Piedmont Triad Research Park

Piedmont Triad Research Park (PTRP), located in downtown Winston Salem is a highly interactive, master-planned innovation community developed to support life science and information technology research and development. The PTRP is among the many research parks in the state; others include Research Triangle Park, NC State University's Centennial Campus, Charlotte's University Research Park, and the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis.

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is located in the Park.

Future plans call for an expansion of the park southward to Salem Creek. The project will be centered around a new biomedical facility for Wake Forest University Health Sciences and will also proximate to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem State University, Salem College, Salem Academy and the North Carolina School of the Arts. This expansion would make the park's boundaries: Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, US 52, Salem Avenue, and Salem Creek.

The "Master Plan" for the PTRP organizes the park into three districts:
* North - Research and Mixed-use District
* Central - Biomedical Campus District
* South - Academic and Research District

Facilities developed within all three districts will support a variety of technology-driven commercial and educational enterprises with development responding to topography rather than concealing it. There are a number of historic and architecturally significant buildings throughout the research park area that will be retained because of their contribution to the character and image of the park as well as their reuse potential. Other buildings that have economic value and that contain uses that are consistent with the long-term vision for the Park will also be retained.

References

* [http://www.ptrp.org Piedmont Triad Research Park]
* [http://www.ptrp.org/park/masterplan.asp PTRP Master Plan]