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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…
A woman running along the Long Branch Trail
Lifestyle

Long Branch Trail Enhances City Connectivity

April 26, 2018
The sun is beginning to peak around the bend of the trail. She can see a corner of light edging above the embankment to her right. The first rays of the day turn one side of the tall green blades into a grassy gold. The…
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…

Believing Before Seeing: Eric Tomlinson’s Legacy

March 1, 2018
In a project as momentous and important as Wake Forest Innovation Quarter is for Winston-Salem, there is never one person responsible, never just one person who deserves the credit. Projects like the Innovation Quarter are inspired by the vision of many and built by the…

EncepHeal: A Start-up Gets Its Start in the Innovation Quarter

February 7, 2018
At 33, Omeed Rahimi is the oldest of the three founders of EncepHeal Therapeutics, a drug development start-up located in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. Aaron Lazarus and Ayana Martin haven’t yet hit the big 3-0. The trio first combined their youthful enthusiasm while they were…

From the President: Creating Pathways – The Key to Innovation

December 7, 2017
A brand-new and groundbreaking study from researchers at Harvard, Stanford, MIT and the London School of Economics highlights one of the main challenges facing the Innovation Quarter as we strive to fulfill our ambitious mission to drive economic growth and build vibrant community. That challenge…
Community

Triad Power Players Include 13 Innovation Quarter Connections

October 30, 2017
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…

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