How the town is built
Winston-Salem's property mix is the widest on our book because the city carries every scale at once — major-city density downtown around Fourth Street, major-city institutional footprint across the Wake Forest Baptist Health, Novant Health, and university campuses, and traditional-neighborhood historic density in Old Salem and West End alongside standard suburban residential across the perimeter. Old Salem carries pre-Revolutionary and Federal-era Moravian buildings on narrow lots under some of the strictest preservation we work with. West End, Washington Park, and the other historic districts carry 1890s-through-1930s residential. The Reynolda Road and Buena Vista neighborhoods carry early-twentieth-century estate residential on larger lots. The post-war suburban build-out spreads across the north, west, and south perimeter. Downtown Winston-Salem carries dense commercial around Fourth Street; Innovation Quarter runs biotech-and-research reconstruction volume; Hanes Mall and Stratford Road carry regional retail; and the I-40 south-side strip runs the warehouse and distribution volume.