” with which Wake Forest “is joined at the hip” in development, design, and construction meetings that concern the Quarter. “They have been willing to share success factors with us, and we are now part of a pantheon of 13 innovation centers,” says Tomlinson. “It’s been a complete pleasure working with them.” https://www.bdcnetwork.com/movers-shapers-innovation-superchargers

Was downtown earlier today and it is interesting with the number of streets being blocked due to construction is striking. DTWS certainly can't be described as stagnant for sure! Currently the entire block of East Fifth between the Embassy Suites & the Benton Convention Center is completely blocked, as is the entire block of East Fifth between Vine & Patterson due to the continual reconstruction of the Bailey Power Plant project. That is also the same block that Grubb Properties' massive apartment (344 units) with ground floor retail and a 872 space parking garage. That project is projected to begin construction shortly, so this street may be blocked indefinitely. Church Street is blocked between East Fourth & East Fifth for a renovation project. There's also lane closures for the O'Hanlon Bldg. & Pepper Bldg./Hotel Indigo rehab projects on Liberty & East Fifth is also restricted at Spruce Street for the Central Library construction project. There are rumblings of pending projects in the West End area of Downtown that should be producing street restrictions as well. This can be aggravating for motorists but lends a certain vibrancy with all the construction it entails.

Fox8 updating the Triad as to all the changes happening in the WFIQ. The overview of what the build out of the IQ will be is quite impressive with upwards of 9,000 employees and thousands of students from multiple colleges & universities. The Venture Café that is opening up in the next few weeks was specifically mentioned as a game changing part of the equation downtown. http://myfox8.com/2016/12/27/innovation-quarter-a-game-changer-for-winston-salem/

Wake Forest Innovation Quarter has a press release on the following news reported in the TBJ. This is outstanding news for the further development of a entrepreneurial network for the benefit not just of the WFIQ and Winston-Salem, but entrepreneurs from all over the Triad can come and set up shop for the betterment of the entire region. Downtown Winston-Salem co-working space Flywheel will be moving to the Center for Design Innovation in the south district of the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter in late January from its current location at the 525@Vine building. It's part of a new program partnership between Flywheel and the center, a 13.7 million building that opened in 2015 and serves as a partnership in education, research and design between Winston-Salem State University, the UNC-School of the Arts and Forsyth Technical Community College. Both Flywheel and CDI are focused on entrepreneurial skill development and resources for startups. Peter Marsh, cofounder of Flywheel, said moving into a new space at CDI was an "opportunity we just could not turn down." "CDI offers our members a perfect complement of experimental research spaces, including rapid prototyping, flexible multimedia and computer labs, and the ideas and expertise of faculty across all disciplines," Marsh said. "All of these build capacity for both the academic communities and Flywheel’s community of freelancers and startups to put to use to launch and grow their businesses. UNCSA Chancellor Lindsay said he was excited for Flywheel to continue incubating ideas, hatching startups, and launching successful companies at CDI. "Our partnership will foster artistic and entrepreneurial exploration to grow the local economy and fulfill Winston-Salem’s potential to become a leading cultural capital in the South," he said. WSSU Chancellor Elwood Robinson added that the partnership is "an exciting opportunity to develop a dynamic entrepreneurial hub in the city." "As part of our strategic plan for 2016-2021, we are striving to provide all our students with exposure to high-impact experiences and creative thought," he said. "Through this partnership, our students will have exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship, which I hope sparks within them a desire to be the next change agents, pioneers, and thought leaders.”

A nice read out of Our State magazine that is a great reflection of the unique entrepreneurial energy permeating the Camel City...Great pictures throughout the article as well! https://www.ourstate.com/like-a-local-winston-salem/?platform=hootsuite

Venture Café was formally debuted in the Camel City on Monday. The nonprofit organization will initially open in space in Biotech Place or in Inmar Inc. in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter in downtown Winston-Salem early next year. It will then look for more permanent space within the next 18 months. This will be the organization’s fifth location. Venture Café Winston-Salem is currently conducting a search for a founding executive director and expects to conduct final interviews in early January. The organization also plans to appoint a program director later in 2017. Interested applicants can visit the organization’s website at http://www.venturecafewinstonsalem.org. Venture Cafe Global Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass., was created to support the global network of these independent Venture Cafe organizations. The institute offers training, resources and guides the expansion. “It is an organization that does programming all geared toward bringing the innovation community together,” said Travis Sheridan, president of the Venture Café Global Institute. This innovation includes bringing together health-technology, the arts, government, education and nonprofits. “In doing so, we have these cross-sector collisions,” Sheridan said. “I call them serendipitous collisions — getting the right people in the right place.” He described Venture Cafe’s “Thursday Night Gathering” as a small conference on a weekly basis, saying that more than 500 people now participate in the event every week in St. Louis, compared with about 100 in the early stages of the event there. Sheridan said that Venture Café Global Institute chose to expand in Winston-Salem because of the city’s growing innovation community in the Innovation Quarter and Winston-Salem, known as the City of Arts and Innovation, along with the support of local businesses and institutions. He wants Venture Café Winston-Salem to align with existing organizations and programs in Winston-Salem, such as Flywheel’s New Ventures Accelerator, Forsyth Technical Community College’s Small Business Center and the Creative Startups program hosted by the Center for Creative Economy. There are also plans for Venture Café to add to the series of free community events offered within the Innovation Quarter including Network Night, Yoga at Bailey Park, Boost, Innovation & Cinema and Engage. David Mounts, co-chairman for the Entrepreneurial Culture Committee of the Winston-Salem Alliance, and chairman and chief executive of Inmar, said, “Recent visitors to Winston Salem quickly realize that it has evolved to be one of the world’s leading innovation districts.” He also said that the Triad is recognized as a top business environment for starting a new business. “Joining Venture Café’s network provides important support and easy access for those seeking to invest in innovation and unique growth that is now occurring in our city and region,” Mounts said. In two to three years, Mounts hopes to see a thriving community with 100s of entrepreneurs and more than 100 new enterprises. He said that Venture Cafe is for everyone and is open to the entire Triad. http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/venture-caf-to-open-in-the-innovation-quarter-in-winston/article_eda8afa1-86da-5534-ac14-9508a68d6bc3.html

Nice view of Downtown, photo courtesy of Denise Hunt

I don't think Greensboro taxpayers are out of the woods yet....

Winston-Salem's WFIQ is the latest location of a trailblazing entrepreneur networking organization called Venture Cafe'. There are locations in Boston, Miami, St Louis and Rotterdam. This represents a further strengthening of the infrastructure needed to make the IQ shine as one of the premier research parks in the country. Venture Café Winston-Salem, supports the innovation and entrepreneurship community in an effort to improve the human condition. It strives to broaden the application of innovation, increase diversity and inclusion in the innovation sector and connect innovation communities locally, regionally, nationally and globally. The organization will launch in early 2017 - stay tuned! The mission of the Venture Café has four pillars: (1) to build and strengthen communities of innovation, (2) to expand the definition of innovation and entrepreneurship, (3) to build a more inclusive innovation economy and (4) to share the stories of innovators in order to teach and inspire others to become innovators and support innovators’ work. s - visit our growing network of sites below!é Winston-Salem is joining a global network of local Venture CaféVenture Caf https://www.venturecafewinstonsalem.org/