How one small city built a second act as a bio hub inside empty cigarette factories
2026-07-24
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines once described the city’s downtown as a “war zone.” In the early 1990s, Winston-Salem faced an identity crisis. When R.J. Reynolds, the tobacco giant that had defined the city for more than a century, shifted its manufacturing elsewhere, it left behind vacant factories, aging buildings andContinue Reading