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The bar area at Canteen Bistro and Market in downtown Winston-Salem
Community, Entrepreneurship

Claire Calvin on Entrepreneurship

May 10, 2019
On the way home from school every day, Claire Calvin and her 13-year-old son pass by a building on West End Boulevard that used to house the Snob Shop before the consignment store relocated to Burke Street. “That’s pretty smart,” Calvin’s son said on one…
Taqueria Luciano
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Feeding Entrepreneurship: Food Trucks in the Innovation Quarter

February 21, 2019
Even on a cold rainy afternoon, their loyalty is unwavering. Students, construction workers, lab assistants, all standing in a staggered line at Bailey Park, braving the elements for one unified purpose: the bulgogi.  The Innovation Quarter has become popular with entrepreneurs of all kinds—including mobile…
Community

Bailey Power Plant Transformation Revealed

August 15, 2018
For more than 20 years, Bailey Power Plant—located in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem, N.C.—stood dormant. The building once provided coal-fired power to the tobacco warehouses that surround it. Now, thanks to the transformation by the Innovation Quarter, one of the fastest-growing innovation districts in…
Business 40 Shutdown
Community

Business 40 Shutdown: Q&A with NCDOT’s Pat Ivey

July 2, 2018
Whether you work or live in the Innovation Quarter, come here periodically for our community events or just to visit Bailey Park, how you come and go from here will be affected in just a few short months. The shutdown and reconstruction of Business 40…
Community, Entrepreneurship

Making Winston-Salem’s Workforce More Inclusive

March 20, 2018
How Goler Community Development Corporation is Making Winston-Salem's Workforce More Inclusive Michael Suggs’ view of downtown Winston-Salem used to be, well, higher. In the almost 20 years that he worked in marketing and government relations for Reynolds American, Inc., he would look out from his…

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