Updates from iQ

Winston-Salem-based Charter Medical announced today it has established its new Innovation Hub in downtown Winston-Salem’s Innovation Quarter. The Innovation Hub features a state-of-the-art lab space where single-use studies for freezing, transportation, and protection will be performed to support the biopharma industry’s cold chain logistics process.…

Maryland-based IT solutions company Infopathways has established its newest location in the Innovation Quarter’s Bailey Power Plant—further expanding a growing cohort of innovative technology companies in one of the leading innovation districts in the world.  Located on Bailey Power Plant’s second floor within the Sparq™…

Innovation Quarter today announced the beginning of horizonal infrastructure work associated with its second phase of development. Facilitated through Innovation Quarter’s infrastructure development partner Wexford Science & Technology through general contractor The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company and civil engineering and landscape architecture contractor Stimmel Associates,  the…

Innovation Quarter and ACCESS Center for Equity + Success have partnered together to ensure that MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) contractors have a fair shot at bidding for upcoming work as part of the horizontal infrastructure work that will soon commence as part of iQ’s second…

Innovation Quarter today announced the retirement of Graydon Pleasants, Head of Development, effective June 30. For more than 20 years, Pleasants has worked to acquire and assemble 337 acres of land, build infrastructure, oversee development and activate more than 2.1 million square feet, including new…

Innovation Quarter’s impact on the economy in and surrounding Winston-Salem and Forsyth County reached more than $1.66 billion in 2022, according to a recent study conducted by TEConomy Partners, a leading provider of advanced economic and functional impact studies for a broad range of institutions,…

A retail/restaurant location in the Innovation Quarter’s Wake Forest Biotech Place that has been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic began will open later this spring. Diamondback Downtown will open and operate around 2,000 square feet of space on the ground floor of Biotech Place across…

Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. will relocate its offices to the Innovation Quarter as it continues to drive economic and workforce efforts benefiting local businesses. The organization will occupy about 7,000 square feet of space within 525@Vine, activating it to serve as a centralized welcome point for…

The Innovation Quarter announced the addition of Isaac Perry as Head of Biotech and Life Science Ecosystem Development. The Innovation Quarter is working in collaboration with Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. to develop opportunities for new life science companies to enter Forsyth County. As a part of this…