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Council To Hear Proposal On W-S Culinary Center Incentives

The building is located at 1001 S. Marshall Street, near the Old Salem Visitor's Center,

 

A plan to launch a culinary center in Winston-Salem has passed a key hurdle.

Four companies are behind the $26 million plan to transform an old office facility into a new venture. The Winston-Salem Journal reportsit will be used to help culinary startups and provide some support services as well.

Backers of the venture had originally proposed $4 million in city incentives. Winston-Salem officials told them to sharpen their pencils on the deal, and they came back asking for half that amount. The city's finance committee unanimously endorsed the idea.

It's scheduled to go before the full city council next week.

The building dates back to the 1920s and is just south of downtown. The future of the structure is key to city officials because it's close to such places as the Old Salem Visitors Center.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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