Downtown Winston-Salem Developments

[RichardC]

Having Mast in the Arts District will help tip Winston-Salem beyond the threshold with retail downtown.  The opening looked packed, with people standing in the street to get in, and from what I've read, business has been awesome so far.

[zalo]

Here's a news release regarding the opening of another amenity downtown. With breweries, distilleries and cigar lounges, the entertainment options are ever growing. I've been to their location off Stratford in Hanestown. It has a pretty cool vibe.

 

 

We are opening a shop right in the heart of Down Town Winston Salem. We will be located on the 6th and Trade Street. This is an ideal location due to it’s proximity of anchor establishments in the Downtown Area. We will have a 100 sq foot Spanish Cedar lined walk-in humidor and offer the best cigars to the Downtown Winston Salem market. It’s an exciting time and we have had plans to open a remote shop in the area for a while. The space will be built to suite our needs and will feature glass wall street frontage and a canopy. We hope to cultivate the cigar culture in Downtown Winston Salem and find it an appropriate location because of the deep history of tobacco this city has.


http://twincitycigars.com/
 

[zalo]

In the shadow of the Innovation Quarter, a homegrown startup incubator, started by local entrepreneur Mark Pegram, has set up shop on West Fifth near Small Batch Brewing. Links to both the incubator itself as well as a couple of companies operating from there. The City of Arts & Innovation marches on...

https://www.facebook.com/wsincubator

https://www.outpourfilms.com/

http://www.fastba.com/

Edited June 4, 2015 by zalo

[zalo]

Check out the lineups for this year's Downtown Summer Music series, Summer on Trade & Downtown Jazz. Still going strong after all these years.


http://www.dwsp.org/music/

[zalo]

Here's some random shots taken around Camel City by local photographer Jeff Silkstone. Awesome stuff. Looks like someone to call if one is looking for a great professional photographer.


http://www.jsilkstonephotography.com/winstonsalemnc

Edited June 16, 2015 by zalo

[NikOnder]

Great photos, thanks for sharing

[zalo]

Michael Hastings/Winston-Salem Journal

Pulliam’s, an iconic Winston-Salem hot-dog stand, is coming downtown. Owner Mark Flynt said he has signed a lease to open a second location of Pulliam’s in the Downtown Arts District. The new location will be at 545 North Trade St., next to Body and Soul boutique. The building, at the intersection of Sixth and Trade streets, is owned by Mike Coe. Flynt hopes to open the second location in October. The original Pulliam’s, at 4400 Walkertown Road in the Ogburn Station neighborhood near Smith Reynolds Airport, will remain open.

The new spot will serve Pulliam’s prized hot dogs, but not barbecue. Over the years, Pulliam’s has received local, regional and national recognition for its hot dogs. “Every review I’ve ever read talks about the hot dogs, but not the barbecue,” Flynt said. “And in this space, it wouldn’t really work to put in a (barbecue) cooker.” Pulliam’s is an institution in Winston-Salem, having been established in 1910 by John S. Pulliam.

Just two families have owned Pulliam’s in its 105-year history. Flynt’s father, “Big Ed” Flynt, worked for John Pulliam for years before buying the restaurant from him in 1958. His wife, Helen Flynt, inherited ownership when Ed Flynt died in 2000. Mark Flynt and his sister Gayla Posey ran it together for a few years, and now Flynt is the sole owner. Flynt, 56, has worked at Pulliam’s his entire career. “I started working for my dad when I was 14,” he said. His daughter, Caitlin, now works in the restaurant and will be in charge of the downtown location.

The new Pulliam’s won’t be covered floor-to-ceiling with photos and paraphernalia from NASCAR drivers, musicians and others who have stopped by for a hot dog and a soda, as the original Pulliam's is. But it may feature some downtown images instead, Flynt said. It will have counter service and probably no chairs or tables, just like the original Pulliam’s. :uum: “We’re going to try to put stumps in the alley,” said Flynt, referring to the tree stumps that customers often sit on outside the original location. The old Pulliam’s menu was pretty much limited to barbecue, hot dogs, chips and sodas in bottles. The chips will be replaced by French fries in the new location. “We never had room here (for a deep fryer), but people always wanted them,” Flynt said. Flynt also plans to add hamburgers and possibly a chicken sandwich. Sodas still will be sold in bottles.

