Innovation Quarter in downtown Winston-Salem is expanding with plans for Phase II of development. 2025 highlights include beginning work on a $100 million Eye Institute, an extension of the Long Branch hiking and biking Trail and more.
In July, Innovation Quarter acquired the three-story Linden Center, which will become a flexible lab and biomanufacturing space, currently in the planning stages.
Isaac Perry heads biotech and life sciences ecosystem development for Innovation Quarter. He says they’re at 90% capacity, and business is booming.
"We are seeing so much activity and interest in regenerative medicine, taking a body’s cells and using them and pre-programming them to help heal the body, different than a medical device or pharmaceuticals, in that this is a true cell manufacturing, this new industry that's sort of growing and forming before our very eyes here in Winston-Salem," says Perry.
Phase II will introduce up to 2.7 million square feet of mixed-use development, plus 12 acres of accessible green space.