Last week the Winston-Salem City Council approved an additional $1.4 million toward the renovation of the Benton Convention Center, pushing the cost to $19.9 million. Big surprise there. According to…
Renovations to Winston-Salem’s downtown Benton Convention Center will move forward after the City Council approved a $15.7 million contract with a Chapel Hill contracting firm, which was the sole bidder on the…
At tonight’s meeting (weather permitting) the Winston-Salem City Council will discuss the contract to renovate the downtown Benton Convention Center. Problem is the one bid came in more than $2 million…
At last night’s meeting the Winston-Salem City Council voted unanimously to put five bond proposals totaling $139 million on the Nov. 4 ballot. But the council also approved $60 million…
Winston-Salem Journal reports City Council members are reaching a consensus on a $175m bond package: City administrators recently showed council members scenarios for bond packages that totaled $125 million and…
…And resultant tax increase: Winston-Salem voters will likely be asked this fall to decide whether the city should issue $107.5 million to $182.5 million in bonds to pay for what…
High-end estimate to renovate the downtown Benton Convention Center is $23.9 million. Should the powers that be decide to go for it, City Manager Lee Garrity says it will take…
Quaintance -Weaver Hotels–which owns and operates the Proximity and O.Henry hotels here in G’boro —is taking a pass on the historic R.J. Reynolds Building in downtown Winston-Salem: After nearly a…
The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) Convention 2012 rocked the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem this weekend. Here are some additional highlights of the conference (courtesy of Twitter): MaryBethTeaches:…
The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) Convention 2012 is rockin’ the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem. I suspect that substitute teachers were in short supply around the state. Here…
The Winston-Salem City Council is pondering a $100 million bond for the November ballot: A final list of what the binds would pay for has not been approved, but a…
WXII coverage of Occupy Winston-Salem’s protest of Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s speech at the Benton Convention Center. Note the guy talking about ‘occupying people’s minds.’