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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 19 Lo UR ay Locavions ofthe previous plans in and argund lent 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

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