Flynt hasn’t decided on hours yet, but he said the new Pulliam’s probably will be open six days for lunch. “And I may stay open later for Gallery Hop and special events,” he said. Flynt said he has a lot of work ahead of him before he opens, and he credited Coe with helping him bring Pulliam’s downtown. “Mike and I have been friends for probably 35 years. He’s been after me about five years to do this,” Flynt said. Though the original Pulliam’s will remain open, Flynt is excited about having a more central location. “Ogburn Station is nothing like it was,” he said. “There are almost no businesses up here, and it’s too far to drive for someone who gets only 30 or 40 minutes for lunch.”

Though people rave about Pulliam’s hot dogs, Flynt said that the atmosphere and the people have been the keys to Pulliam’s success. “People love to come up here, have a hot dog, meet people, have a conversation,” Flynt said. “We’re going to try to keep the same type of atmosphere. It’s the people who walk in the door who make Pulliam’s special.”

So I checked & this building was bought back in April of this year by the Mayor of Trade Street. I'm glad that he's moving quickly to get tenants such as Pulliams & the UPS Store open. I wished he had that same urgency regarding the Brazilian Steak House in the Pepper Building. Just don't get why they are not moving quicker to open that street level space. The apartments could come on line later.

[zalo]

Downtown Winston makes another list of the Coolest Downtowns in the Country!

 

http://www.answers.com/article/1227492/the-12-coolest-downtowns-in-america?param4=ysa-us-de-lifestyle&param1=346204500#slide=6

[zalo]

July Fourth in the Camel City.    Photos courtesy of J.Silkstone Photography. They do awesome work!

Full Moon over Downtown Winston.

 

[zalo]

The efforts of the Creative Corridors Coalition is receiving national recognition in the New York Times in an article that highlights cutting edge innovation in a number of American cities. It is coming on the heels of other recent articles not only in the NYT but other national publications touting the groundbreaking projects that are re-imaging the Camel City as a new economy city of the future.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/21/us/innovation-us-cities.html?_r=1

[zalo]

An outstanding comprehensive article on the transformation of Downtown Winston-Salem over the last quarter century from nationally known Politico magazine. A fascinating behind the scenes view of how Camel City got to where it is today. I really believe that the  best is yet to come.

 

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/winston-salem-technology-tobacco-town-214377

[KJHburg]

Walked around downtown WS for the first time on Thursday. Liked all the adaptive reuses of high rises into apartments, hotels like the Kimpton, etc. You have preserved your older buildings and that is great. Plus the Innovation quarter area looks like it is booming with more office and residential  users. Here are some photos I take. What I would suggest is just more of the same more residents, more offices, more restaurants and shops. You have a great base. Love the Kimpton Cardinal hotel that is great reuse of a fantastic building. Is the Pepper building being converted to apartments or what? I noticed a renovation in progress there. 

[zalo]

Thanks for posting all these pictures!!   The Pepper Building was slated to have apartments on the upper floors and a Brazilian Steak House on the ground floor. But another developer came in and bought the property from the original apartment/restaurant developer and is now converting the building into a 75 room Hotel Indigo with a restaurant called Sir Winston (after a restaurant that was located in the bldg.'s basement years ago) on the ground floor. The Brazilian steak house is now going into the restaurant space in the Stuart Municipal Building at First/Main (old Twin City Chop House)

Here's an excerpt from a recent WS Journal article about the  Hotel Indigo restaurant:  

Simon Burgess, the managing director of Mayfair Street Partners, said that Mayfair will run the restaurant under separate ownership from Indigo, a 75-room hotel that will also be in the building. The company named the restaurant after the Sir Winston Steakhouse, which was a well-known downtown steakhouse decades ago. “We’re not trying to re-create the menu, but we just want something that involves the neighborhood,” Burgess said.

Vince Giancarlo has been hired as the executive chef. Giancarlo, 29, is a New Jersey native who moved to the Outer Banks as a teenager. He is a graduate of the culinary program at Johnson & Wales University and has worked at such Charlotte restaurants as Baku and Cantina 1511. He currently is working at Melisse, a Michelin two-star restaurant in Los Angeles. Giancarlo said that Sir Winston’s will not be a steakhouse. Instead, he plans a contemporary Southern menu, and he has already started developing relationships with area farmers to supply the restaurant with local meat and produce.

