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A 1.3-acre vacant lot stands at the epicenter of plans to develop property in East Winston near the Innovation Quarter, with two church-related groups vying to acquire the site from Forsyth County government. The bidding comes at a time when East Winston is on the verge of seeing a game-changing 200-unit apartment complex built to provide affordable housing in a $40 million investment. The county has not even decided to sell the property, but the groups have differing ideas on what should go there: The development team associated with United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, which is bu...

Though he had every right to toss out a smug “I told you so,” Councilman Robert Clark wasn’t biting. Five years ago this summer when members of the Winston-Salem City Council voted to spend nearly $1 million in a risky hydroponics farm — they later threw another $500,000 on top of that — Clark was the lone voice to speak in opposition. No one outside the fringiest, stingiest Scrooge-set could possibly oppose trying to alleviate childhood hunger, food deserts and providing job opportunities. But as a business proposition, dropping more than $1.4 million on such a ventu...

There’s got to be an evil genius behind this. It just sounds too good to be true. The people who brought us the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, Winston-Salem’s city-within-a-city, recently announced Phase II of their futuristic project. Set between U.S. 52 to its east and downtown to its west, the next stage envisions up to 10 buildings that will harbor new medical research facilities and mixed-use development — living and retail space — on a 28-acre site. More specifically, the plan calls for 1 million square feet of new clinical, laboratory and office space, up to 450 re...

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A social media flap is exposing ongoing tensions over how the public and the public schools can share use of Hanes Park, one of the city’s prime recreational areas. And folks are wondering how much may change this fall when new signs are put up outlining when the schools have use of the track and other park facilities. When a school official was quoted in a recent Journal story as saying that the track and nearby fields at Hanes Park could be generally tied up from 2:30 to 7 p.m. for school use, that provoked outrage on social media from some who described the schools as trying to take o...