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Bailey Park: The Innovation Quarter’s Front Lawn Story

It’s been eight years since Bailey Park opened to the public in April 2015, and every year there are more events, more activity, more pups chasing frisbees, more students studying for finals in the sun. In the grand scheme of what the Innovation Quarter has…

Claire Calvin on Entrepreneurship

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…

Feeding Entrepreneurship: Food Trucks in the Innovation Quarter

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…

Bailey Power Plant Transformation Revealed

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: 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…

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