State Representative Donny Lambeth is back at it. Lambeth has once again filed a bill in the North Carolina House to amend the structure of the Winston-Salem City Council. But this time around, there isn’t much to object to. Instead of sweeping changes to the City Council, Lambeth’s HB334 keeps the existing City Council … More
Monday evening, the Winston-Salem City Council approved just under $600,000 in subsidies for advanced textile manufacturer Tex-Tech. A few days prior, the Forsyth County Commissioners gave Tex-Tech a nearly identical amount. Arlington Captial Partners acquired TexTech in 2017. Arlington Captial Partners (ACP) describes it… More
Today’s Burke Street is a lovely little avenue of bars, restaurants, and shops bordering the West End and West Salem neighborhoods. Before Urban Renewal, the eastern portion of Burke Street was an African American pocket neighborhood. United Metropolitan traces its roots back to Burke Street and Brookstone Avenue. In rece… More
“The downtown area continues to grow; over 1,000 new residential units were developed over the last three years. And Jason [Theil] tells me that we’ll soon have over 5,000 people living in downtown. Can you imagine that? Years ago, we said that you could shoot a cannon down Fourth Street at 5 pm and not hit anybody. Today it… More
The storefronts at the 1400 block of North Liberty were recently discussed at length by the W-S City Council. Councilmember Annette Scippio bemoaned their destruction. Councilmembers D.D. Adams and Barbara Burke both acknowledged at the February 6 Council meeting that the Liberty Corridor (Liberty Street, Cleveland Avenue, an… More
Housing Justice Now appeared in force at the February 20, 2023, meeting of the Winston-Salem City Council. HJN’s anti-eviction action at 12oo Willie Davis Drive earlier in the day helped push the City to offer residents facing eviction a generous resettlement package. But that’s not enough. There isn’t anywhe… More
The City’s pricetag for the Flats at Peters Creek has risen steadily over the years. From a modest $15,000 (2016) for a study that got the project off the ground to $1.2 million (Forsyth County paid half of the $1.2 mil) to obtain the former Budget Inn property (2019). Then Shalom and its development partners returned to the City Council… More
A man was found dead Tuesday on the steps outside Our Lady of Fatima Church in downtown Winston-Salem. The W-S Journal’s John Hinton reported that “Michael Todd Smith, 60, who had no permanent address,” was lying near the church’s Cherry Street entrance when police found him unresponsive. No foul play is s… More
“It sounds like a good idea, but it’s outrageously expensive if you were to do the whole neighborhood… I think that’s a huge amount of money to pay six graduate students.”
“They are not building anything. They are just studying. I don’t mind the concept, but I just think we are being taken … More
John Railey wrote an excellent article last week in The Chronicle. Railey criticized the City of Winston-Salem for spending hundreds of thousands on housing studies but failing to implement policy recommendations from those rather costly studies. That’s a criticism I have been making against the City for some time now.
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