Projects & Construction:
Westbend Vineyards Reopening:
The Forsyth County vineyard, which opened in 1972, was sold to Walt and Sonia Breathwit of Houston, Texas. They will relocate to Winston-Salem to reopen the vineyard and brewhouse in Spring 2016. Nothing will change. The couple looked at vineyards in California and Winston-Salem's Yadkin Valley, before purchasing West Bend.
Prism Tower:
Haven't seen anything on this project in a long time. I always enjoy seeing new renderings of it.
Credit: Chris Liao
500 West Fifth Street:
Forum member dtws at WSTB reported: Clay Grubb, of Grubb Properties, was at a WSBI event and said the closing on this property was delayed by a use restriction. This issue was resolved and Grubb Properties will close on the site in Summer 2016. A long wait! The existing high-rise on the site (pictured below) will be upgraded to Class A office space, as part of the project.
Credit: Britney J Lowery
501 West Fourth Street and 641 West Fourth Street:
The same WSBI event, described above, also included an update on these two projects. Grubb Properties will construct two new residential mid-rises, along Fourth Street's Restaurant Row. I've heard these will be significant buildings. 641 West Fourth alone could cost $45 million or more, if the math from a city document is correct? It appears as if the final designs aren't complete as of this time and are shown only as massing studies, according to those who have seen them. Sadly, no images/renderings to share at this time.
Mullen Lowe Advertising Agency: Built! 
The ad agency moved into their new office, in downtown's IQ District, this month!
Credit: Ashley Lulkovitz
(October 27, 2015) After it's completed, I find construction photographs...
Credit: Sarah Shinsky
Credit: Mullen Lowe
Credit: Mullen Lowe
They kept the industrial appearance of the space:
Credit: simplyseton
This is a really nice office!
#CityOfAdaptiveReuse #Character
Dudley Theatrical Equipment Building:
This appears to be a new project or recently completed project, renovating an old industrial building into a stage lighting supply store?
Credit: Spencer Hart
MESDA Museum Renovation & Expansion: Built!
The nation's leading decorative arts museum & research center has completed their renovation and expansion. The rooms in this museum are actual interiors of colonial homes from different states in the Southeast. The rooms are decorated with antiques from those states. This museum recreates the Colonial Southeast with actual historic rooms, saved from demolished or renovated homes, and actual antiques from 250+ years ago. The restoration team restored the original Colonial paint colors to the rooms and brought these historic rooms back to their original Colonial appearance. Be sure to visit this museum on your next trip to downtown Winston-Salem.
Credit: MESDA
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This room is from an historic house in Charleston (SC). It was taken apart and moved to Winston-Salem and decorated with actual antiques from the Charleston area.
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Credit: J. Sinclair / JournalNow
Credit: MESDA
Credit: MESDA
This room is from a Colonial home in Kentucky. It was taken apart and moved to Winston-Salem and decorated with Kentucky antiques from the 1700s.
Credit: MESDA
Credit: MESDA
Novant Clemmons Medical Center Expansion:
Novant Health will break ground on this expansion on Thursday. The project will add an inpatient and surgical bed tower, as well as new operating rooms. Outpatient services and general surgical services will also expand. Rentenbach is the General Contractor and BBH Design is the architect. Stimmel Associates is the landscape and planning architect. Completion is scheduled for Summer 2017. A future project will add wellness trails to the property. I don't know if we will follow the wellness trails or not, on this thread? That project could be too small for this thread?
There are now four sizable hospital projects under construction.
Masonic Temple:
We haven't seen an update on this project in a long time. This is an older photograph of a multi-purpose room. If you are a Mason and would like to update us on this project, please join and share. This is a project we are following in this thread.
Kimpton's Cardinal Hotel & Residences:
The "Now Leasing" sign is up, for the apartments. If you want one of these apartments, with Kimpton Hotel amenities, call the number right now! Don't wait. Apartments fill very quickly in downtown Winston-Salem. If you're interested in an apartment in this building, call: (336) 529-4011
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A look at the 20th Floor. I think the wall mural is from 1929? This will become meeting space.
Credit: Trent Spivey
Novant Health Expands in Virginia:
Novant Health is working on a deal to allow it to own 60% of the University of Virginia's Healthcare System. Novant's existing medical centers, near Washington D.C., will be merged into the UVA properties, creating a massive university research medical center system with majority ownership by Winston-Salem-based Novant Health. Novant Health is currently Winston-Salem's 4th largest headquarters by revenue. This deal will create a $7 billion company (by revenue), which could become Winston-Salem's third largest headquarters. As you know, the three largest headquarters in Winston-Salem are all Fortune 500 companies. Since Novant Health is a private company, it won't appear on the Fortune 500 list, though. If it was a public company, it would become Winston-Salem's 4th Fortune 500 headquarters.
Smith Reynolds Airport:
Runway construction could begin in June or July.
Bowman Gray Medical Education Building:
The skybridge between 525@Vine and the new downtown medical school is now completed. At least on the exterior. Enjoy this view, while it's available. Early next year, construction will start on a new structure that will block this view.
Credit: NC Toast 336
Off-Subject:
Moravian Cookie Beer:
It appears as if Moravian Cookie Beer has become the official and unique beer of Winston-Salem. I've seen breweries with Moravian Cookie Beer named everything from Moravian Porter to Black Lamb. Sadly, they are only available this time of year, so be sure to enjoy a bottle this month... with a few Moravian Cookies.
Credit: Foothills Brewing
Second in Total Physicians:
Did you know: Forsyth County (Winston-Salem) is second in North Carolina in total physicians, with 1,809?
Random Photographs:
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Hockey in the streets!
Credit: Ashley Turner
The animals on the sidewalk steps are cast iron from a Winston-Salem foundry, in the mid-1800s.
Credit: Glen Fulk