“We will offer playful interpretations of Southern classics,” he said. Expect quite a few types of meat to be cooked on a wood-fired grill.  Giancarlo is looking forward to offering plenty of seafood. “The coast is why I have such a strong appreciation for fresh seafood,” he said. “I’m obsessed!” Sir Winston’s will be on the ground floor of the building. The company also plans to utilize space in the basement, either as a banquet room for private dining or as a second restaurant.

Burgess said that the removal of asbestos has been completed and that demolition will be complete in about two weeks. He estimates that Sir Winston’s will open in September.

[zalo]

Nice view of Downtown, photo courtesy of Denise Hunt

 

[rancenc]

Proposals for a new downtown courthouse in Winston-Salem.

http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/bar-association-presents-another-option-for-forsyth-county-courthouse/article_f3dd42f4-8722-506e-b507-0951e3641c39.html

 

[zalo]

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

[zalo]

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.

[KJHburg]

Story about growth in downtown Winston Salem http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2017/01/06/wakes-growth-dominos-residences-revealdowntown-w-s.html?ana=e_ae_set1&s=article_du&ed=2017-01-06&u=oAaDx%2B74FoP4qOJ%2By4AU6dhJPpc&t=1483745280&j=76995481

[RichardC]

Winston-Salem and the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter is the cover story of the February issue of Business North Carolina magazine. 

http://businessnc.com/remaking-winston-salem/

The work to date...over $700M in investment, repurposing of nearly 3 million square feet of dead unused factory and office space, and new infrastructure including streets and parks has been transformative for the east end of downtown.  The next phases will incorporate all new construction.

Edited February 19, 2017 by RichardC

[RichardC]

The location is not yet determined, but Winston-Salem is to be the new headquarters for the National Sports Media Association.

 

http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/national-sports-media-association-moving-to-winston-salem/article_6ea0756c-0b0b-5e0c-9419-322351373528.html

[RichardC]

Flow Automotive Companies owner Don Flow is purchasing the 18-story GMAC tower and teaming with Charlotte-based Grubb Properties to redevelop the tower and build a new $48M mixed use residential, office, and retail complex facing Fourth Street in the center city.  He will remove all his corporate services to the downtown Winston-Salem location from sites across North Carolina and Virginia.  This is Grubbs third project in Winston-Salem.

http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/redevelopment-of-gmac-building-in-downtown-winston-salem-announced/article_c1376dec-858f-5a0f-922d-a0df1cb7f78f.html

Edited March 16, 2017 by RichardC

[cityboi]

Looks like the Bailey Power Plant has snagged its first restaurant. This should help spur other business opening at the plant. 

Rendering of the redeveloped Bailey Power Plant to include restaurants, offices and entertainment. It will become an entertainment and social hub for the Innovation Quarter. 

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2017/06/14/popular-restaurateur-picks-bailey-power-plant-for.html

Edited June 14, 2017 by cityboi

[KJHburg]

Was in town for the day like all the construction I see and renovations of the old tobacco factories.  

[KJHburg]

Don Flow's plans for the GMAC building in downtown include offering free office space for startup companies which is great. Seeking tax credits for the surrounding apartment development. https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2017/07/26/flow-grubb-properties-seek-tax-credits-gmac.html?ana=e_me_set1&s=newsletter&ed=2017-07-26&u=oAaDx%2B74FoP4qOJ%2By4AU6dhJPpc&t=1501076626&j=78603161   What a deal only $21 a square foot to purchase this building! Replacement cost would be 5-6 times that at least. 

Edited July 26, 2017 by KJHburg

[cityboi]

Hyatt Place coming to downtown Winston-Salem. Looks like it's going to replace the Staybridge Suites that was suppose to go up next to the planned Hotel Indigo in the Pepper  Building. This Hyatt Place will be constructed differently. They will be modular units constructed in a Virginia factory and assembled on site. Don't know what to think of that but Hyatt Place is the kind of mid/upper scale flag that a city would want downtown.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2017/08/24/exclusive-new-hyatt-place-hotel-featuring-modular.html