Projects & Construction:
I want to thank the photographers and local businesses, sharing updates on projects, who make this thread possible. Without you, these updates won't happen.
I often think I'm not that great at this. I do thank everyone who visits this thread each week. I didn't know so many people read this each week. I actually thought it was just 0-2 at the most.
Due to the weather, we don't have as many photographs this week. I do thank our photographers, again.
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Hotel Indigo:
All of the glass is now in place, except for a transom above an entrance on the northwest corner. They still need to install the marble below the ground floor windows.
A rare look inside the ground floor restaurant and second floor wine loft, with the chef:
Credit: chef.swing
Still haven't repaired the brick and terracotta:
Credit: nvbmusic2018
I don't think Mayfair Street Partners will clean the front facades. I say this because they used darker brick at the top of the new stair tower, to match the dirty brick at the top of the building. I'm guessing they will leave the brick dirty and keep the graffiti and gold leaf window signage for their trendy boutique hotel, to give it a gritty feel? With this building, I do wish they would clean the brick and terracotta.
Courtyard by Marriott - Downtown:
Workers are now constructing the fifth floor on the six storey building. It could top-out in another three weeks?
Downtown Hampton Inn & Suites:
Red brick building behind the modernist church:
Credit: susanmaiercolon
West End Station Apartments:
This apartment building will open February 1. Yes, the opening is a little more than two weeks from now!
Robert Hall Brewing Company:
This three building project now includes an under construction hotel, with restaurant and an indoor and outdoor event/conference space. The developer purchased a cherry bar Al Capone sat at for drinks and it will be used in the event/conference space. The bar will offer beer from the craft brewery. Plans also include an outdoor movie venue beside the brewery and hotel. The neon signs found inside the former neon factory will be restored and reused throughout the multi-use property. The restaurant may reuse an old neon sign from Salem Restaurant? The neon-themed development sounds awesome!
The craft brewery entrance will be on Ninth Street and the hotel/restaurant entrance will be on Liberty Street. The neighborhood around the brewery & hotel will have public art, bike paths, and streetscape improvements.
Two of the three buildings in this multi-use project:
Credit: rclopez79
Link Apartments 4th Street:
Developer Grubb Properties will offer $15,000 to add public art at Fourth and Spruce streets. This amount can be matched by the city's art commission. They are currently studying the history of this site for the proposed art work.
Board & Batten:
Our first look at this project's construction:
Credit: stitchdesignshop
Progress Rail Test Cell:
Progress Rail will construct an engine testing facility (Test Cell) at their location in the Alliance Science & Technology Park. Progress Rail is moving 600 jobs from Chicago to Winston-Salem as part of this project.
1834 Nissen Wagon Works:
They couldn't save it. Winston Watchman is reporting the building is currently being demolished. The 185 year-old star-shaped smokestack, from the original 1834 building, is still standing.
An historic marker will remain, to tell the site's history:
Credit: winstonwatchman
First Baptist Church Restoration:
Credit: nvbmusic2018
Bailey Power Plant Complex:
Cugino Forno Neapolitan Pizzeria will open March 1.
Kitchen equipment arrives at Bailey Power Plant for the pizzeria:
Credit: cuginoforno
Kitchen equipment arrives at Bailey Power Plant for the pizzeria:
Credit: cuginoforno
Kaleideum Science Museum:
The City of Winston-Salem is considering issuing $2 million in bonds to demolish the Liberty Plaza park space and the 1970s Brutalist office space under the park and rebuild it as a more attractive and contemporary park space leading into the new downtown science museum. No word on if the plans still include possible animial exhibits or not? I think they may want to move those indoors and maybe to the roof? We could see additional funding (reports have said an additional $30 million from Forsyth County) by this summer? I guess we shall see?
The Flatiron Restaurant & Bar:
This week, we have a new project to follow, from the same New York and Los Angeles team behind the live music venue at Winston Junction! Los Angeles-based Wade Co., Design, Inc., will design and renovate the building.
Credit: Wade Co., Design
It's interesting to see people involved in noteworthy New York City and Los Angeles bars and entertainment venues working on similar projects in Winston-Salem.
Main & Third Parking Deck:
Workers have installed a fence around the 1950s parking deck to be demolished for this project. When the smaller 1950s parking deck is demolished, Frank L. Blum Construction will build a new 8-storey parking deck with ground floor retail at this site. The parking deck will be shared by the Federal Building and the office and retail project about to start construction at 8 West Third.
Demolition fence at the site (Federal Building on the left and 8 West Third on the right):
Credit: childoftheivy
8 West Third Street:
Speaking of 8 West Third Street, which is being converted to retail and modern office space for creative and tech companies...
A look at the cornice on North Carolina's oldest steel-framed skyscraper:
Credit: dsgnr2obx
Oliver Cycling Park:
The City of Winston-Salem is considering issuing $2 million in bonds to buy the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Building and demolish it to "expand" a proposed Walter Hood designed park, at Liberty and Cemetery streets. The conservancy building the park has already acquired and demolished the Salem Iron Works' buildings for this new park. They would like to expand the proposed downtown park and need the city's assistance. Major cycling infrastructure is being constructed through and next to this proposed park. No word on where the U.S. Bankruptcy Court will move to?
Dave & Buster's:
Our first update on this entertainment project.
Credit: sensibleairsystems
Credit: sensibleairsystems
Link Apartments Innovation Quarter:
Cladding installation:
Credit: turnepf
Off-Subject:
The domed Wells Fargo Center should be on the far other side of this illustration:
Credit: coffeeparkairstream
Art Deco:
Credit: anastasiavkorol
You can see how the dome of the city's tallest is lit at night:
Credit: arielm52
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