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Bailey Power Plant Reborn as a Home for Innovation, Startups…and Great Food

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…

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

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…

Arts, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Event Recap

Juneteenth Festival 2018

A recap of an Innovation & Cinema movie screening on June 16, 2018 in Bailey Park in the Innovation Quarter.

Community, Entrepreneurship

Making Winston-Salem’s Workforce More Inclusive

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…

A couple of entrepreneurs playing with a drone

Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Ecosystem

Unexpected Opportunities: Exploring Innovative Education in the Innovation Quarter

The Miracle on Ice. Hoosiers. The Jamaican bobsled team. Everyone loves an underdog. We cheer for fourth quarter comebacks and Cinderella stories, the ones that inspire movies like Eddie the Eagle, The Blindside and Rudy. There’s something about the unexpected that resonates with us. Many worried what would happen to…

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Triad Power Players Include 13 Innovation Quarter Connections

The Triad Business Journal just released the 2017 Triad Power Players. These are the individuals in our region who, according to the Triad Business Journal, use their influence "to champion truly catalytic efforts, to put their reputations and dollars at risk and to execute plans…

Arts, Community, Ecosystem

Making Space: Growing the Maker Movement in Winston-Salem

As dusk begins to fall outside the open garage door, snippets of conversation make their way through a smattering of whirring, rattling moving noises that surround the near-dozen people conversing and crafting. Parked just inside the garage door is an electric bike, custom designed with…

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Editorial: What Fence Painting Taught Me About Community Building

Like many of you, I spent last weekend working in my yard. Specifically, I was painting my fence—a little spring brighten-up with a fresh coat of sparkling white. My neighbor, one of our closest friends, saw me and came over to the fence with her…

A group gathers for a Venture Cafe programming session.

Community, Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

Venture Café Winston-Salem: Joining a Global Innovation Network

It’s a typical Thursday in St. Louis, though perhaps colder and gustier than some. But even the wind doesn’t dissuade the 576 people gathered at the Cambridge Innovation Center in the Cortex district near downtown St. Louis. Karen Barnes is among them—braving the cold, far from home…

A collage of 10 Ways Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Fuses Art and Innovation

Arts, Community

Living Up to the Name: 10 Ways Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Fuses Art and Innovation

Shortly after Winston-Salem adopted its new motto—The City of Arts and Innovation—Jim Sparrow, chief executive officer of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, wrote about the importance of “living up to our name.” That’s exactly what’s been happening at Wake Forest Innovation Quarter.…

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Bailey Power Plant Reborn as a Home for Innovation, Startups…and Great Food

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

Juneteenth Festival 2018

Making Winston-Salem’s Workforce More Inclusive

Unexpected Opportunities: Exploring Innovative Education in the Innovation Quarter

Triad Power Players Include 13 Innovation Quarter Connections

Making Space: Growing the Maker Movement in Winston-Salem

Editorial: What Fence Painting Taught Me About Community Building

Venture Café Winston-Salem: Joining a Global Innovation Network

Living Up to the Name: 10 Ways Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Fuses Art and Innovation

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