Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. is announcing a grant program intended to provide financial support to small businesses impacted by the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire that occurred starting on January 31, 2022. Small businesses located within one mile of the plant, with 25 or fewer full-time equivalent employees, are eligible to apply for a Weaver Fire grant.… Read More »
Category: Economic Development
Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. Announces Weaver Fire Grant Fund
Dr. Anthony Atala Awarded by the American College of Surgeons for Pioneering Work in Regenerative Medicine
Anthony Atala, MD, FACS, is the recipient of the 2022 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). He is currently the George Link, Jr. Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and the W. H. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The international surgical award from the ACS honors living surgeons who are innovators of a new development or technique… Read More »
UNCSA Selects Design Team for Stevens Center Renovation
Little Diversified Architectural Consulting and Steinberg Hart to lead Phase One of Comprehensive Renovation The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has announced the selection of the nationally recognized firms Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, based in Charlotte, and Steinberg Hart, based in Los Angeles, as the design team that will lead Phase One of… Read More »
NC Named Top State for Economic Development
North Carolina tops Site Selection Magazine’s Prosperity Cup Awards for the second year in a row North Carolina has been named the top state for economic development in Site Selection Magazine’s 2022 Prosperity Cup Awards, which recognizes state-level economic development agency success. The awards index considers capital investment project activity and other criteria from the… Read More »
Two Local Startups Receive WSPR Funding
The WSPR Fund, a Winston-Salem based angel group with over 70 members, has closed its fourth and fifth investments in local early-stage companies. Since WSPR began accepting applications in September 2021, the fund has invested over $770,000 in four companies. The latest funding includes an initial investment in Smoodi, Inc. and a follow-on investment in NVOLVE, Inc.… Read More »
Whitaker Park Grows with New Industrial Building Project
A groundbreaking at Whitaker Park symbolized the beginning of a new build that will increase capacity for industrial tenants in the complex. Brennan Investment Group is developing a new state-of-the-art 110,000 SF Class-A industrial building on the former RJ Reynolds HQ campus known as Whitaker Park in Winston-Salem, NC. With existing infrastructure at the 220-acre complex already… Read More »