1996 Brown and Keener Plan for Downtown Winston-Salem, an early downtown planning document. It was an important foundation for Downtown Winston-Salem's development. It's also telling what the plan did not emphasize; development in East Winston or the Liberty Corridor.
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1996 Brown and Keener Plan for Downtown Winston-Salem
1996 Brown and Keener Plan for Downtown Winston-Salem, an early downtown planning document. It was an important foundation for Downtown Winston-Salem's development. It's also telling what the plan did not emphasize; development in East Winston or the Liberty Corridor.
1996 Brown and Keener Plan for Downtown Winston-Salem, an early downtown planning document. It was an important foundation for Downtown Winston-Salem's development. It's also telling what the plan did not emphasize; development in East Winston or the Liberty Corridor.
Planning for Downtown Winston-Salem _
Prepared for
The City of Winston-Salem
Brown and Keener Urban Design
10 January 1996
@Planning for Downtown Winston-Salem
Table of Contents _
1 Introduction page 1
I People's Views and Previous Plans page §
II Conclusions and Recommendations page 19Lo UR ay
Locavions ofthe previous plans in and argund
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Introduction
What is the Question?
In the last decade Winston-Salem has begun and compleced
great steps chat have transformed its downtown, steps char
came on the heels of a significant economic downturn caused
by office and industrial closings and acquisitions. This new
downtown has seen the creation of new facilities for the arts,
the Sawtooth Center, a growing
s included planned
sion of the convention center and che opening of a sec-
in the Stevens Cenee:
tourist and convention industry, whic:
ond large convention hotel, and the consccuction of several
new major office buildings. Restaurants and nightlife encer-
tainment have grown, and the West End residential area has
flourished.
In spite of these accomplishments, however, the city is still
Jefe with the sense that downtown is still not quite right, thar